Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Investment Performance Expectations: Fine Tuning Working Capital Model / Stock-Markets / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Contrary to popular belief and Wall Street propaganda, investing is not a competitive event. Rather, it is a uniquely personal, goal-directed activity that individuals must organize and control for themselves. Too few appreciate that it is a long-term enterprise and only a handful, at best, have discovered that DJIA and S & P 500 numbers are only useful at their extremes.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, February 13, 2009
Consumer Credit Collapse: What's Really on the Cards / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are taking second look at the consumer credit numbers reported last week. Please consider Consumer credit falls more than expected in December . Consumer borrowing fell for a third straight month in December, the longest stretch in 17 years, as households cut spending amid a steep recession and rising job layoffs. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, February 13, 2009
Stock Markets Stage Late Comeback on Mortgage Bailout Plan / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
JFK once inspired a generation of young Americans with the immortal line “think not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. How ironic, in the era of bailout nation, does that sound now! And with an hour to go to the New York close last night it was more of what your country may do for you that helped the market claw back heavy early losses. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Stock Market Volatile Session Ends Higher on Mortgage Subsidy News / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets had quite a volatile session with four major substantial intraday swings that created a day of volatility for sure. Net on the day the indices closed slightly higher for the most part, except for the Dow, which was down a tad. The day started out with a big gap down. They tested the lows and actually took them out on the S&P 500 and slightly so on the Nasdaq 100, but rallied back off of 1205 NDX and 812 SPX and staged a strong 5-wave rally that lasted into late morning. The NDX moved from 1205 to 1240, and the SPX trailed, only moving from about the 812 area to 827. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
U.S. Stock Markets Give Major Sell Signal / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Brian_Bloom
Two things happened today that bear thinking about:
1. The US Stock market gave a sell signal which, in my view, was not a run-of-the-mill signal. There are too many people who are “hoping” for a bounce from these levels to give me the comfort that it will bounce.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Stock Market Equilibertarianism / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Oxbury_Research
The “Let's get Mikey” Market - There used to be a television commercial for Life brand cereal that we enjoyed immensely. It's worth a brief discussion.
The ad featured a trio of brothers sitting around the breakfast table, trying to determine who was going to try a new cereal. Neither of the older brothers had the nerve to give it a go (“I ain't gonna try it; you try it.”). But the youngest, Mikey, could always be convinced. “He'll eat anything!”
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Nasdaq Q's Bear Market Countertrend Rally Ending? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The pattern developing in the PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQQ) since the 11/21 low at 25.05 is a mess, which in and of itself indicates to me that it represents a countertrend rally within an as of yet incomplete larger downmove that should revisit and test the November low in the upcoming days/weeks. If such a scenario proves correct, then the 2/10 recovery high at 31.69 ended the entire countertrend recovery, and the subsequent decline into today's low at 29.64 represents the initial decline of a new downleg. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Historic Oversold Conditions in Almost All Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: 2009 is already shaping up to be yet another year when almost all analysts and investors get the markets dead wrong. Again.
But you don't have to be a part of it. You can be on the right side of the markets.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Stock Market Reversion to the Mean and the Risk of Ruin / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Joseph_Russo
The Silver Bullet Band -
Groping in the dark for the golden gun with silver bullets, should they get their hands on it- the Fed, Treasury, and the political bodies at large, may soon discover they have been on their knee's pleading to engage in a willfully ignorant round of Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Bearish Stock Market Base Building / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Investing in the financial markets requires the assessment of probabilities for both positive and negative outcomes. You should approach the market with neither a bullish nor a bearish bias. The S&P 500 has been holding up relatively well since the November 20, 2008 low. A sideways pattern in the markets is often referred to as a base. Wall Street, as a whole, is predisposed to view the markets with a significant bullish bias. Consequently, the S&P 500's recent basing pattern has been met with almost a universally positive reaction.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Stock Market Treads Water Ahead of Congressional Fiscal Stimulus Vote / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
US stocks rebounded from their lows to record modest gains after news on ‘fiscal stimulus'. In short the US House and Senate versions of fiscal stimulus plans have been reconciled into a single $789bn stimulus plan – one third tax cuts, two-thirds spending . We are led to expect votes today in the House and this evening for the Senate. However given the price performance of government bonds this morning (they are bid to boots), I'd say the risk aversion trade is back with a bang and this spells trouble for equities. Much more on that below. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Financials Lead Stocks in Mixed Session / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market did have some volatility on Wednesday, but the indices ended narrowly mixed. The day started out with a little move up off the opening followed by a sharp turnaround lower. They spiked down and made a new low on the Nasdaq 100, but did not on the S&P 500, which resulted in a snapback rally. But the rally failed at the 2 day declining tops lines, which resulted in a much sharper afternoon slide that took the market to the lows for the day with about an hour and a half to go.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Financial and Commodity Markets Forecasts Special / Stock-Markets / Futures Trading
By: Nadeem_Walayat
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Forecasting Strong China Economy and Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes: I was watching CNBC last week and listened to expert after expert rub their crystal balls and predict the best places to invest your money: gold, bank stocks, Brazil, oil companies, large cap multi-nationals, drug stocks, Japan … you name it.
That tassel loafer, Armani suit crowd from Wall Street has one of the most consistent track records I've ever seen … AT BEING WRONG!
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Financial Markets Confidence More Important Than Gold / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Axel_Merk
In a rare interview with Western media, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, told the Financial Times (see http://www.ft.com/wen ),
‘Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency'
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Stock Market Sells Off on Disapointing Banking Sector Bailout Plan / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
I am spending the next few days in Europe on a short business trip. First stop is Dublin where the temperature is icy, the mood is dour, property prices are plunging, the queues for jobless claims are five hours long, the soon-to-be-unemployed are holding protest strikes, and the banks are on the edge of a financial precipice. Yes, it may be a movie with different actors, but the plot is the same as in many other countries. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Stock Market Still In Bear Mode / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Kingsley_Anderson
Make no mistake about it, this is still a bear market. It has been quite some time since the market has experienced such a violent decline. Any dreams about the rally continuing were violently doused as the market did not appreciate the comments of Mr. Geithner.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Stock Market Bloodbath on Treasury Secretary's News / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets ended in a bloodbath today with extremely negative numbers across the board. The indices did rally after a negative opening, and the NDX and S&P 500 retested yesterday's highs, but they stopped in their tracks and reversed.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Obama Will Revive “Shadow Financial System” to Revive U.S. Banks / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: To ease the ongoing credit crisis and get banks lending again, the Obama administration realizes that it first has to resuscitate the “shadow financial system” that's dominated by hedge funds and other large-scale private investors.
Surprisingly, two key ingredients of this turnaround formula will be structured investments, such as asset-backed securities, and leverage - the combination and poorly policed use of which acted as the accelerants that helped fuel the financial inferno that's now sweeping the globe in wildfire fashion.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Financial Markets Judgment Day on Obama, Geithner Credit Crisis Rescue Plan / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Marty_Chenard
A moment the market has been waiting for ... The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has not gone well. Unaccountability for funds was a major issue. Lack of effectiveness was another issue. As a result, opinions and emotions surrounding TARP have grown to be negative. Read full article... Read full article...