Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Monday, August 03, 2009

Bankrupt Bailed Out Banks Buying U.S. Treasuries to Keep Interest Rates Low / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

U.S. lenders bailed out by the government are returning the favor by stepping up purchases of Treasuries, helping to temper a rise in borrowing costs.

Monday, August 03, 2009

Don't Invest in an Stock Index Tracker, Stick with Defensive Stocks / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: MoneyWeek

July was a very good month for the UK stock market – the best in more than six years, in fact.

The FTSE 100 rose by 8.5% during the month, as more and more investors flip from bearish to bullish, scared of being left behind by the rally. And with the banks set to report a rebound in profits (however artificial) this week, the cheer may well continue. Barclays has already set the scene this morning with a pre-tax profit of nearly £3bn for the first half of this year.

Monday, August 03, 2009

Stock Market Momentum Slowing at Key Resistance Points / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Angelo_Campione

The system remains on a Neutral signal.

Last week was another positive one, with a continuation of positive earnings announcements although now momentum seems to be slowing down as we approach some key resistance points.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

The Great Missed Stock Market Investment Opportunity of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Clif_Droke

When the books have been written on 2009, the prevailing story will undoubtedly be one of lost opportunity. Countless numbers of investors caught up in the tangled web of pessimistic headlines failed to pull the trigger on what is turning out to be one of the best market recovery years of our lifetime.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Stocks Bear Market Rally Coming to an End / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

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 2012-2014. This

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Stock Market Long Wave Theory 92% Right (On S&P 500); Buffett & Roubini 75% Wrong / Stock-Markets / Forecasts & Technical Analysis

By: Andrew_Butter

January 2009 I thought I’d see if "market-long-wave" theory (which I previously only used for real estate), works for the US stock market.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Stock Market in Full Bullish Mode, All Systems are Go! / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Angelo_Campione

As I'm sure you could interpret from the title of this article, all of my indicators are pointing higher and we are full on bullish. I wouldn't be surprised to see a pullback on Monday, and neither should you.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Investors Favor the Inflation Trade on Better than Expected Corporate Earnings / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Prieur_du_Plessis

For some reason the lyrics of Electric Light Orchestra’s classic, Livin’ Thing, keep resounding in my head: “You took me, ooh, woah, higher and higher, baby. It’s a livin’ thing … ” Followed by: “It’s a terrible thing to lose … ” But let me get on to the review of the financial markets …

Sunday, August 02, 2009

State of the Economy and Markets, Bearish on Most Things Except Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Douglas_V._Gnazzo

There were quite a few economic reports out this week and many of them are starting to slowly turn more positive. This is good news, as a journey of 1000 miles begins one step at a time. However, much of what is reported in the media tends to have a spin put on it. I want the economy to improve as much as the next person, but I want to know if it’s for real or not, as in sustainable.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Stock Market On Breakout... Possible Back Test Coming... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

Market Overview - For weeks, and for that matter months, we saw the market race off the bottom at SP 500 666. Day after day and week after week we saw the market move higher, taking out important level after important level of resistance. Each one of those resistance levels bought about pullbacks that seemed to test the grit of every bull on Wall Street. We'd fail at various resistance levels once and then twice and sometimes three or more times.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Stock Market Dumb Money Bullish Again! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Guy_Lerner

Over the last 4 weeks, the S&P500 has gained a little more than 12%, and during that time, investor sentiment, as measured by the "Dumb Money" indicator, was neutral. Prior to last month's huge run up, the "Dumb Money" indicator was in bullish territory (i.e., bear signal) for 10 consecutive weeks, and during that time the S&P500 lost 3.5%. This week (or rather after last month's monstrous surge), we find the bulls ready to buy high and sell higher again as the "Dumb Money" indicator has moved back into an extreme bullish reading.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Weakening U.S. Dollar and Rising Urban Unemployment / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Global_Research

Bob Chapman writes: On Wednesday the Treasury’s five-year auction yield was 2.69% with 21.15% allotted at the high and bid to cover was 1.92 to 1. The average of the past ten auctions has been 2.20%. Indirect, central bank participation was 35.7% versus an average of 36.8%. Overall that was weak demand. Do not forget the Treasury has to raise $2 trillion by 9/30/09.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

The Recession is Over, What to Do Now / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010

By: Q1_Publishing

One of the most watched indicators just flashed the “sell” signal…

What are you going to do?

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Manipulated Government GDP Statistics Report is Just Plain Wrong / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Dr_Martenson

The GDP report was released Friday (7/31/09) and it was a compendium of incomprehensible and illogical numbers and, worse, it is just plain wrong.

Of course, since so much rides on an accurate assessment of our true economic state of affairs it behooves us to make sense of it as best we can understanding that the GDP report is less than perfect and riddled with difficult-to-rationalize statistical manipulations and quirky additions.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Stock Markets Best Month for 20 Years / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: NewsLetter

Dear Reader

The stock markets close July with many widely tracked indices experiencing their best performance for the month of July for more than 20 years. Many commentators are writing "where are the investors?", as few have ridden the rally, which is the whole point of a stocks stealth bull market as most investors smarting from the bear market remain paralysed by fear of the preceding bear market that either miss or in fact consistently bet against, convinced by a stream of statistics as to why this rally should imminently terminate, no matter that the so called 'bear market rally" has risen some 40% and for asian markets more than 100% since the March lows.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Has Stock Market Volatility Ended Or Is It About To Resume? / Stock-Markets / Volatility

By: Sy_Harding

Thanks to the rally of the last three weeks, which saw the S&P 500 quickly gain 12.1%, the market, which was down for the year just three weeks ago, is now up, the Dow and S&P 500 up almost 10% for the year.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Financial Stocks ETF XLF Needs to Break Its Down Trendline / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The big picture of the Financial Select Sector ETF (XLF) shows that the recovery thus far has not yet challenged the dominant bear market down trendline, which cuts across the price axis at approximately 14.30 as we speak. Should the XLF seek out a test of its major down trendline in the next two weeks, the price structure will have to climb another 10%. Of course, to do that the index will have to climb above its prior recovery rally peak at 13.05, which should trigger acceleration towards the test of the 2 year down trendline. If the upmove exceeds the trendline at 14.30, my work will trigger higher intermediate term swing targets at 15.30 and then 18.00.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Urgent Financial and Economic Crisis Investment Strategy Update / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010

By: Money_and_Markets

Hello — this is Martin Weiss with an important strategy update.

It’s only fair to acknowledge that the economic depression I foresaw in my book and in my reports is unfolding more slowly than I had expected.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Mark Mobius Ready to Invest up to $10 Billion in Russia / Stock-Markets / Russia

By: Pravda

USA’s Templeton is ready to invest in Russia 20 percent of the portfolio, which is to be increased to $50 billion during the forthcoming two years, the head of Templeton Asset Management, Mark Mobius said.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Investor Risk Appetite Retuns As The Stocks Bears Run Scared / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

The bear slaughter continues apace. Stocks surged Thursday, hitting their highest levels in nearly 9 months, as investors eyed the latest batch of “better-than-expected” (yawn) profits and guidance, a weaker Dollar, a decent 7 year US Treasury bond auction, a report that suggested the labor market is starting to stabilize and soothing words from China that they would refill the punch bowl.