Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, August 30, 2013
Make These Market Moves Before the U.S. Attacks Syria / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
William Patalon writes: Oil prices have been surging on fears that the Obama administration is planning to punish Syria for using chemical weapons against its own people.
But the real question is whether this escalation in "black gold" prices is going to continue.
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Why Syria Conflict Is Hitting Markets Hard / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
George Leong writes:
Syria is on the verge of expanding its current conflict to include the United States and its allies as the chaos in the Middle East continues. Then there are also the tensions in Egypt and Iran.
If the U.S. and its allies attack Syria, the impact on the global economy and the stock market will be negative and how bad it gets will largely be dependent on the degree and length of the war.
Friday, August 30, 2013
How Rising Interest Rates Will Affect You / Stock-Markets / US Interest Rates
Marc Lichtenfeld writes: According to a survey, 63% of investors don’t know how rising interest rates will affect their portfolios.
They should, because rates are climbing fast. The 10-year Treasury is at nearly 3%. Just three months ago, it was under 2%. The 10-year Treasury yield can affect mortgage rates, interest rates on credit cards… and especially your portfolio.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Must Watch Trading Video on Stock Market, Crude Oil and Gold, Silver / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
Stock Market Momentum at 10-1 extreme level, Crude oil spike, and Gold stocks sharp drop coming?
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Stock Market What's Next....? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
That's a great question. If you study the sixty-minute short-term charts, they're a bit more bullish. As things tried to sell today the MACD's refused to turn down. Yes, I am clearly a MACD guy. Always have been. It's in my blood. Even though 1639 should be very tough resistance, it seems to me that short-term charts may allow a bit higher first. No guarantee whatsoever as 1639 can just knock the market right back down. In addition, any move back down will get things oversold again on those short-term charts. Makes things very tough for both sides.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Bond Markets No Safe Haven from Stock Market Risk / Stock-Markets / US Bonds
Bond yields spike to a 2-year high
Two months ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he was puzzled by the upward surge in Treasury yields. And bond yields are even higher now, reaching a two-year high on August 15.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Bernanke Tells Emerging Markets to Stop Crying and Grow Up! / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
Bailouts appear to be the established substitute for sustainable policy. In that spirit, Brazil last week announced a $60 billion program to shore up its currency. India has been introducing capital controls. South Africa is considering currency intervention. Blamed is the Federal Reserve’s taper talk. But as critical as we have been of Fed policy in recent years, emerging markets should stop crying and consider embracing long overdue reforms. We discuss who may win this battle as currency wars continue to rage.
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Monday, August 26, 2013
Stock Market Momentum Still Down / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
I love good bounce, don't you?
But just how good have our index bounces really been so far. While we had a pretty exciting session on Friday the voulum on a 0.34% up day on the SPY (see Dave Fry's chart) was only 1/2 what it was on the 0.64% drop on Wednesday. As Dave notes: "They don't put volume on your brokerage statement, but…." As to our bounce lines - not too impressive:
- Dow 14,960 (weak) and 15,120 (strong)
- S&P 1,658 and 1,671
- Nas 3,620 and 3,640
- NYSE 9,420 and 9,500
- Rut 1,020 and 1,030
Monday, August 26, 2013
The Truth About the Nasdaq Trading Freeze / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
Shah Gilani writes: If Goldman Sachs can lose $100 million in a matter of minutes on account of its computers misfiring, is that a sign of things to come? Or is it proof we're already there?
You heard about last week's shutdown, but do you know what it means?
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Monday, August 26, 2013
Stock Market Fractured Decline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
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. A back-test of the neckline is possible over the near-term.
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Monday, August 26, 2013
Stock Market - Time To Be Defensively Pro-Active / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
We are no fans of the Fed-sponsored stock market takeover, but that seems to be the way of central planners, these days...eliminate free markets and get them to react how it puts central planning and Lying Ben's disastrous QE4Ever in a positive light, no matter that everything else is falling apart.
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
The Coming Stock Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
One mistake most investors made when building their portfolio is using the bottom-up approach where they tend to concentrate on stock picking without paying attention to the overall market. When you apply the bottom-up approach you tend to ‘not see the forest for the trees’ because you are focusing on the ‘micro side’ of the market. Or put it another way, you concentrate on the companies but miss out on the overall market.
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
Stock Market Short Term Stabilization, But Not Out of the Woods Yet / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
Courtesy of Doug Short. Chris Puplava writes: Given how oversold the market was entering this week it’s not surprising to see some stabilization. The S&P 500 was able to reclaim its 50-day moving average (50d MA) though I don’t think we are quite out of the woods as sentiment and other intermediate technical indicators remain only slightly below neutral levels. One noticeable improvement has been sentiment, which has worked off some of the recent bullish levels and moved closer to levels associated with bottoms as both active money managers and retail investors turn overly bearish.
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
Stock Market Bears Draw Blood - 5 Down On The SPY / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
SPY
Last week's article I left readers with the idea of looking for a bounce for wave [iv] and new lows for wave [v].
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Stock Market Downtrend Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
The market opened the week flat, made a new downtrend low Monday, retested that low Tuesday, then made a lower low after the FOMC minutes on Wednesday. After that the market rallied for the rest of the week. For the week the SPX/DOW were mixed, the NDX/NAZ were +1.55%, and the DJ World index lost 0.3%. It is interesting that the DOW has confirmed the downtrend, while the SPX/NDX/NAZ have yet to do so. On the economic front it was another mixed week. On the uptick: existing home sales, FHFA housing prices, leading indicators and the monetary base. On the downtick: new home sales, the WLEI, and weekly jobless claims rose. Next week the first revision to Q2 GDP, plus PCE prices, Personal income/spending and Consumer sentiment. Best to your week.
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Financial and Economic Meltdown Coming?! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
“Our estimates of prospective risk are surging…
“At present, we have what might best be characterized as a broken speculative peak, in that market internals (particularly interest-sensitive groups), breadth and leadership have broken down uniformly following an extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndrome.
“If you recall, the market also recovered to new highs in October 2007, weeks after the initial, decisive break in market internals at that time. Presently, we’re looking at the same set of circumstances. On some event related to tapering or the Fed Chair nomination, we may even see another push higher. It isn't simply short-term risk, but deep cyclical risk that is of concern.”
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Friday, August 23, 2013
Stocks Bear Market Looms / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The US stock markets have enjoyed a dazzling year, levitating to a long series of new record highs. But this relentless advance has stalled in August, with selling pressure mounting. Even most of the bulls readily agree that a material selloff is overdue after such a mighty run. But actually the odds are high this necessary retreat will extend well beyond normal pullbacks or even corrections into a new cyclical bear.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
Economic Napalm - Stock Market and Economic Crash to Begin Now! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
The smell of economic NAPALM is in the air as the central bank printing presses have allowed mispricing, malinvestments and market imbalances to mushroom to EXPLOSIVE levels. Now the money printing is set to slow and some of the insolvent can be expected to fall to their doom as the tide of money recedes.
This has set the stage for a BLACK swan of unknown identity to set off the conflagration. The Black swans are too numerous to mention but we are going to identify a few of them in this edition of fingers of instability.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
Stock Market Bedlam Breaks Loose! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
First the NASDAQ broke down at noon, precisely when AAPL fell beneath 500.00 (any coincidence there?).
Virtually all NASDAQ stocks were halted.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
NASDAQ Stock Market Trading Halted / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
As I am sure you have heard NASDAQ trading for stocks and options was halted earlier today around 12:23 PM because of a computer trading glitch. It is now scheduled to reopen for trading at 3:25 PM although quite a few stocks are now showing quotes.
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