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Friday, March 06, 2009

Stock Markets Go Cliff Diving Again / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: PaddyPowerTrader

It amazing what you can buy for a buck or two these days. The un-happy meal menu of stocks features Citibank at $1.02 and GM at $1.86 as the death spiral beckons. There are times when too much drink is simply not enough as the horror show continues unabated . Yesterday's laughable notion that the Chinese authorities are in control of events and would be able to turn their export driven economy around displayed the kind of naivety and misplaced optimism not seen since the Alamo. Where are they going to export to?

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

New Lows for the Stocks Bear Market! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Harry_Boxer

It was an extremely negative session and close for the market indices today. The day started out with a gap down, followed by an attempt to bounce early on. They rolled over and went lower all morning, backed and filled mid-day, rolled over in the afternoon again, made lower lows, and had a late sharp rally that just couldn't hold. That was followed by a drop to new lows for the entire move on the S&P 500 and Dow.

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Bullish on Energy and Chip Stock ETFs / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds

By: Mike_Paulenoff

For better or worse, to participate in another potent recovery rally, our model trading portfolio positioned long in energy -- like the ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas ETF (NYSE: DIG) -- and in the semiconductor sectors, rather than in the major equity market ETFs, such as the SPY's, Q's, or DIA's.

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Forecasting the Anatomy of the Stocks Bear Market Bottom / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Donald_W_Dony

Financial forecasts, whether they are fundamentally or technically driven, are a combination of probabilities and assumptions. For example, when an analyst indicates that the earnings for a company are expected to increase during the next quarter and the business is now trading below its intrinsic value, he is suggesting that the probability of a number of issues should positively affect the near-term earnings outlook for this organization.

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Financial and Economic Crisis Entering the Panic Phase / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Jim_Willie_CB

A couple of bright friends reported to me some overriding themes at the PDAC gathering in Toronto last weekend. Apparently, some surprise came to them. They mentioned that more than a few analysts, writers, and speakers still do not get it. They actually believe the situation with the US Economy and US banking system has begun to stabilize. That is like saying a college basketball player has Michael Jordan under control, or a farmer has his Clydesdale horse under control, or a misguided King can call back the ocean tide, or a man has a hurricane under control as he clings to a roof rafter.

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Stock Market Developing Positive Divergence / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Marty_Chenard

Is there a "pent up demand" brewing of investors who want to become BUYERS?

We have talked a lot about divergences in the past week.  Today, we will address a Positive Divergence coming from the New York Stock Exchange's daily "New Lows". 

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Stock, Commodities, Futures and Forex Markets Analysis 5th March 2009 / Stock-Markets / Futures Trading

By: INO

The March NASDAQ 100 was lower overnight as it consolidates some of Wednesday's short covering rally. Stochastics and the RSI are oversold but remain neutral to bearish signaling that sideways to lower prices are still possible near-term. If March extends this month's decline, the 87% retracement level of the November-January rally crossing at 1052.76 is the next downside target. Closes above the 20-day moving average crossing at 1173.80 are needed to confirm that a short-term low has been posted.

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Stock Market Solid Gain but Disappointing Finish / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Harry_Boxer

The market ended with a solid gain for the session, but it disappointed with a last half-hour sell-off that took back a chunk of the gains. The day started out with a gap up. They backed and filled early in the session, but then took off in the morning, reaching the morning highs just before the lunch hour. During the lunch hour and shortly thereafter they consolidated in a flag-like fashion, holding intraday support, and came on again in the afternoon, especially on the S&P 500 and Dow, as the blue chips caught up with the NDX from yesterday.

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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Stocks Bear Market Rally Slows The Bleeding / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Kingsley_Anderson

The bulls (and the shorts covering their positions) finally made a showing on Wall Street today. CNBC says that the reason for the bounce is that the Obama Administration announced its plan to provide relief to homeowners in distress as well as a stimulus plan being announced in China. That might not have hurt matters, but the real reason for the rally is that the market was extremely oversold. A positive day was bound to happen sooner rather than later.

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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Subprime Eastern Europe to Bankrupt Western European Banks / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The long ticking time bomb of Eastern European debt is starting to explode with an even greater inevitability as that of subprime mortgages exploding in the United States, as at least in the United States the determining factor of whether or not the mortgage market would go bust is the state of the US housing market. With Eastern Europe the big and obvious question mark that has been raised many times long before the housing markets peaked and the stock markets crashed was the degree of borrowing by Eastern Europeans in foreign currencies that set the borrowers up for the ticking currency time bomb when the forex trends reversed against them would send the value of debts soaring in the domestic currencies thus pushing for example the housing borrowers into negative equity WITHOUT A FALL IN HOUSE PRICES.

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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Recession Investing: Spam, Guns and Gold / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Money_and_Markets

Sean Brodrick writes: In these tough times, a good investment is hard to find. In fact, the S&P 500 was down 18.2 percent year-to-date through Friday. And the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 19 percent at the same time — so good investments are pretty scarce indeed.

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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Stock, Commodities, Futures and Forex Markets Analysis 4th March 2009 / Stock-Markets / Futures Trading

By: INO

The March NASDAQ 100 was higher overnight due to short covering as it consolidates some of this week's decline. Stochastics and the RSI are oversold but remain neutral to bearish signaling that sideways to lower prices are still possible near-term. If March extends this month's decline, the 87% retracement level of the November-January rally crossing at 1052.76 is the next downside target. Closes above the 20-day moving average crossing at 1179.22 are needed to confirm that a short-term low has been posted.

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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Stock Market Breaks Psychological 700 Level on S&P Index / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

After a big fall in the previous sessions, traders sometimes look for a turnaround of up to 50% of the previous days drop or even a dead cat bounce. But despite the five day drubbing there was no such relief yesterday as the Dow Jones lost another 0.55%.

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Stock Market Disappointing Close / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Harry_Boxer

The market was mixed at the close, but the indices certainly disappointed with a late afternoon sell-off, taking the indices from the plus column into the negative column, except for the Nasdaq 100.

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Collective Thoughts Of Investors Point To More Stock Market Losses / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Chris_Ciovacco

"The current state of investors’ collective fear means the odds remain against those who own stocks and in favor of those who short stocks or remain defensive."

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Financial Institutions Toxic Securities - Wanted: Market Based Prices / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009

By: Axel_Merk

Shaken insurance giant AIG has argued that fair value accounting is what got the world into this financial crisis. This debate is flaring up once again as it becomes ever more apparent that many of the world's largest banks would be insolvent if they priced their securities at “fair” market prices.

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Is Buffett Right to Invest in Asia? / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Money_and_Markets

Tony Sagami writes: Warren Buffett knows a thing or two about investing. But what I really admire is that he always tells it exactly like it is … good or bad. Buffett really caught my attention a few days ago when he sent out his annual letter to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's insurance and investment holding company.

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Stock Market Train Wreck Continues / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: PaddyPowerTrader

With the impenetrable global financial market gloom showing no signs of abating, stocks took another pounding yesterday. Financials were crushed again and that will grab all the headlines today. Tabloid focus remains on the cosmic black hole that is AIG(reed) and their latest visit to the ATM (American Taxpayers Money), the prospects of Citibank ($1.20) becoming a sub $1 stock and the pared payouts at GE.

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Monday, March 02, 2009

Stock Market On Fast Train Towards Zero / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Kingsley_Anderson

On Sunday, I indicated that when the market fails to sell off on bad news, it means the market is finding a floor. When it in fact sells off on bad news, it is certainly not a good sign. This sort of ties into the old market adage, “buy on the rumor, sell on the news,” whereby by the time the news has been published to the world, it has already been discounted by the market.

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Monday, March 02, 2009

Stock Market Indices Reach Extreme Oversold Levels / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Harry_Boxer

It was an extremely negative way to start the week, but that's been customary in this bear market. The indices started with big gaps down, tried to rally early on but didn't last long, and then rolled over and sold off steadily until early afternoon when they tried another rally that lacked thrust and rolled over in the last hour to close near the lows for the day.

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