Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Stock Market Bubble and Gold Stalls at New High / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Consumer Prices in U.S. Rise 0.1% in September
(Bloomberg) The cost of living in the U.S. rose less than forecast in September, indicating companies are keeping a lid on price increases to stoke demand.
The consumer-price index rose 0.1 percent after 0.3 percent gains in the prior two months, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. Economists projected a 0.2 percent gain, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey. Excluding volatile food and fuel costs, the so-called core rate was unchanged for a second month.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Too Much Bullish Stock Market Sentiment? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Sy_Harding
The modern Fed has quite a history of blowing bubbles, and doing so even when it seems to be aware of what it’s doing.
Remember the dotcom bubble in 1999, and the stock market bubble in 2000?
In 1998, Fed Chairman Greenspan had already warned of ‘irrational exuberance’ in the stock market a year or two before. But the market had continued to rise into extreme overvalued levels by historical standards of price/earnings ratios and the like.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Hyperinflation Multi-Trillionaires and Commodity Bubbles / Stock-Markets / HyperInflation
By: PhilStockWorld
Is it time to throw fundamentals out the window?
The boy from Zimbabwe is a multi-Trillionaire and those Trillions should be just enough to buy him a loaf of bread if he hurries to the store before they change the prices this morning. This is what is happening to our own economy, only on a smaller scale (so far). Our government, like Zimbabwe, has gotten into so much debt that they can never hope to repay it but new bills keep coming in every day so - What is a government to do?
Friday, October 15, 2010
Will China Stock Market Lead S&P 500 Higher? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let's have a look at our comparison chart between the Shanghai Composite and S&P 500, as we examine whether the SPX will continue to follow China higher.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Gold and Silver Best Protection Against the $100 Trillion Bailout / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Remember How We Saved the Banks So They Would Keep Lending to The ‘Real Economy’”? - Henry Blodgett, Business Insider, 6/2/10
“If you've never heard of a "Cram Down", you are about to get a first hand lesson on the receiving end of the biggest one in history…
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Friday, October 15, 2010
U.S. Dollar Makes New Lows, Inflation Unplugged / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
The dollar is making new lows.
As I’ve been saying all week(s) that is the story that is driving the market. Still people interview me and ask me how high I think the markets can go which is kind of silly because, as I keep trying to explain, the markets aren’t going anywhere, the only variable is the currency they are priced in. Why do people not get this? Why do financial writers not get this? Why do TA guys not get this? Why does nobody talk about this in the MSM?
Friday, October 15, 2010
Stock Markets Waiting On Helicopter Ben / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
U.S. stocks declined Thursday, dragging benchmark indexes down from five month highs, as financial companies slumped amid concern over growing legal scrutiny of home foreclosure practices. Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo slid more than 4 percent to lead financial stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a 1.8 percent drop. Apollo Group Inc. sparked a plunge in education stocks after withdrawing its forecast for fiscal 2011. Yahoo! gained 4.5 percent and EMC Corp. rose 4.5 percent on reports they may be takeover targets.
Friday, October 15, 2010
How to Hedge Yourself from the Coming Fed Inflation Disaster / Stock-Markets / Inflation
By: DailyWealth
Porter Stansberry & Braden Copeland write: Most investors know the Federal Reserve's "easy money" policy is creating an enormous amount of new credit and new money.
And most people know this policy has created an explosion in the prices of gold and silver.
Friday, October 15, 2010
The Chinese, Thai, US Bond Markets, and the Equity Markets – Two Ships Passing in the Night? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: David_Urban
Summary: Since the market stock market crash in 2008 small investors have fled equities seeking the safety and stability of bonds. Two years later bond yields are at unheard of levels while equity yields on blue chips stand at levels not seen in decades. Investors would be best served heeding the warning signs and allocating cash to high quality blue chips.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Last-Hour Rally Pares Stock Market Losses, and Google Leads Market Higher in Afterhours / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices suffered losses today, but a last hour sharp rally back brought them back from much deeper losses and closed down nearly unchanged today.
The day started out with a move down. The indices then bounced, made lower lows, and then had the best rally of the day until the last hour in the morning, reaching the highs for the session at about 10:30. They then stair-stepped their way lower all day, reaching the lows with about an hour to go at 2043.70 on the Nasdaq 100, but rallied 11 points on the NDX in the last hour. The S&P 500 rallied almost 7 points to close right at resistance.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Can the U.S. Dollar Drop Fast Enough to Keep the Stock Market Up? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Wheeee - this is fun!
The dollar dropped to 76.5 this morning and that gave us a nice pop in the futures which is fading now (8am) as we move towards our 8:30 Trade Report along with the PPI and, of course, the usual 450,000 weekly pink slips handed out to the few remaining US workers (135M and dropping almost as fast as the value of the dollar).
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Rise in Jobless Claims Takes Shine Off of Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
The QE trade is alive and well and risk assets are firing on all cylinders. Gains in stocks and commodities, in particular, are now accelerating. It seemed to me that QE2 talk would prove bullish for risk assets. And the lack of a cooperative stance within the G20 on currency matters – as the IMF meetings over the weekend showed – is now adding fuel to the fire.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Stock Market More Signs of Strength Ahead of Q4 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Donald_W_Dony
The CBOE Volatility Index is a very reliable gauge of risk on the S&P 500. Traders continually adjust their option positions according to market and economic conditions. This is reflected in the movement of the VIX. The best method of interpreting this index is through historic band ranges. Particular market conditions have a corresponding VIX reading. For example, during prolonged calm advancing markets (ie 2003 to 2007), the VIX registers about 18 or lower. As the equity markets decline or economic worries grip investors, the VIX displays levels in the 18 to 33 range (ie early 2008, part of 2009 and 2010). During brief periods of extreme concern (late 2008 and early 2009), the Volatility Index leaps to over 33.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
U.S. Jobs Market May Look Bleak, But Your Investments Don’t Have To / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes:
There's no getting around the fact that the U.S. jobs market is bleak. Ultimately, though, it's a stark reminder that as investors, we should be looking abroad for maximum profits.
Indeed, investors must turn to countries where the number of people working is rising along with standards of living and consumption.
But that's not all.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Stock Market Mid-Week Market Report / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Its been an interesting week with stocks, commodities and currencies having a knee jerk reaction to the FOMC minutes released Tuesday afternoon. In short the Fed clearly said there must be more quantitative easing before things will get better. It was this news which triggered a rally in both stocks and commodities.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Stock Market Nearing A Top Short-Term... Still Solid Overall... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
First of all, understand that the market is healthy. Next, you need to understand that it is overbought. Not violently so, but overbought, nonetheless. 70 RSI's across the board, with stochastic's in the middle 90's, is what overbought looks like. It does not mean the market can't continue a bit higher first, because it can, but 70 RSI and a 95 stochastic warn us that there is an imminent selling episode in the near future. It is what it is.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
As The World Markets Turn... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Steven_Vincent
As I review the landscape at this time, the key feature I am seeing at this juncture is that a number of key markets are playing in the vicinity of significant support and resistance. Some of these are areas of technical significance on a very long term or long term basis. Among the markets in question are: US Dollar Index, Gold, EuroDollar, DollarYen, EuroYen, Australian Dollar, SPX, NDX, World Leaders Index, SPX:30 Year Treasury Bond ratio.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Big Bullish Elliott Wave Picture for Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: David_Banister
Back in late February 2009 I decided enough was enough, and I stuck my neck out and called for a massive bull market in stocks. I based this prediction purely on Elliott Wave patterns I identified as bottoming and the sentiment gauges were off the charts bearish. We had not seen sentiment that negative since the 2002 lows. The re-tracement of the SP 500 over the eight odd years was a textbook Elliott Wave pattern, and frankly I think I was the only person who noticed the significance of the 666 low as it related to the 1974 SP 500 lows to 1999/2000 highs. Why was that 666 number so significant and a key indicator of a major bear market cycle low? Well the reason is that marked a clear wave 2 elliott wave bottom both in price, and sentiment, and time all at once.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
QE2 and Earnings Boost Stock Market Sentiment / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
European markets open firmer today and continued to grind higher all morning after minutes from the Federal reserve showed policy makers are prepared to add further QE. Intel also added to the positive tone by reporting Q2 profit of 52c versus expectations for a 50c print. Gross margins came inline for the quarter but guidance was up for Q3. ASML followed suit this morning and rallied 3 percent after saying Q3 profit rose to €268.5m beating broker estimates for €247 million. Fellow Euro tech names STMicoelectronics and Infineon are better by 3 percent and 4 percent respectively in sympathy.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
China’s Ongoing IPO Stock Market Boom / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Tony_Sagami
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, two of America’s best known billionaires, were in China last week for some business and charitable work.
Buffet has a large investment in Chinese automaker BYD Company, and Microsoft has offices all over China as well as a research center. Both, however, were there to talk to some of the richest men and women in China about incorporating philanthropy and charitable giving into their daily lives.
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