Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Monday, May 10, 2010
Flash Stock Market Crash and the Most Important Wealth-Protection Step You Can Take / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Tom Dyson writes: They're calling it the "Flash Crash"...
With a market cap of $25 billion, Accenture is one of the largest technology, consulting, and outsourcing companies in the world. For a few minutes on Thursday, Accenture's stock price fell to zero. Its stock market value literally vanished.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Europe Shocks the Markets by Firing Bazooka at Sovereign Debt Crisis / Stock-Markets / Articles
French President Sarkozy wasn’t kidding when he promised to shock the markets with a series of measures aimed at containing the sovereign debt crisis. Europe got the bazooka former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson always wanted. German chancellor Merkel and European Central Bank (ECB) President Trichet control the bazooka’s safety. What are the implications for liquidity and solvency issues? The euro and U.S. dollar?
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Does Today’s Stock Market Gap Up Change Everything? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Does this change everything? Maybe and maybe not. It’s too soon to tell. But what we can tell you is that today’s news driven event has averted a full blown meltdown and has now taken the indexes back up to overhead supply and resistance levels. A lot of individual names are also showing this. So that said, we’re not going to say we are out of the woods just yet as we are pushing some resistance.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Global Stock Markets Topping Chart Patterns / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
In our Charts of the Week video this week, we cover last week's plunge and what the S&P 500 chart looks like, and then we review charts globally, which is the focus of our transcription below. The rest of video covers metals like copper and gold, and individual charts, including Apple (AAPL), Cree (CREE), Ford (F), Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF), Intel (INTC), Simon Property (SPG), Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX), Alcoa (AA), and Wal-Mart (WMT).
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Monday, May 10, 2010
"Banging" the U.S. Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
Chicago residents grew up to the sound of local early morning radio rundowns of pork belly futures and other exchange traded commodities. Every trick in the book from manipulation of soybeans to silver has played out in Chicago's trading pits. Every market professional I've talked to in Chicago since Thursday is of the same opinion. It makes no difference whether human beings or computers are front running and manipulating trades. The gyrations in the market last week have the look and feel of classic market manipulation.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Stock Market SPY Projection / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
We were in front of this latest downdraft and also correct in my bullish projections for Gold at the same time. Gold has hit 1210, the SPY has hit sub 113, which was the initial area for a minimum bottom. We have to put aside some of the computer related problems and look at around 110-111 as the recent bottoming areas on the SPY ETF.
Monday, May 10, 2010
The Dangers of Quant Computer Trading Models, Dow's 1000 Point Drop Prime Example / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
"Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it." ~ George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
The initial trigger for the drop in the Dow was probably due to fears that the Greek crisis was going to spread. One could credit this for 300 or maybe even a 400 point drop in the Dow; however, a 1000 point drop is quite another matter.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Stocks Limit Up, VIX Plunges Most on Record, Goldman Sachs Announces Perfect Quarter / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Today in response to an unprecedented $1 trillion Euro aid package (see Shock and Awe Part II; Fed Joins the Battle; Short Squeeze Coming, Then What?), futures opened lock limit up and the NYSE Invoked Rule 48 to Suspend Price Indications Before Open.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
E.U. Bailout To the Rescue Sends Stock Markets Soaring / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Well the cavalry finally arrived and better late than ever. In as dramatic a U-turn as we’ve witnessed in financial markets history the EU goes nuclear with a 3D type of unprecedented measures to remove the threat of global contagion. This is the mother of all aid plans that dwarfs previous leaks and speculation in a show of steadfast political determination to stop the rot.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Stock Market Manic Monday - Just Another Another Trillion Dollars for the Bankster's! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
I mean really - how much money did you lend Greece? Perhaps you wrote Spain a check? France??? Well, you did now! $220Bn of that money came from the IMF and 20% of the IMF’s money comes from the USA as we once again paper over the global financial crisis for another month or two - whatever respite $1,000,000,000,000 buys us these days…Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, May 10, 2010
Investors You need to PROTECT Your Wealth NOW! / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
Was last week’s amazing stock market rout and collapse in the euro currency the beginning of a new era of volatility in the markets?
Could the economy start turning down again? Could real estate prices enter a renewed decline? Could there be more big financial blowups?
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Stock Market Corrections Are Beautiful - Shop At The Gap / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of a rally, big or small. Theoretically, even technically I'm told, corrections adjust equity prices to their actual value or "support levels". In reality, it's much easier than that.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Europe Detonates Nuclear Option, Prints $1 Trillion, Sparks Renewed Market Euphoria / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts
The unprecedented $1 trillion EU bailout and printing money to buy bonds package has led to renewed risk appetite. It has seen equity markets surge in a euphoric buying splurge (European stock markets are up between 4% and 11%) and the euro has strengthened against most currencies (see Cross Currency table). Gold has fallen 0.8% in dollar terms and by more in other currencies and the bouncing euro.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, May 10, 2010
Real Story Behind Last Week’s Stock Market Panic / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Thursday's U.S. stock market trading session qualified as a genuine stock-market "panic." They're rare, fortunately, so they're memorable.
You can say you were there.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Stock Market Crash Aftermath, How Now for the Dow Jones? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
I’m a little gold bug short and stout.
Fill me up, I’ll tell you what it’s all about.
Gold above 1200, smiley face.
All the world stock markets, losing face.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Short-term Trading Forecasts for Stock Market, Gold, and U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
As we all know, last weeks stock market blip/mini crash was very emotional for those of you watching or trading it live. A lot of money changed hands last week and you either lost a bundle or made a bundle…
I did send out some charts and a video on Thursday night about the market crash/recovery if you have not seen it. It’s called “Stock Market Micro Intraday Crash Shows Us Where The Safe Havens Are”.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Robert Prechter's Stocks Bear Market Forecast Update / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The following article is excerpted from Robert Prechter's current issue of the Elliott Wave Theorist. For a limited time, you can Download the full 10-page issue, FREE.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
Stock Market Flash Crash, Fat Finger or "Sell in May and Go Away"? / Stock-Markets / Seasonal Trends
A seasonal stocks timing strategy--“Sell in May and Go Away”--holds that if you shift your holdings out of stocks into bonds and return to the market in November every year, you'll come out way ahead.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
Stock Market Extreme Volatility Continues Below S&P 500 1150...... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
The past few days have been something you don't see very often. 2000 point swings in the Dow each day. It really does blow your mind to watch this type of volatility on consecutive days. Not the normal behavior for sure, and the fact that it's taking place below critical support at 1150 S&P 500 on high volume, doesn't exactly bode well for the bulls short-term at the very least. When markets are ready to change course, we often see violent moves. The side that was enjoying the trend is fighting to keep it alive. The new side taking over will have nothing to do that. Then comes the massive moves on a daily basis that will more than make your head spin. So what can we take from this action overall?
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
SPX Stock Market Index Targets 1230 Trend Reversal Level / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Current Position of the Market
Very Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles are down and if they make their lows when expected, the bear market which started in October 2007 should continue until 2014.
SPX: Long-term trend - Up! We are in a medium-term bull market, which is a corrective move within a long term bear market. This bull market should last until 2011
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