Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Stock Market Break of S&P 1044 Implications / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Toby_Connor
Let me start off by pointing out that we did indeed break below the yearly cycle low yesterday.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Stocks Bounce as LIBOR Stabilizes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Yesterday was a game of two halves. An early rout had seen stocks plunge, with the Dow down 3.1% and below the psychological 10k level. Causes include fears of the Korean crisis spinning out of control , Spanish banking woes & funding concerns for financials in general due to the dramatic rise in USD Libor. Put that lot together and you have an indigestible mix.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Stock Market Topping Continues, Beware of Any Short-Term Rallies! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Claus_Vogt
Things have changed rather quickly for the stock market. Up until two weeks ago it was very difficult for a technical analyst to make a bearish argument. All over the world the big indexes were trending upwards, exhibiting no signs of technical weakness.
Trend-following indicators were rising, too. And indicators based on market breadth, like the advance-decline line and the number of stocks making 52-week highs or lows, were healthy. Last but not least the chart patterns showed no signs of deterioration.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Financial Reform Bill Failure, Gordon Gekko Is Alive and Well / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Tony_Sagami
I don’t go to the movies often, but I have a weakness for macho, action films so I went to see the new Robin Hood with Russell Crowe. It was a great movie, but what really caught my attention were the previews before the feature presentation.
What caught my attention was the trailer for Wall Street 2 and the return of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Stock Market Sell in May But Don’t Go Away / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: If you embrace the old Wall Street adage "Sell in May and Go Away" as an investing strategy, you could end up with a bad case of the U.S. stock market summer blues, a new research study has found.
That concept is based on the notion that the May-to-November span provides a weak environment for U.S. stock market investors. According to Jon Markman, a best-selling author and contributing writer to Money Morning, that viewpoint started gaining traction in late April. And why not? The major U.S. indexes were already up a lot more than anyone expected, making that a seemingly convenient point to take profits.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Jim Rogers Says Stocks Bear Market is Not Over / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Videos
Jim Rogers Says the stocks bear market is not over, in a discussion with Dan Mangru on the financial reform bill, Fed incompetence and what investors should do.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Stock Market Double Bottom Exhaustion...Short-term Only... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The bulls were up against it big time early today with the futures crushed and yet another gap down setting up in the pattern. Another gap was not what the bulls wanted to see, especially since the S&P 500 was already so far from its 200-day exponential moving average all the way up at 1101. If you get too far way it allows for the trailing 20-day exponential moving average to catch up very rapidly and that's also very bad news for the bulls. The 20-day was at 1164 a week ago but is now all the way down to 1128, only a drop more than 2% from crossing the 200's. If the 20's cross below the 200's it's very negative for the bulls.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Robert Prechter On Schedule for a Very Long Stocks Bear Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: EWI
Robert Prechter discussed the recent global sell-off that has sent all major U.S. averages 10% below their 2010 highs with Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker host Aaron Task on May 20, 2010. Prechter says that the current climate shows that "we're in a wave of recognition" where the fundamentals are catching up to the technicals and that it's time to prepare for a "long way down."
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Stock Markets Hit by Spanish Woes, Korea And Soaring USD LIBOR / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Back into crisis mode courtesy of Korean sabre rattling, Spanish banking woes & skyrocketing USD inter bank rates. This toxic mix dragged down US stocks Monday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its lowest level in three months. Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase declined 3.5% plus to lead losses on the Dow, while Wells Fargo shed 4.7% after being downgraded over at Goldman Sachs.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Stock Market Near-term Selling Pressure Near Exhaustion? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
If the Volatility Index (VIX) versus S&P 500 (SPX) pattern analysis has any merit, then this morning it should be indicating that the spike to new lows in the SPX is eliciting increasing levels of fear, represented by a spike to new highs in the VIX. This is NOT the case so far today.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Global Stock Markets Co-ordinated 2.5% Tuesday Drop / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
We failed to retake 10,200 yesterday.We failed to retake 1,100 on the S&P and we failed our 2,225 line on the Nasdaq and that means we’ll be testing that 630 line on the Russell and, if they don’t hold, I’ll be sending a box of chocolates to CNBC to apologize for calling them a bunch of dangerous morons when they were telling their viewers to panic and liquidate their portfolios on Friday afternoon. Today, on their web-site, CNBC has quite the collection of headline articles including: Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Text Book Ending of a Substantial Bear Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Garry_Abeshouse
The end of the dream is not the end of the world, even though it may at times seem that way.
If I have learned one thing about financial markets over the last 40 years or so, it’s that large upward price moves often fail to relate to the realities of the real world. A human civilization based upon limitless consumption, fueled by an endless supply of credit in an environment of limited resources cannot go on forever. At some time it must end. In many ways this is really what the GFC is all about. The financial markets meltdown is merely a symptom of the disease – not the disease itself. This should never be forgotten.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Eurozone Debt Contagion Telling Us It’s Time to Buy Dividend Stocks, REITS and MLPs / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: With the escalating Eurozone-debt-contagion fears of recent weeks, a significant shift is taking place in the global stock-and-bond markets.
The powerful bull cycle that grew out of the early March 2009 market lows - the quickest and strongest stock-market rebound of the past 50 years - has been losing some of its youthful verve as it matures. That means we can expect the pace of gains to moderate as asset classes (stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities) begin to differentiate themselves.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Why Middle-Class America Is About to Get Slaughtered / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: DailyWealth
Tom Dyson writes: I spoke to a broker at Fidelity a few weeks ago. At the time, the stock market was rising almost every day. There was so much optimism in the marketplace it was almost surreal.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
F.I.R.E. and F.E.A.R. In the NEW Economy / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Brian_M_Thiesen
Well here we go. It seems that it is possible some very interesting times may be upon us, although not new but interesting for sure.The new FEAR (F&$% Everything And RUN) scenario may be playing out before our eyes and may grow quite a bit stronger in the coming days weeks and months.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Marc Faber Says Stock Market Could Fall by a Further 15% / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Videos
Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom reports, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt about the outlook for U.S. stocks.
Faber says global stocks are in a "correction period" and believes the Standard & Poor's 500 Index could decline another 10-15 percent. He also discusses the violence in Thailand.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Copper and Canaries, Signs of Panic Brewing in World Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Brian_Bloom
The evidence suggests that the world’s markets may be on the edge of panic.
In particular, the ratio of the gold price/commodities index is manifesting a chart pattern known as a “double top”. Based on historical experience with this type of formation it is very likely that, if the old top is breached, we will see the gold price shooting up relative to commodity prices which, in turn, will likely be falling.&
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Why We Hate ETFs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: David_Grandey
Over the last 5 months we’ve been talking about buying the dips and selling the rips which up until recently has been the buzz. However we can now replace that with:
“Buy in the face of fear and sell into all rallies.”
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
After the Crisis: Planning a New Financial Structure, Learning from the Bank of Dad / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: John_Mauldin
This week we visit an essay from an old friend of Outside the Box, Paul McCulley, the Managing Directpr of PIMCO. This is a speech he did at the Minsky Conference sponsored (I believe) by the Levy Institute. It was also the same speech he gave at my conference mid-April that was quite well received.
Essentially Paul argues that the cause of the recent crisis was the creation of the Shadow Banking System outside the purview of regulation. And while he did not use the line in this speech, he did at my conference, which is one of the truly great lines I have heard this year.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Stock Market Indices Roll Over, Repelled by Resistance / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices started out the day with firm action, backed off, held support, and then ran to the session highs early in the morning. By midday they retested again and again key overhead resistance at 1840 on the Nasdaq 100 and 1090 on the S&P 500, but couldn't get through and began a slow rollover in the afternoon. In the last 15 minutes that accelerated down into the session lows near key support, particularly on the S&P 500.
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