Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Stock and Commodity Market Investors Groundhog Daze / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Bob_Clark
February 2 is Groundhog Day. The question is, with this sell off in the markets will consumers see their debt shadows and go back into hibernation. As the stimulus has started to dry up, economic numbers are already starting to weaken. The question brings to mind the Bill Murray movie of the same name. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Catching a Stock Market Falling Knife / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Lynn_T
Catch a Falling Knife
Never a smart idea.
The market has moved down for the past three weeks. Yes, three weeks the market has been moving lower. What do we do? Well, we certainly don’t catch a falling knife. For now we sit tight and see if my intra-week indicator makes a shift from its cash position.
Monday, February 01, 2010
Stock Market Bears Making Room for the Bulls / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Paul_J_Nolte
Last weekend in the northern climes, a whiff of spring could be felt as temperatures rose to levels well above the norms for late January. Unfortunately, we were quickly reminded that winter still holds serve as temperatures quickly dropped to well below normal. Could the ’09 rally be nothing more than a winter reprieve and the ushering in of the ’10 calendar year will ultimately remind us that the bear market is still very much with us? Ok, a bit dramatic, however the past week saw the bullish equity camp decline rapidly as prices fell below their December lows, which historically does not auger well for the remainder of ’10.
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Monday, February 01, 2010
The Investment Grade Value Stock Index Bargain Stock Monitor / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Steve_Selengut
The Investment Grade Value Stock Index "Bargain Stock Monitor" clearly reflects the profit taking that hit the market late in January--- you and I have been harvesting our gains all along though. Right?
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Monday, February 01, 2010
If China Sneezes, Wall Street Will Catch A Cold / Stock-Markets / Articles
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Investors who needed proof of China's increased importance in the post-financial-crisis world only have to look at the nervousness of recent weeks to get a glimpse of the future.
When U.S. stocks fell sharply late Friday, they capped off a harrowing 10-day span that has seen the broad U.S. market benchmarks drop by nearly 7%. Emerging markets are down 9%. Not surprisingly, investor fear has sent volatility rocketing 40% - the largest two-week increase since the global financial crisis went nuclear back in October 2008.
Monday, February 01, 2010
Stock Market Trading System on 75% Buy Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Angelo_Campione
General Commentary: The system for the SPY is on a Buy signal 75%
The system continues to remain on the long side. It’s not easy being positioned on one side when the market is moving against that and from time to time this will happen.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Stock Market Correction Could be the Start of Something Bigger / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles have taken over and if they make their lows when expected, the bear market which started in October 2007 should continue until 2014. This would imply that lower prices lie ahead. As illustrated by the current market performance, this will not be a straight-down decline, but will consist of a series of intermediate-term rallies and declines until we have reached the low point.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Stock Market Sharp Sell-Off Develops Into A Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Paul_Lamont
“’What he really needs now is a recovery strategy. Statistically, it's been proven that big lottery winners wind up poor in a relatively short time unless they took the annuity payment,’ said financial analyst Brian Kronenberger, who has worked with a number of lottery winners.”
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Stock Market Dumb Money Still Bullish Despite 7% Sell Off / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Guy_Lerner
From the highs three weeks ago to the lows of this past week, the S&P500 has slid about 7%. This is not as great as the mid- June to mid- July, 2009 swoon, which saw the S&P500 loose about 10%. So maybe investors are right in not being too concerned about the pace of the current downdraft, and when looking at the sentiment indicators this week, that is exactly what we see: complacency amongst the "dumb money" and indifference by the "smart money". Despite any short term gains over the next week, this still is not a high reward, low risk investing environment.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The 1% Stock Market Crash, a week in review / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The week saw Tory Bliar appear in front of Britain's amateur Iraq War Inquiry to pound his fist on the table for war without end as he justified lying to the country on the reasons for the Iraq War and subsequent 200k+ deaths, from the 45 minute lie, to the WMD lie, right through to regime change lie on top of the Sept 11th excuse for war, despite the fundamental and absolute fact that it was the Saudi's that flew the planes into the twin towers and not Iraqi's!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Stock Market Trend Correction / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Peter_Navarro
The U.S. markets are in a major correction. If you see any bubblehead portfolio manager on TV telling you this is a great buying opportunity, know that this man/woman is merely a gambler rather than an intelligent speculator. For the foreseeable future, the market is a roulette wheel. Until the dust clears – that is, until market participants figure out the direction of the economy -- this is a good time to be in cash (and non-cyclicals like biotech).
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Stock Market Investors Are Last to Get the Return of Risk Aversion / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Graham_Summers
I’ve been pounding the table about what I think is coming down the pike for months now. Rather than producing another editorial heavy essay, I thought today we’d let the market dictate what’s going on.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
A Brief Stocks Market Rally Update / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Tim_Wood
In late December and early January as the market was performing its levitation act to lure as many people into the market as it could, I had a number of phone calls from people who had “missed the rally” and were calling seriously questioning my analysis. I had been telling subscribers that the price action in December and January was an ending move of the current intermediate-term cycle and not a beginning move with a new cycle.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Stock Market Correction Or Bear Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
This is now the question we need to ponder and decide which way this market is headed. There are cases to be made for both and I will discuss that later on. Yesterday I spoke about how we had our first down trend confirmed when we broke down out of a bear flag for the first time in one year. Three nasty days down that went lateral for four to five days and then broke yesterday, especially on the QQQQ's or the etf proxy for the Ndx 100. Today was a continuation of that down move after a strong gap up on an artificially induced GDP at over 5% that was created by an interfering Government that simply won't allow things to play out as they should naturally. They simply prolong things but that's for another time.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Stock Market Plunges Through Thin Ice On Fake U.S. Economy GDP Growth Numbers? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The economy in the U.S. expanded in the fourth quarter at the fastest pace in six years as factories cranked up assembly lines and companies increased investment in equipment and software.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Stock Market Unfinished Business From 2009 For 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Doug_Wakefield
In March 2009, the Dow bottomed at 6470 and the S&P 500 hit a low of 666. On January 19th we released a report titled, Desperation, which – if this nascent decline continues – will mark the top in the markets, with the Dow at 10,729 and the S&P 500 basically triple-topping on the 11th, 14th, and 19th at 1150. So, in less than one year’s time, the Dow gained 66 percent while the S&P 500 gained 73 percent. And, these numbers are as dubious as they are amazing.
Friday, January 29, 2010
The Coming Debt Cataclysm, Some Investment Opportunities & Defences / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Something is Rotten is the State of Denmark” - Hamlet, 1.4 William Shakespeare
“Last week we interviewed G. Edwin Griffin, author of the Creature from Jekyll Island. Ed explained that the Federal Reserve has been created to preserve the interests of the bankers. Gold is an enemy of the Fed because, when it is demanded as money, it restricts their ability to re-allocate wealth from the people who create it, the miners, manufacturers, farmers and inventors, to themselves as they create fiat money out of thin air.”
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Friday, January 29, 2010
The China Google Controversy and the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Clif_Droke
The news spotlight recently was stolen by Google, the Internet search engine giant. A statement issued by Google a couple of weeks ago was greeted by dismay on Wall Street as shares retreated in response to the company’s announcement that it no longer supports China’s censoring of searches that take place on the Google platform. China has defended its extensive censorship after Google threatened to withdraw from the country.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 29, 2010
Why the Stock Market Has Fallen, Battle of the Titans, JP Morgan Versus Goldman Sachs / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Ellen_Brown
We are witnessing an epic battle between two banking giants, JP Morgan Chase (Paul Volcker) and Goldman Sachs (Geithner/Summers/Rubin). Left strewn on the battleground could be your pension fund and 401K.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Retracement Not Reversal in S&P Stocks Index / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
WEEKLY CHART
The sell-off has been brisk with a sharp increase in volatility.
But in the context of the bull run from the beginning of 2009 it has yet to be extensive.
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