Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Stock Markets Pull Back Off The Top On The Best Possible News / Stock-Markets / Articles
By: Jack_Steiman
What an interesting day we saw today. An unusual day from many perspectives. We can start with the jobless report that came out 60 minutes before the opening bell. Expectations were calling for nearly 150,000 job losses. We saw only 11,000. You can imagine how much the market loved that report, especially when you add in that the employment rate fell from 10.2% to 10.0%, another nice surprise. Of course, that's a bad number overall but it was better than the market had expected it to be.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Gold Fever Boils Over and the Master Forecasters of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The big news story of the week was the improving Jobs picture in the U.S. which saw the unemployment rate dip back to 10% from 10.2%, triggering a surge in the stock indices early Friday. Last weeks news of Dubai World's debt default hit Emirate stock markets hard this week with the UAE's main exchange in Abu Dhabi down more than 20%.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Probability of a Stock Market Crash Is Rising / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Brian_Bloom
A new ball game?
In the past few weeks, this analyst has been taking the unpopular stance that the US Dollar Index might be wanting to bottom out. The sharp rise on Friday (chart courtesy yahoo.com) may or may not have been the start of a new move but it was certainly not a mild move in currency terms.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Nasdaq NDX Stock Index Futures Technical Study / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Piazzi
I was lucky in the order, but I've always been lucky when it comes to killin' folks – Character of William Munny, as played by Clint Eastwood, in the Movie Unforgiven
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Stock Market Bullish Trend Remains Intact / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Peter_Navarro
Grudgingly, I must admit that the market's upward trend remains in place. However, this remains a very difficult market to make money in while the risk/reward still looks more like a gamble on the long side rather than a solid speculation.
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Saturday, December 05, 2009
Stock Market Positive Seasonal Factors Have Ended, Heading for a Down Week / Stock-Markets / Seasonal Trends
By: Mike_Burk
The good news is: • The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit new recovery high last Monday.
Short Term - Seasonality has not been very influential for the past 3.5 years (mid 2006).
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Saturday, December 05, 2009
Stock Market Losing Traction on Lack of Fundamentals / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The employment situation suggests an improvement - The unemployment rate edged down to 10.0 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-11,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. In the prior 3 months, payroll job losses had averaged 135,000 a month. In November, employment fell in construction, manufacturing, and information, while temporary help services and health care added jobs.
Friday, December 04, 2009
Investment Profit Vehicles for the Intensifying Financial and Economic Storm / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“A Great Collapse. The U.S. economic and systemic solvency crises of the last two years are just precursors to a Great Collapse: a hyperinflationary great depression. Such will reflect a complete collapse in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar, a collapse in the normal stream of U.S. commercial and economic activity, a collapse in the U.S. financial system as we know it, and a likely realignment of the U.S. political environment. The current U.S. financial markets, financial system and economy remain highly unstable and vulnerable to unexpected shocks. The Federal Reserve is dedicated to preventing…debasing the U.S. dollar…
Friday, December 04, 2009
If You Think the Past Decade Was Bad For Stocks, Wait Till You See This / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: EWI
Robert Folsom writes: The major stock indexes are the wrong place to look.
A well-known business magazine recently published a story with this headline:
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Friday, December 04, 2009
Stock Market Sectors and Bonds for Higher Investment Income Yields / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: Mike_Larson
The Federal Reserve’s policy of pegging interest rates to the floor is having a slew of consequences. It’s driving down the dollar. It’s helping fuel new asset bubbles. It’s leading to the misallocation of economic resources.
And perhaps most importantly for you, it’s punishing savers. By cutting the federal funds rate to a range of zero percent to 0.25 percent, the Fed has forced rates on short-term Treasuries, short-term certificates of deposit, and money market accounts into the gutter. You can’t earn squat on these safe, cash-like investments.
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Friday, December 04, 2009
The Resilient FTSE 100 Stocks Index May be in for Trouble Ahead / Stock-Markets / UK Stock Market
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
The Technical Trader’s view:
Friday, December 04, 2009
Investment Fraud after Investment Fraud, Another Ponzi Scheme Comes to Light / Stock-Markets / Scams
By: Andrew_Abraham
So many thought all the investment frauds would have ended already. However more and more have come to light. One investment fraud which shocked me was Scott Rothstein who I knew from college.
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
Dow Stocks Index Expanding Triangle Bearish Price Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Nadeem_Walayat
My most recent in depth analysis of the stock market (02 Nov 2009 - Stocks Bull Market Forecast Update Into Year End) concluded with a projected rally for the Dow from 9712 to the target zone of 10,350 to 10,500, which on subsequent price action was fine tuned to 10,425 (Nov 2009 - Stocks Enter Correction Zone, Gold and Silver Next to Follow? ). This was achieved last week and was followed by a swift drop following the Dubai debt crisis implying that the correction towards the target zone of 9,900 to 9,950 was underway.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Using ETFs to Invest in the Middle East / Stock-Markets / Middle East
By: Ron_Rowland
The Middle East is big news this week with a state-owned company in the tiny emirate of Dubai asking for an extension on debt payments. Markets around the globe are watching intently.
I’m not especially surprised about this …
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
What Can Tell You if Stock Market Risk Levels Are Increasing? / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Marty_Chenard
Imagine this ... John is hiking up a 5 mile mountain. After each mile hiked, he notices that he is tiring and that he needs more time to rest.
He just finished his third mile, and he is starting the next mile with less energy ... but he still has energy left. The reality is that with each additional mile hiked, his energy is lessening.
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