Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, July 08, 2010
Five Reasons Why the S&P 500 Will Hit 1,350 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
Matthew Weinschenk writes: If you’ve talked yourself out of buying stocks recently, set aside your fears right now.
Fear is what kept many investors out of stocks when the bull market started in 2002. Seven years later, investors missed out again when the March 2009 bull market got underway.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Stock Market Cheer From The Jobless Numbers / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
So auf wiedersehen Deutschland it is Core (Netherlands) vs PIIGS (Spain) in the World Cup final this Sunday so one thing is clear we will have a new World Champion the 8th after Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Uruguay and England.
S&P500 had its best session in 6 weeks closing up a whopping +3.13% closing at key technical resistance at 1065 with the Vix much more relaxed: 26.84 (prev. 29.65). Asia followed through with the Nikkei +2.6% while the very rosy Australia employment report provided another boost.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Investing for Deflation: Reader Asks the Question of the Decade! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Last week, I got an interesting email from a reader:Hi J.D. This is my first email to you. I would like to let you know that I am very impressed with your technical analysis which goes in details yet you keep it simple.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Stock Market RSI 30 Bounce On Cue...Now We Learn More.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
It has been occurring for years. When the daily index charts get down to 30 RSI we seemingly always see a strong bounce take place. We hit those magic 30 RSI levels yesterday on the lows with the Nasdaq printing 28 while the Dow and S&P 500 came in with readings at 30. No good news took place overnight, yet our futures started rising slowly but gradually throughout the morning. We opened with a small move higher that soon became a trend day for the bulls as the bears recognized they had nothing left in the tank. They covered their shorts in droves as the market marched higher. Once it became clear that 1040 wouldn't hold any longer the bears threw in the towel.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Stock Market Oversold Rally will Soon be Dead / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Everyone is looking for signs of a continued recovery. Unfortunately there are many misleading signs that trap all but those willing to look beneath the surface to see what is really happening.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Gold, Crude Oil and Stock Market Technical Charts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
It’s been a short but exciting week so far. Investors and traders are have been scratching their heads the past few days as stocks continued to bounce around giving mixed signals. But today was a clear day of short covering from this much oversold market condition.
Below are a few charts showing what I’m currently thinking will unfold in the near future.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
S&P Going to 1500, Mainstream Press MarketWatch Bad Analysis and Journalism / Stock-Markets / Mainstream Media
This is a video taken from MarketWatch of James Altucher who gives his reasons why the S&P500 will hit 1500.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Should Taxpayers Continue to Subsidize Goldman Sachs's Alleged Obscenity? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts
The U.S.'s Financial Reform bill is over 2,000 pages. It includes exemptions and lots of opportunities to create loopholes. Behavior that caused our ongoing global financial crisis is guaranteed to continue, if we don't have swift and effective deterrents.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Max Keiser on Markets, Finance, and Drunk Brokers! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the latest scandals of American newspapers that rebrand torture as 'waterboarding'; Timmy Geithner's unwitting junk bond buyers; and, bailed out American banks financing Mexican drug lords. In the second half of the show, Max talks to lawyer, Luc Saucier, about building a case of obscenity against the banks.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
U.S. Stock Market Sliding Over The Cliff, Crisis Redux Road To Perdition / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Time to awaken to a new dreadful reality. Just like autumn 2008, all over again, the stock market is breaking down in a powerful visible manner, after nothing was fixed with the vast financial structures but much money was spent. If only the USGovt had decided to address the problems instead of funding the myriad liquidity facilities, which by the way serve as a virtual banking system. If only the USGovt had decided to address the problems instead of funding the US Federal Reserve equity reserves, as in excess bank reserve lures. If only the USGovt had decided to address the problems instead of funding the bank preferred stock and bank executive bonuses. If only the USGovt had decided to address the fundamental need for capital formation toward job growth instead of simple extensions of jobless benefits.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Stocks Bear Market Rally Over / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The stock market’s rise since the March 2009 lows was nothing more than a bear market rally. Yes, it was a huge rally, but not out of the realm of similar historical examples.
Low trading volume, still high valuations and lingering economic problems — especially within the real estate sector and the banking system — have been strong arguments for my outlook. And the history of burst real estate bubbles could serve as a blueprint for our current dilemma.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Stock Market Wall Of Worry For Wednesday / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
A disappointed close on Tuesday saw US equities shed most of their early gains. Initially well received bond auctions & syndicated deals from Austria & Spain boosted sentiment post US holidays. The most interesting snippet from the Spanish deal was that the Chinese Central Bank are reported to have been in for Eur 540m. This is potentially very significant as Asian accounts have been big sellers of European peripheral bond markets. This may mark a turning point in sentiment & could result in significant spread tightening as Asian accounts tend to hunt in packs
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
How to Trade the Stock Market Death Cross / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
In today's short video, we look at two important aspects of the market - one is an intraday technique which I will show you how to use to determine where markets will turn, and the other is the infamous "death cross".
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Six Ways to Invest in South Korea, Asia’s Can’t-Miss Stock Market / Stock-Markets / South Korea
Martin Hutchinson writes: With the U.S recovery looking a bit iffy after last week's unemployment report, Japan and Britain battling huge budget problems and Europe in trouble because of the Greek debt crisis, investors have quite naturally shifted their focus to Asia.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Stock Market Disappointing Up-Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
The stock market indices had an up-day today, but it was disappointing. The session started out with a big gap up. The indices ran to overhead resistance near 1765 on the Nasdaq 100 and as high as 1042.50 on the S&P 500. A steady decline ensued early within the first hour that took the indices back down to 1720 on the NDX, 45 points off its high, and 1018 on the SPX. A late rally snapped the indices back to resistance.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Stock Market Retests H&S Neckline, Perfect Setup for Opening Gap Down / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
U.S. stocks gained, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rising from a 10-month low, amid speculation earnings growth will help equities rebound from their lowest valuations since the bull market began in 2009. (LOL!)
The S&P 500 climbed 0.5 percent to 1,028.06 at 4 p.m. in New York after jumping 2 percent in the first hour of trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 57.14 points, or 0.6 percent, to 9,743.62 to snap a seven-day losing streak, its longest since the financial crisis in 2008.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Stock Market Bears Big Test Is Here...... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
So why would I write such a thing with the bears so fully in control of the markets, you ask?
Because this is where the bears keep losing control of the markets. I'll explain.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Stock Market Death Cross, It is 1932 All Over Again / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The Great Depression is a time that stands out as a time of great debate. During the Great Depression, FDR acted nearly exactly as we have in the Great Recession, expanding the size and scope of the government and pushing through new spending bills to incite economic activity. However, as the dust begins to settle from the first boom, investors are again looking for the bust.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Stock Market SP-500, GLD and GDX, Down More or Now Up? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Its mid afternoon Tuesday and the markets are selling off – still. It seems like it will never end. Big red candles on every chart I look. The VIX, the temperature gauge of fear, is rising again and the news headlines are filled with gut wrenching uncertainties about US Municipals, foreign countries that are characterized as ticking time bombs and opinion that we are headed for another Great Depression.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Stock Market Approaches Bear Territory, S&P Near-Term Price Target 900 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The S&P 500 is just about in official bear market territory (conventionally defined as down 20%). While the index closed on the stock market at about 1023 on Friday July 2, the CME Globex E-Mini index futures are at about 1006 at about 10:00 PM on July 5 before the July 6 open. That would place the index down 17.6%, and moving steeply downward.
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