Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Major Signs of a Stock Market Top Forming / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Graham_Summers

Tops never form cleanly.

I’ve made the mistake of attempting to call a top on the “dot” in the past. The reality is that anyone who attempts to do so is exercising their ego more than their judgment.

Market tops occur when investor psychology changes. But it’s not a clean shift. Investors, like any category of people, are comprised of numerous groups or sub-sects: some get it sooner than others.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Stock Market Inflection Point / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Tony_Caldaro

The market staged a surprise this week, continuing its rally from the August 29th low at SPX 1628, by gapping up the first two days and hitting SPX 1690 by Thursday. We had expected the market to run into resistance at the SPX 1658-1667 range and even the OEW 1680 pivot range. But it managed to exceed both. For the week the SPX/DOW were +2.5%, the NDX/NAZ were +1.55%, and the DJ World index was +2.3%. Economic reports came in with a positive bias. On the uptick: wholesale/business inventories, retail sales, the PPI, the M1 multiplier, the WLEI, plus weekly jobless claims and the budget deficit improved. On the downtick: consumer credit/sentiment, and export/import prices. Next week we have industrial production, the FOMC meeting, housing reports and options expiration.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Stock Market Reaches For New Highs Even As Risks Rise / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Sy_Harding

The stock market took advantage of the lack of economic reports this week to rally back toward its bull market highs.

The previous week’s economic reports, particularly the dismal employment report last Friday, were forgotten as the threat of a military strike against Syria faded.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Self-Reliance Investing – Key to Profit & Protection – Part I / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: DeepCaster_LLC

“Collective belief can create its own reality, and at least for the past few years, collective belief is that Fed actions simply make stocks go up, and so they have. The problem is that this outcome is based almost wholly on perception and confidence bordering on superstition – not on any analytical or mechanistic link that closely relates the quantity of monetary base created by the Fed to the equity prices (despite the correlation-presumed-to-be-causation between the two when one measures precisely from the 2009 market low). Some of the deepest market losses in history have occurred in environments of aggressive Fed easing.” John Hussman, Hussman Funds, September 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

Fed QE3-Tapering Impact on Stocks and Gold / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing

By: Zeal_LLC

The Federal Reserve’s upcoming decision on whether to slow its third quantitative-easing campaign’s debt monetizations has to be this year’s most-highly-anticipated market event.  Traders have been trying to game the odds of QE3 tapering literally all year long, driving some sharp market moves.  So the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision due out next Wednesday is likely to be a major market-moving event.

The focus on this imminent FOMC meeting is so hyper-intense that its impact should be considerable no matter what the Fed decides.  The QE3 taper (or lack thereof), its size, and what the FOMC implies for future tapering will almost certainly spark sharp price reactions in the bond markets, currency markets, stock markets, and precious metals.  All have moved violently this year on mere QE3-taper anticipation.

Friday, September 13, 2013

How Gold, Oil, and Syria Really Mix… Plus "3 Strikes Against Apple" / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: The markets are very complicated at the moment, which is why now's an ideal time to reach into the Money Morning Mailbag and address your concerns.

The goal here is simple: To provide understandable, actionable, and, of course, profitable answers to your thoughtful and extremely insightful questions.

Friday, September 13, 2013

Ben Bernanke Financial Crisis Hero / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Bloomberg

Former Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson joined Bloomberg Television’s Tom Keene today on “Street Smart.”

On being Treasury Secretary for two years, six months, and ten days:

“It went quickly, but I hit the ground running. I had fortunately, a year before the crisis to build relationships of trust with the President and that relationship was clearly critical.”

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Nasdaq Presses on Without Apple Support / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: PhilStockWorld

What an exciting index!

On Tuesday, as one of our "5 More Trade Ideas that make 500% in an Up Market", we went long on 16 QQQ Jan $75/80 bull call spreads at $3 ($4,800) and paid for them by selling 2 ISRG 2015 $300 puts for $23.50 ($4,700) for net $100 on the $8,000 spread in our virtual Short-Term Portfolio.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

What You Need to Know About the Dow Stock Index's Big Changes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

In the biggest Dow Index changes in nearly a decade, Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), and Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) are being dumped from the closely watched 30-stock index.

Athletic gear maker Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) steps into the place of Alcoa, a Dow component for 54 years. Payments company Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) will unseat HP, which joined the blue-chip benchmark in 1997. And Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) replaces BofA, which joined the index five years ago.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Wall Street Mirrors Sentiments of Main Street / Stock-Markets / US Economy

By: Submissions

Eleonora  writes: Homeowners face uncertainty moving forward! Major developments are taking place in the banking sector across the United States. The mortgage boom is now a thing of the past. More and more banks across the United States are closing their facilities and financial units that traditionally worked with customers to refinance their home loans. In fact, one of the major lenders – JP Morgan – laid-off an estimated 2,000 workers during the month of August. 50% of the workers were in the home loans departments.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Dow and S&P Stock Market Indices Range Bound, Nasdaq in Bullish Breakout / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Christopher_Quigley

The “Syrian Conflict pullback” is over and the market is back in bullish mode, particularly the NASDAQ which has just given a bullish breakout signal.

For the third time the 1480’ish level on the Dow Transports has held. With this support holding, the bull trend is back in business on the Industrials the Transports and the S&P. However, they are range bound.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Three "Dead Money" Investments, Plus One "Living Large" / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

Robert Hsu writes: Yesterday we looked at what may now be the single greatest risk to your retirement dreams - a seemingly benign 1% move in the 10-year Treasury yield. (See Part I.)

So now I'm going to show you what to do about it...

Remember, if we're going to keep increasing our wealth at a significant pace, we need to make a big adjustment.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Stock Market Setup for a Perfect Storm / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

TNX rallied this morning, instead of declining, as I had reported earlier. This leaves a probable irregular correction, also known as a “running correction.” A breakout may be the catalyst for the SPX reversal as well.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

There's Only One Thing About Syria That Matters to Americans / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

Shah Gilani writes: Let's talk about Syria and how what's happening there is affecting the markets.

I see oil rising to two-year highs. I see gold rising to three-month highs. Let's see, what else is being affected? Oh, that would be nothing.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

How a 1% Gain Can Destroy Your Retirement Dreams / Stock-Markets / Pensions & Retirement

By: Money_Morning

Robert Hsu writes: This has been the bond market's worst showing in 19 years, thanks to the recent spike in the 10-year Treasury yield. But bond investors aren't the only ones getting hit.

A higher "risk-free" rate affects you, too. And me. And anyone else trying to grow their money.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Stocks Bull Market Confirmed by MWA Set to Continue?  / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Marc_Horn

On the 3rd December 2012 MWA confirmed the long term bull market. How the DAX on 3 December at 11:24 confirmed a long term bull market.

Is this bull set to continue? There is a lot of conflicting views currently about how the world is coming to an end - hyperinflation, sovereign debt crisis, unemployment, war, US government NSA spying scandals, G20 global tax hunt, oh and I must not forget Al Qaeda.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

And the Loser in the Smartphone Battle Is… / Stock-Markets / Mobile Technology

By: Profit_Confidential

George Leong writes: At a time when the smartphone war is picking up, former Wall Street star BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ/BBRY) is running for the exit as fast as it can. The company is expected to be sold in some form by November, as it tries to unload its issues on another company.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Cheap Money Means Nothing is safe – Not student loans, Emerging markets, or London flats... / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency

By: Adrian_Ash

Did you enjoy your monthly dose of non-farms nonsense last Friday?

Gold and silver both erased Thursday's drop when the latest US jobs figures were released. Set your gold or silver chart to one-week (1w) to see the silliness.

But were August's non-farm payrolls really so meaningless? Cutting the jobless rate is one-half of the US Federal Reserve's mandate (the other is beating inflation - or whisking it, perhaps, after folding in egg whites). And whatever he does (or doesn't do) to quantitative easing at next week's much-awaited policy meeting, Fed chairman Bernanke has made a 7.0% jobless rate a key condition for any talk of raising Dollar interest rates from zero.

Monday, September 09, 2013

Stock Market Ready for Wave C Decline? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over), there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, the severe correction of 2007-2009 may have curtailed the full downward pressure potential of the 40-yr and 120-yr cycles.

Intermediate trend - SPX and some other indices have formed a H&S top which was confirmed with last week's sell-off. An intermediate term correction is under way.

Sunday, September 08, 2013

Stock Market S&P Upside In Question. Watch The Nasdaq / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Michael_Noonan

The point of reading developing market activity, as seen in charts, is to eliminate any need to “predict” what may develop next day, week, or month. There is no more reliable a source of information than the market itself. Everything one needs to know is found within price and volume activity, over time. If you know the market trend, and you have some solid rules of engagement, profitable success is almost assured.

The stock market has made historic highs, but there are questions regarding its ability to sustain the upward drive during the natural market-aging process. Last time, there was a discussion about rules and a need for caution, [S&P And NAS - Best Offense Is A Good Defense, click on http://bit.ly/1dAUwUB, if you missed it].