Category: Investing 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Preparing Precisely for Financial Market Bottoms / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
Let me ask you something. How many times have you heard a bottom called in a market...any market? I mean, it's amazing that not only are these people still allowed to publicly express their opinions, but people still listen to them as well.
It shouldn't be that surprising. Almost every Tom, Dick, and Harry with an Ameritrade or Schwab trading account doesn't have a clue what's going on in the stock market or any other financial market for that matter. So I guess the advisers and analysts that they get their advice from only have to be slightly more intelligent.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Stock Market Forecast 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Daniel_Smolski
With the New Year comes the annual tradition of predictions on where the stock market is headed. It has been a long time since I have so much variability in forecasts. Main stream economists have abandoned the usual permabull stance and many are in fact predicting large declines. Most, however, continue with a staunch approach of buy-and-hold in the face of the biggest declines since 2001. Any buy-and-hold investor who purchased after 1997 is now officially sitting in the red. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Death of Blue Chip Stocks, R.I.P. / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
Have you ever heard of a “Bo Derek Stock?” Me neither. But it's a term listed in the seventh edition of Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms . When I was in college, we had to buy this book, and I'm embarrassed to say that the early edition that I bought back then did not seem half as thick as the current version. And I think the reason for the bloat of the new edition is that many dated terms have yet to be deleted. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Most Important Investment Report of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: EWI
Do you know what to expect from the markets in 2009? Are you prepared to take advantage of the opportunities – and avoid the dangerous pitfalls – that you will face this year?
Elliott Wave International, the world's largest market forecasting firm, has just released a free report that can help.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Latest Housing Market Crime and the Investment Opportunity it Offers / Housing-Market / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
For those who follow the financial news, these days of bankruptcies, suicides, foreclosures and Ponzi schemes may have inured you to an item appearing Friday that may bear further scrutiny.
How's this for the makings of an intrigue: a convicted con-man become Christian Minister accuses homebuilding giant, Lennar Corp., of fraud – something he has a modicum of experience in, having served seven years of a 25 year sentence for the same before being paroled.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Stock and Commodity Market Investments Themes for 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: At the beginning of every new year, just as we do with our personal lives, it pays to take a few steps back … put the past year in the markets into perspective … and contemplate the year ahead.
And today, this is more important than ever.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Financial Markets Vertigo and Forecasts for 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: John_Mauldin
I get a lot of newsletters from money managers around the country, which I try and read as they are written by people who are “in the trenches,” actually making decisions on behalf of their clients. It broadens my perspective. Frankly, most are not all that well written and unimaginative, but who ever said writing was easy? But some really strike a chord with me. Today’s Outside the Box I have read twice, which is unusual for me. Cliff Draughn is a wealth manager in Savannah, Georgia (Draughn Partners) and a good friend. His letter is a wide ranging tome on a variety of topics, but is full of common sense and one that I think will resonate with readers. I trust you will enjoy this.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, January 11, 2009
China’s Red Dragon Turns Financial Crisis into 2009 Investment Opportunity / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes: The Chinese word for crisisis weiji . But get this - when translated literally, wei means danger and ji means opportunity. So to the Chinese, a crisis - or danger - represents an opportunity.
Of course, you don't have to actually speak Chinese to understand what this mindset means for investors.
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
Stock and Financial Markets Outlook for 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Joseph_Dancy
The S&P 500 index of some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world was down 38.5% in 2008 – the worst performance since the Great Depression. Illiquid market sectors performed worse. Over the last ten years a long term investor in the S&P 500 would have lost money – so much for the ‘buy and hold well known companies' theory of investing. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Gold, Housing and Emerging Markets 2009 and Beyond / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
“This level of stimulus is at the point that it's like taking a bottle of Viagra and nothing happens...” - Harry S. Dent
We've entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty. The markets have collapsed and $30 trillion of stock market “wealth” has evaporated.
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Friday, January 09, 2009
Gold and Stock Markets Volume and Time Series Analysis / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Brian_Bloom
There are those who are arguing that the equity markets are due for a bounce – maybe even an upward surge in prices. Some are very seasoned analysts who have decades of experience under their belts. They may be right, but this analyst has been struck by the relative lack of emphasis by these bullish analysts on the issues of volume and cyclical timing.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 09, 2009
One Question You Need to Ask Before Buying Any Stock Now / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
Andrew Mickey writes: Warren Buffett is known for only investing in businesses which he understands. He says individual investors should look at being a shareholder as being a “part owner” of the business.
Too often this basic principle of investing is forgotten. Lately, it's been too easy to forget. The recent market volatility can drive the market value of a business up or down 10% in a day makes it tough to think of owning stocks as owning part of a business. At the end of the day though, what you're buying is part of a business.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Flight to Safety 2009 to U.S. Dollar, Gold, Euro and Yen / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Christopher_Laird
The USD remains stronger than one might think into the beginning of 2009. Between the latest Mid East tensions and general flight to safety it rallied again to 83 on the USDX when it looked like it might crack into the 70's again, the low being 70ish last year, before the USD rallied after April of 08, which caught the commodity and metals complex. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Reasons Why Small Cap Stocks Could Lead the 2009 Stock Market Rally / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Justice_Litle
Which is better for playing the 2009 rally - small caps or large caps?
As a general rule of thumb, "small cap" stocks have a market cap of $1 billion or less. "Large caps," in contrast, have market caps in the $10 billion range or higher... often much higher.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Searching for a Bottom in Base Metals and Industrial Commodities Markets / Commodities / Investing 2009
By: Gary_Dorsch
What was viewed as inconceivable a year ago is now a reality - roughly $ 30 -trillion of wealth was erased from global stock markets, during a brutal 15-month bear market that began in October 2007 . S peculators scrambled for the exits as a crisis originally thought to be limited to the US-mortgage sector morphed into a full-blown “credit crunch,” unlike anything experienced since the Great Depression of the 1930's. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 08, 2009
India’s Economy Still Strong Amidst Growing Global Financial Crisis / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Mike Caggeso writes: In a surprise to many, India's central bank has cut its base-lending rate four times since October, going from 9% to its current rate of 5.5%. After all, isn't India's economy growing nearly as fast as China's? And isn't that growth already being fueled by an unprecedented level of middle-class spending? Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Stock Market Investing 2009: Major Post Asset Deflation Themes / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Our 2009 screening and ranking process included literally thousands of investment options. In addition to our standard watch list of roughly 200 investment alternatives, we also used several stock scanning models to identify other potential sources of opportunity. The final results left us with a collection of investments which congregated around the following overlapping investment themes:Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Harry Boxer's Top Stock Picks for 2009 / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Harry_Boxer
Technical analyst Harry Boxer of TheTechTrader.com shares a few his Top 10 Stock Picks for 2009. For the complete list, and video chart analysis on each stock, please sign up for a free 15-day trial to Harry's Technical Trading Diary at www.thetechtrader.com. Once signed up, click on "Charts of the Week" and view the reports for Dec 29th (initial picks) and Jan 5th, which provides chart updates -- featured below -- on these picks. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Financial Markets Outlook 2009: Angling for a Recovery / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Brady_Willett
Give a man to fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to print money and you feed him for a lifetime? Juxtaposed against this seemingly outlandish re-write of the popular Chinese proverb is the image of the U.S. trying to inflate away the ills of asset and debt deflation. To be sure, with zero-bound interest rates unable to revive the lending/borrowing/asset bubbling dynamic that has helped support U.S. economic growth for the better part of the last two decades, policy makers have resorted to directly buying toxic/illiquid assets, lending to unqualified borrowers, and investing in insolvent entities. And thanks to the power of the printing press (not to mention the continued kindness of foreigners), these activities are largely being funded out of thin air. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Financial Market Forecasts 2009 for Gold, US Dollar and Crude Oil / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Daniel_Smolski
The year 2008 will be written about in finance textbooks for generations to come. The inevitable collapse of the boom, built single-headedly on credit, finally came home to roast. Ironically, further liquidity is what has, thus far, ensured the survival of the system. Having received the rubber stamp for a $700B bailout, leave it to politicians to decuple that number to, a now estimated, $7 trillion. A liability that is set to fall on the shoulders of your kids and grandkids that realistically will never be paid off. By next year, America will join the likes of Japan and Italy with GDP-to-debt ratios in excess of 100%. How will congress dig itself out of this whole? All fingers are pointing to the monetization of debt. Read full article... Read full article...