Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The Hottest Places to Invest in 2010 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: For global investors, 2010 is shaping up to be a year with two very distinct economic outlooks.
In the first "half," which is actually likely to end in early September, investors can expect a continued escalation in commodity prices, generally bullish stock markets and an ongoing focus on powerful monetary and fiscal "stimulus" initiatives. In the second "half," reality will reassert itself, and investors will find the going tough in many markets.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Warning, The Stock Market Is Extremely Overvalued Right Now / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: DailyWealth
Tom Dyson writes: Andrew Smithers is a world expert in stock market valuation...
Smithers is an "econometrician." He studies stock market statistics going back more than 100 years and creates indicators from these statistics to judge whether the stock market is cheap or expensive. His two favorite valuation indicators are named the "CAPE" and the "q."
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Stock Market Late Rally Erases Losses / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices managed to have a very strong late run to wipe out early losses and end up in the plus column.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Stock Market Sentiment. What A Difference A Day Makes.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
It is amazing how fast things can change. Yesterday seemed so gloom and doom and now, after today's action, things look much better. When you're in a trading range such as we are, and it's tough for sure, you have to keep perspective on the up as well as the down days. The up days may give a bit too much optimism, yet, the down days do the same in reverse. Yesterday got a lot of folks very bearish. The emotion of a very difficult consolidation.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Stock Market Investing Too Late to Buy, Too Early to Sell / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Q1_Publishing
It can be a frustrating time for investors. Stocks have had a great run, but the rally is cooling. The run in real assets – gold, oil, and other commodities – is taking a much anticipated breather.
Corporate and government bonds are, at best, fully valued. At worst, they’re significantly overvalued.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Hedge Fund Titan John Paulson Bullish on Bonds and Equities, Inflation Concerns Remain / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Trader_Mark
John Paulson... super bull? Goodness. To some degree I find "whale watching" a bit overrated, but after being the most obvious winner of the mortgage meltdown, and then piling into gold ahead of a huge run ... Paulson's moves are watched by the investment world very closely.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Stock and Financial Market Forecasts 2009 Awards Vote / Stock-Markets / Market Oracle Analysts
By: site_admin
Dear Reader
As 2009 draws to an end, you have the opportunity to help us award authors who's market and economic judgment calls for 2009 hit the nail on the head. Our aim is to present Master Forecaster Awards to the Top authors voted as the most accurate forecasters of 2009. Voting remains open until the end of of December.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
The Secrets to Successful Market Investment Entry and Exit Timing / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Many so-called experts would have you believe that it's impossible to "time" the markets. That's just not true. There's actually a secret to market timing. It's not just a matter of the economy. It's a matter of how perception and collective psychology gauge the risk of realizing a real profit - doing so with shifting economic conditions as the market's backdrop.
This works for all the markets, including stocks, bonds, commodities, precious metals and currencies.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
S&P Stock Market Trend Analysis / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: ForexPros
The following is a predominantly technical analysis view of what to expect to in the stock market in the upcoming. We will use the S&P 500 as our reflection of the market. This can be used by day traders, swing traders or investor to gain insight into what is unfolding, what to expect and what to look for.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Stock Market Reversal At The Top....Consolidation Is Alive!!! / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
I know today feels bad. It looks bad as well. A nice rolling top now in place with those MACD's and stochastics crossing and pointing lower. Every reason to believe, if you're a bear at heart, that the end has arrived for this rally. That may well be the case but by no means is that the case with what we have at today's close.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Stock Market Indices Close Moderately Lower / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets opened lower and despite a strong snapback rally in the morning rolled over in the afternoon and closed moderately lower today.
The day started out with a gap lower. They rallied back with a 3-wave rally, with the third leg of the wave being a very sharp one, but overhead resistance at the declining tops lines prevailed. They then moved steadily lower in an orderly fashion for the rest of the session, closing not far off the session lows on the S&P 500, but substantially above them on Nasdaq 100.
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
What “Intrinsic Value” Really Means in Inflation Proof Investing / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Analysts, financial planners and so called “experts” tout a variety of anti-inflation investments, ranging from commodities like oil and coal to sophisticated instruments like inflation-protected treasuries and annuities. Although all these products may seem to be inflation-proof on paper, none have the intrinsic value of gold, silver or any other precious metals.
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Shanghai’s Stock Market Not A Bubble, SSE Targets 4000 / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Andrew_Butter
The talk about a bubble in China that was all over the place in July and August appears to be subsiding. I confess I know practically nothing about China. But what I know has always made me wary, it still does.
What I bring to the debate is simply that I claim to know something about bubbles, and although many people think I am a simple minded village idiot, my initial attempts at applying my models to the real world did at least give the right answer (the model predicted in January that the S&P 500 would bottom at 675 and that the rally would go up at least until the DOW hit 10,000).
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Good News to Bring Bad News Bears For Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Captain_Hook
The title of this piece actually says it all if you have been following our work for any length of time. The understanding here is because our faulty and fraudulent markets are based more on speculator betting practices rather than fundamentals, regularly assaulting the sensibilities of unwary participants, the majority of time a steady flow of bad news actually supports stocks, not the opposite as most straight forward thinking people would assume. How can this be? As mentioned above, for the majority of time bad news causes most speculators to naturally be bearish, which in turn unfortunately causes them to run out and buy puts or bear funds on stocks, who in turn buy puts on your behalf.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Stock Market and Gold Crash, Are We About to Repeat 2008? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Graham_Summers
A few weeks ago on November 10, I wrote an article Three Reasons Gold Might be Making a Head Fake.
In it, I noted that Gold’s recent rally was largely due to Dollar devaluation (Gold had failed to hit new highs in other world currencies) as well as several other factors that disconfirmed the precious metal’s explosive rise. I wrote:
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Monday, December 07, 2009
Stock Market Another Day Of Nothing..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
And that's what we have basically every single day. The hardest part being is how difficult it is to short or go long stocks. Stocks set up to fall blast higher and stocks set up to soar fall apart. That's pretty much an every day occurrence. The market is getting lots of good economic news but this 1100 area is not allowing the market to move further along. Any time we get a bit over 1100, no matter what good news hits, it falls back from the breakout zone.
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Monday, December 07, 2009
Stock Market Sloppy Way to Start the Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets had a sloppy session to start the week and ended mixed. The day started out with a little bit of firmness. They reached resistance at 1110-11 on the S&P 500 and 798-800 on the Nasdaq 100, but were unable to punch through. Then they backed off and retested the lows on 2-3 occasions, narrowed and got very quiet mid-morning and then tried to rally around mid-day. When the indices failed to break through, they rolled over hard in early to mid afternoon and then over the last hour or so bounced back in what appeared to be bear-flag consolidations.
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Monday, December 07, 2009
Interesting Longer Term Bets Developing in Currency, Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Trader_Mark
A couple of very interestng stories on Bloomberg today, regarding some long term directional bets by what I assume to be big players. Effectively it's the same "dollar inverse" trade but in reverse ...keep in mind dollar down = stock market up is not the traditional relationship, it's just something that has taken a life of its own as Ben Bernanke has provided an unlimited fire hose of US dollars to make us all feel better via inflated asset values. There are some fascinating tidbits in these stories.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Top Sentiment Expert Says Short the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: DailyWealth
Tom Dyson
writes: Jason Goepfert is America's leading expert on stock market sentiment...
Sentiment shows you how the majority of investors are positioned in a market. Most of the time, it's useless information. Bulls and bears will be roughly balanced and there won't be any opportunity.
Monday, December 07, 2009
U.S. Dollar Breakout Would Impact Hard on Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Commodities / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Douglas_V._Gnazzo
First up is the daily $USD chart. The dollar’s relentless fall is clearly evident. Price has broken above its downward sloping trend line, and is presently attempting to clear horizontal resistance marked by the yellow band.
MACD has made a positive crossover and the histograms have moved into positive territory as well. RSI has turned up above 50 (55). The indicators look promising, but the dollar has a habit of disappointing.
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