Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Stock Market Sell Signals Abound, VIX Spikes Higher, XLF Says Good-bye to Support / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Again Today on Financial Overhaul Bill - The U.S. Senate will take a second vote today on Democrats’ effort to overcome Republican objections and begin debate on financial-overhaul legislation.
“What are you afraid of?” Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said to Republicans on the Senate floor today, arguing that the proposal can be amended during debate. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, responded by saying, “This bill isn’t ready” and that more negotiations are needed.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Stock Market Decisive Down Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
The stock market indices had a decisively negative session today, gapping down from the get-go, snapping back in an early rally try but failing at resistance and then rolling over hard. By mid-day they bounced to test resistance once again, but failed again, and then rolled over just as hard in the afternoon.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Stock Market Breaks Lower, Most 20-Day EMA's Gone...50's On Deck... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Only the Nasdaq out of all of the major index charts is now still above its 20-day exponential moving average. It's above by just a few points thus its hanging by a thread. Not likely to hold. The S&P 500, Dow and total market, the WLSH, all lost their 20-day exponential moving averages today and did so on solid volume and a very poor advance decline line. The selling was real. The confluence of overbought daily and weekly charts across the board along with negative divergences on the daily charts and finally some poor sentiment conditions took over today. It was about time. The market was more than due for a beating but simply refused to sell off day after day.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
MortiES' EOD Analysis, Stock Market Entering Dangerous Ground! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
This is the article and chart my premium subscribers received this evening. I always get myself in trouble when I start finding triangles forming. This is not the first time a triangle failed and the bottom fell out of the market. Seeing it twice will make me more alert to this possibility in the future.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Financial Markets React to Germany Disappointing Greece Again / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
In a session yesterday that was largely devoid of economic data, most of the focus was again on Europe’s fiscally troubled sovereigns. Whilst ECB President Trichet noted that he was confident that negotiations on the Greek fiscal package would be “concluded soon and rightly”, Greek 2-year bond yields surged 294bps to 13.16% with the 10-year yield up 91bps to 9.56%. Markets were a little disconcerted by a statement made by German Chancellor Merkel, who faces a state election on 9 May.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Early Corporate Earnings Season Indicators Looking Good … / Stock-Markets / Corporate Earnings
Yet another earnings season is upon us, and so far things are looking good.
For example, through the middle of last week about 85 stocks in the S&P 500 (worth 26 percent of the index’s total value) had reported their results. And all told, 82 percent of those companies had beaten Wall Street’s estimates. Their aggregate results also represented a 5 percent gain over results during the same quarter last year.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Stock Market Topping Action Start of the Great Reversal / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
(MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks wavered Monday, with upbeat results from Caterpillar Inc. and Whirlpool Corp. boosting confidence, but with the government's plan to begin divesting itself of Citigroup Inc. weighing on financials.
"The markets have been doing just about what they're supposed to do, which is if the economic numbers are better than forecast, or if earnings are better than forecast, then the market should go up," said Hugh Johnson, chairman of Johnson Illington Advisors. "Valuation is starting to become an issue. The going is getting tougher, although that doesn't mean we're not going to continue to go up," he added.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Stock Market Churning Near Target Measurment... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
One thing about those inverse head and shoulder patterns that have taken months to form is that they often make their exact measurements or at least get within one percent of that measurement over time. We have the Nasdaq with a head at 2100 and shoulders at 2325. This measures 225 points or 2550. Today's high was 2335 and that's less than one percent away from full measurement. Not bad at all. We may still get to 2350, but we came very close and that may be close enough. The problem from here being we are so darn violently overbought on those daily charts, not to mention being overbought on the weekly charts as well.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Stock Market Recovery Rally Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
How creative do we have to be after eight consecutive weeks of a positive market to make this week more interesting than the last eight? Earnings continue to be a bit better than expectations, Greece is still trying to get funded and the economy is still bumping along. So with the so-so backdrop, why does the market continue to march higher? It is the only game in town! Short-term interest rates continue to be held near zero (we’ll hear more this week) as the Fed worries about the frailty of the economic recovery. Inflation, as reported last week, remains high, however much of the gain is in food/energy prices (the stuff we never buy!).
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Mega Corporate Earnings Monday, 1000 Reports This Week! / Stock-Markets / Corporate Earnings
What a crazy week this is going to be!
Pre-Market we’re hearing from BLK, CAT (are we building stuff?), EXP, HTZ, HUM, LO, TUES and TZOO and later we will hear from BSX, CHH, OLN, RSH, RCII, TXN (major) and my "friendbuddypal" Cramer’s TSCM (if they are not delayed). Revenues at The Street have crept back up this year in a recovery that pretty much mirrors the market.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Stock Markets Focus On Corporate Earnings / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
US stocks advanced Friday, extending the Dow’s longest weekly winning streak in six years. American Express advanced 2.7% on earnings that beat analysts’ estimates, and Merck surged 5% as the drugmaker said the US health-care overhaul won’t hurt long-term growth. Energy companies rallied as the EUR/USD strengthened for the first time in seven days.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
No End In Sight For Stocks Bull Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
Before getting to the daily trends and what is likely now to unfold over the next few weeks I think it is important to point out to you that the longer term trend (one year plus+) for the stock market is strengthening. In fact there is no end in sight for this bull market.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Stocks Led by Apple On a Hot Bull Run No Investor Should Miss / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Jon D. Markman writes: Stocks flipped out late Friday morning following an announcement of Greece's decision to seek help from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. But by the end of the session, cooler heads began to prevail and the major indexes ended well into the black, continuing the bull run.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq all closed about 1.1% lower for the session, but the week's results were a lot better: flat for the Dow and S&P 500, up 0.75% for the S&P Midcap 400 and up 1.7% for the S&P Smallcap 600.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Why Does This Stock Market Rally Give Me the Creeps? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
I’m sorry, I am trying so hard to get bullish but it’s not working…
My only solution is to, as we often joke, switch of my brain and stop reading the news (listening to it is great as everything is coming up roses in TV-land) and ignore the now-exposed shenanigans on Wall Street (why should I worry about my investments just because the people running the game are up on fraud charges) and for goodness sakes don’t even look at something as depressing as "The Economic Elite vs. the People of the United States of America," neither Parts 1-3 or Parts 4-6 because that can lead to thinking and thinking makes it REALLY hard to go to sleep at night with your money riding on the top of an 80% market while gold is trading at $1,150 an ounce because of overwhelming global instability and a total lack of faith in the global financial markets.
Monday, April 26, 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
Monday, April 26, 2010
MortiES Stock Market Analysis, SPX Chop Time / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
This is the article and chart my premium subscribers received this weekend: The market appears to be in a period of consolidation. I called it a triangle and a Wave 4 in my last posts. The only difference in my call for this weekend is that I am calling it a “running” triangle” and W4. You can see an illustration of the running triangle on p. 50 of EWP.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Nasdaq Tek Stock NDX at 2050! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
I have to go many posts back to find the first time I mentioned 2050 area as a resistance, and the 1970-2050 range as an active range.
And it seems like just yesterday when I said that the move out of Feb low looked more and more like the move out of July low and might destroy the bears and leave many bulls behind waiting for a pullback.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Indian Stock market Detailed Technical Analysis with Chart Studies / Stock-Markets / India
Previous Week: Last Week Nifty showed good strength as it held on it's own. When looking at stocks or indices everyone looks at the same chart but with different conclusions and perspectives. Everyone believes that the support/resistance levels would be different. But what eventually works out is anybody's guess. As you can see from Daily chart of nifty below, Nifty nicely tagged the Lower Bollinger Band and found solid support there.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Stocks Bull Market Continues as Deflationists Remain Stuck in Debt Deleveraging Deflation / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The stocks (stealth) bull market put in a new high with the Dow hitting 11,205 right at the end of the week after range trading between 11,150 and 11,000 for most of the week.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Racing Stock Market Bulls, Shanghai vs. Wall Street / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
new symbol of China's market ambitions: It is getting its own charging bull sculpture for its Shanghai Stock Exchange, similar to the one in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
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