Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
If Leveraged Buybacks, Why Not Leveraged Dividends? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
The equity investing community seems to get giddy when it hears the words “stock buyback.” And why not if the stock is being bought back out of current profits? But what if the corporation is increasing its debt to fund its stock buybacks? The chart below suggests that is what is occurring now and what occurred in the late 1980s and late 1990s. The red bars in the chart represent the dollar amount of the net issuance of equities of nonfinancial corporations. Readings below zero, which predominate, signify the net “retirement” of equities.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
MPTrader - Stock Market Bulls Not Dead.... Yet / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Inability of the Q's (Nasdaq: QQQQ) to follow-through to the downside after breaking beneath two prior pullback lows at 49.74 and 49.64 was my first indication that the correction off of last Friday's high might be complete. Secondly, the ease with which the Q's recovered half of today's early loss was another clue that the bulls are not dead…yet, and that a new upleg likely is underway that should propel prices to new highs.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
China's Earth-Shattering Growth News / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes: Last week, I told you how typhoon Man-yi, which forced more than 30,000 people from their homes in southwestern Japan, completely disrupted our travel plans.
Then, once we arrived in Nagano, an earthquake shook our room at the Saihokukan Hotel! The tremors were so powerful that they damaged the tracks on the Nagano-Dentetsu train line.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
MPTrader - Stock Market Recovery Ended in the S&P Index? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Based on the intraday pattern, the S&P 500 Depository Receipts (AMEX: SPY) looks like it ended the recovery rally off of Friday's low (152.84) at this afternoon's high of 154.72 and has turned down. The extent and form of this pullback should reveal to us if the SPY started a new upleg at Friday's low or merely ended the first part of a larger corrective process.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Investment Flash: Ah, The Summer of 1929! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Paul_Lamont
“As the advertisements in the Ladies Home Journal declare, “This is a sun-worshipping year….all the world has gone in for sun-tan.” ( Since Yesterday by Fredrick Lewis Allen.) The July 6 th 1929 cover of The Saturday Evening Post would also agree:Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Global Megatrends and Among all the successes we've enjoyed together ... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: Among all the successes we've enjoyed together in recent years, one of the most gratifying to me has been the outpouring of positive feedback regarding my online video briefing.
Now, I'm doing two things:
First, I'm getting ready to take advantage of the minor pullback we saw last week in China and other foreign markets — to take action!
And second, I'm providing the transcript of the video for your review …
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Market Update - Trading The Charts / Stock-Markets / Technical Analysis
By: Dominick
It's no secret that I've been getting closer and closer to calling a major top while maintaining the unbiased flexibility to trade both sides of the market as we approach our final destination. We've been perfectly cautious of overextended rallies, while also avoiding panic on the dips and buying bottoms. IF I could have my way from here, I would want to see this market attempt one more screaming rally to just above its recent highs and, at that point, if all things remained the same, I'd be willing to call for a substantial turn, not only in the stock indices, but in several other major markets.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Trouble in Hedgefundistan: “Its gonna get a lot worse” / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch
By: Mike_Whitney
Two columns of black smoke can be seen rising over Wall Street and disappearing into the ice-blue New York sky.Terrorism?
Not quite. The plumes of smoke are all that's left of two major hedge funds which blew up just weeks ago leaving nothing behind but a few smoldering embers and a mound of black soot.
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
More Stock Markets Selling Pressure Ahead Next Week / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Mike_Paulenoff
With just an hour remaining in the session on Friday, I told subscribers to our Web site I was doubtful about the correction having ended, as I noticed the following:
Financial powerhouse Goldman Sachs (GS) remained down about 2.5% for the session, and more importantly, below its 200 DMA (208.31)...
Friday, July 20, 2007
An Unwelcome Guest Has Appeared At Our Bull Market Party / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The punchbowl has been refilled several times. The party seems to be going strong. But, what is this? An unwanted guest has walked in and the punchbowl is doesn't look as full as it had just a while ago. Who is this unwanted guest? His name is Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO). CDO normally lives on the other side of the tracks, so what is he doing at your party?Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, July 20, 2007
MPTrader - Has Stock Market Correction Ended? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
With just over an hour remaining in today's session, I am wondering if a correction in the major equity market ETF's has ended, and if a new upleg is in its infancy. But I notice that financial powerhouse Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) remains down about 2.5% for the session, and more importantly, remains below its 200 DMA (208.31). I see that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is still down 5% for the session, having bounced off of its 50 DMA (510.81) this AM.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, July 20, 2007
The S&P Stock Market Index Vibrating At Critical Mass / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Joseph_Russo
Nearly a year ago, back in September of 2006, we shared a keen and timely awareness as The Dow Approached Critical Mass . Save for the miserable comparative retracement performance from the tech-sector off the 2002 lows, numerous equity indices have since broken decisively to the upside above their previous historic highs. The S&P is one of the last to arrive.
The mother of all benchmarks is on the hot-seat
As we pen this market update, the S&P has yet to close above 1553.11. Perhaps it will do so by today – perhaps not.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Subprime Lenders Fallout - It's all hitting the fan! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Money_and_Markets
Mike Larson writes: It's all hitting the fan — right here, right now! The two Bear Stearns (BSC) hedge funds that Martin told you about in late June have reportedly been all but vaporized. Wiped out!
According to a July 18 New York Times story,
"Bear Stearns told clients in its two battered hedge funds late yesterday that their investments, worth an estimated $1.5 billion at the end of 2006, are almost entirely gone. In phone calls to anxious investors, Bear Stearns brokers reported yesterday that May and June had been devastating months for the portfolios.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Investors – Will you be a Winner or Loser? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Dudley_Baker
In the current markets seems all investors, virtually in the world, are being rewarded with gains in their portfolios.
The U.S. markets as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW) and the S&P 500 continue to make new highs as do most of the foreign stock markets, China, Brazil, Mexico, etc.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Investing - Steer clear of the US. Stock Market; Look to Asia! / Stock-Markets / Asian Economies
By: Money_and_Markets
I'm in Asia right now. And I can tell you first hand that things here are as vibrant as ever.
There's been no change in the spectacular fundamentals underlying this region. With the exception of Thailand, almost all Asian countries are exploding with economic growth. For example, Singapore's second-quarter economic stats just blew away expectations, with GDP rising 8.5%.
All this growth has two important results:
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Why is the US Government Trying to Sell US Sub-prime Mortgages to China? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Marty_Chenard
A few months ago, the sub-prime problem seemed to be a mammoth problem to many investors.
But ... nothing bad happened, so investors thought that this was another over-hyped problem that really amounted to nothing. Besides, the Fed was being proactive as our big market-protectors, so there was nothing to worry about ... Mighty Mouse was here to save the day.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
MPTrader Mid-Day Minute - Financial Sector ETF Looking Bearish / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Today's weakness in the Financial Select Sector SPDR (AMEX: XLF) has pressed the financial ETF below all of my relevant "trading" moving averages, which I consider to be a sign of impending decline. However, let's notice that the price structure must break both its 1-year support line as well as its prior pivot low, which reside at 35.53, in order to trigger downside acceleration towards a test of the next important, intermediate-term pivot low, at 34.18 (from 3/14).Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
The Financial Markets Big Picture - The Crack-up Boom Series Part VI / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Ty_Andros
In This Issue
1. The Crack-up Boom Series Part VI Introduction
2. Smoke Signals, aka The “BIG” Picture
3. Years Ending in 7 and What Comes After! Nice, Very Nice.
Foreword - For greater insight into our publication, have a look at the Overview of Tedbits . It helps current and potential subscribers understand our mission in serving you. It also gives a broad description of what's unfolding globally and what you can expect from Tedbits as a regular reader.
1. The Crack Up Boom series is exploring the unfolding “Indirect Exchange” (as detailed by Ludvig Von Mises), that dollar holders will be using to exit their holdings now and eventually is will be followed by all holders of fiat currency holdings no matter which country is perpetrating the “fraud” of confiscation of wealth through the printing and credit creation process that all such monetary schemes evolve into. The “Crack Up Boom” will drive an inflationary global expansion to inconceivable heights over the coming years. Asset prices will skyrocket as people do what they always do when threatened they will modify their behavior and do the things necessary for “SELF PRESERVATION” of their families, countries, economies and their wealth. Let's take a look at Von Mises description of the CRACK UP BOOM once again:
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Monday, July 16, 2007
Nolte Notes - Bulls On Parade / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Paul_J_Nolte
It is hard to argue with a bull market – stocks rose on the week breaking through the two-month range that has held the averages captive on better than average volume. The usual giddiness that ensues should carry the Dow through 14,000 (got your 14K hats ready?) before we get a bit of backing and filling “confirming” that the former high end of the trading range is now the market's new floor. Economically speaking, Goldilocks remains in the house (bears aren't home yet!), as the trade deficit widened a bit, but our export business continues to grow (the reason large cap stocks are doing well) and consumer confidence also improved – in the face of higher energy prices.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, July 16, 2007
MPTrader Mid-Day Minute - Internet Holders Trust (HHH) Targets Upside Breakout / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let's notice that so far today the Internet HLDRs ETF (AMEX: HHH) opened lower but has climbed into positive territory -- at new recovery rally highs, with the possibility of closing the session with a key upside reversal spike.Read full article... Read full article...