Category: Financial Markets 2010
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Stock Market Panic "A Deadly Bearish Big Picture" / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterMay 7th, 2010 Issue #28 Vol. 4
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Debt Crisis and the Euro Blood Bath, ConDem Death Embrace / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The UK election politicking is over, Britain has a new ConDem government led by David Cameron of the Liberal Democrats and Nick Clegg of the Conservatives, or is the other way around, hard to tell these days.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Capitalism Without Capital / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Mike_Whitney
Volatility is back and stocks have started zigzagging wildly again. This time it's Greece in the hotseat, but tomorrow it could be someone else. The real problem is there's too much leverage in the system, so crises keep popping up one after another. For a long time, leverage wasn't an issue, because there was enough liquidity to keep things bobbing-along smoothly. But that changed when Lehman Bros. collapsed and non-bank funding began to shut down. When the so-called "shadow banking" system crashed, liquidity dried up and the markets went into a nosedive. That's why Fed Chair Ben Bernanke stepped in and provided short-term loans to under-capitalized financial institutions. Bernanke's rescue operation revived the system, but it also transferred $1.7 trillion of illiquid assets and non-performing loans onto the Fed's balance sheet. So the problem really wasn't fixed at all; the debts were just moved from one balance sheet to another.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Five Facts You Need to Know About the Financial System / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Graham_Summers
Let’s connect the dots on the ENTIRE financial system right now.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Are Gold, Silver and Stock Market Indexes Going Parabolic? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It’s been an exciting couple weeks in the market with gold now making new all time highs as money floods into this shiny safe haven. It has everyone all worked up wanting to take part or they are riding the rally up already. But the big question is when should some money be taken off the table to lock in gains and lower your overall risk during these crazy times?
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Stocks Up As Gold Hits a Record High / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
U.S. stocks retreated, led by commodity producers, as oil and copper slumped on growing skepticism that an almost $1 trillion European loan package will halt the region’s debt crisis. Occidental Petroleum , Alcoa. and Goldman Sachs lead the market down as the US energy, raw materials and financial sectors that were under most pressure.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Nassim Taleb Kills $20 Billion Mythical Black Swan, WSJ Credibility Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Janet_Tavakoli
A May 2009 European GQ article featured an extraordinary "quote" from Nassim Nicholas Taleb about gains made for clients he advises and "screwing" banks during the financial crisis:
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Europe's Shock and Awe Bailout Impact on Bonds, Stocks, Gold and Currencies / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Bill_Downey
Brother Can You Spare a Trillion? - In what has now become the normal in expectations, European policy makers have announced a 750 BILLION EURO bailout policy late Sunday evening in defense of the Euro currency and a show of force between the USA FED, the European Central bank, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
In a nutshell they will buy bonds and will intervene in markets and "do what they have to" in order to avoid a meltdown. This is akin to the USA bailout of 1 Trillion dollars. This will only buy time, but it is all that can be done right now. For the moment the term being touted this Monday morning is "putting a floor on risk assets”. This time they mean stocks and bonds and not commodities.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Stocks Limit Up, VIX Plunges Most on Record, Goldman Sachs Announces Perfect Quarter / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Mike_Shedlock
Today in response to an unprecedented $1 trillion Euro aid package (see Shock and Awe Part II; Fed Joins the Battle; Short Squeeze Coming, Then What?), futures opened lock limit up and the NYSE Invoked Rule 48 to Suspend Price Indications Before Open.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Short-term Trading Forecasts for Stock Market, Gold, and U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
As we all know, last weeks stock market blip/mini crash was very emotional for those of you watching or trading it live. A lot of money changed hands last week and you either lost a bundle or made a bundle…
I did send out some charts and a video on Thursday night about the market crash/recovery if you have not seen it. It’s called “Stock Market Micro Intraday Crash Shows Us Where The Safe Havens Are”.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
Don't Blink Or You Will Miss The Stock Market Crash! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Dow Crashed on Thursday
The bottom line is that NO ONE SAW THURSDAYS CRASH Coming - NO ONE! Because it is Impossible to Forecast Stock Market Crashes as I have iterated several times over the years and in the Inflation Mega-trend Ebook. Anyone that says they saw it coming are giving you a load of B.S.
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Saturday, May 08, 2010
Stocks Tumble Again and U.S. Treasury Bonds Spike on Panic Buying / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 290,000 in April, the unemployment rate edged up to 9.9 percent, and the labor force increased sharply, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in manufacturing, professional and business services, health care, and leisure and hospitality. Federal government employment also rose, reflecting continued hiring of temporary workers for Census 2010.
Friday, May 07, 2010
What Next? Financial Crises, Manipulated Markets and Investor Opportunity / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“If we do nothing, we’re headed for a real crisis.” Jack Bogle, Founder, Vanguard Funds
For several weeks we have been warning that an Equities Takedown was impending, culminating with last week’s Article entitled “Trap For Equities Bulls! Opportunity for Others”.
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
ECB Decides What to Do With Bankrupt Greece / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
By The Mole on 6 May 2010 at 12:52Category: Market Commentary, Market Watch by The Mole 1 Comment A sea of red in global equity markets confirms that the Greek crisis has gone global as worries brought more peripheral panic in the PIIGS. ECB member Axel Weber said there is a threat of “grave contagion effects” from the debt crisis and an unnamed official of the central bank was quoted as saying that there were now current plans for QE.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Wild Market Swings For Stocks, Gold, U.S. Dollar and Oil Just Beginning … / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Larry_Edelson
If you think the recent swings in the markets are over, or extreme, think again: The wild swings are merely the beginning of the next phase of the sovereign debt crisis, and, they are also bound to get more violent in the months ahead.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Bull Market or Bubble? How to Spot the Difference / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Paul_Mladjenovic
To build wealth (or to avoid losing it), it is obviously important to discern where to put your money and where NOT to put it. That discernment is greatly tied to understanding which securities or assets will have are experiencing bullish or bearish conditions. In recent years many investors were fooled into thinking that a particular asset class was in a bull market when in actuality it was a in a “bubble”, which is the precursor to a bearish decline.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Greece Debt Crisis Storm Cripples Stock Market Rally Resulting Stock Price Churn / News_Letter / Financial Markets 2010
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterMay 2nd, 2010 Issue #26 Vol. 4
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
How to Protect Your Wealth from the Greek Debt Crisis Calamity / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Claus_Vogt
The Greek government is bankrupt. Simply put: It has systematically spent much more than it could afford. Now the inevitable day of reckoning has arrived.
A 110-billion euro bailout package by other European governments and the IMF has been announced. But can this political rescue solve Greece’s underlying problems?
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
The Great Reflation, The Mother of all Financial Experiments / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: John_Mauldin
Let me start this week's Outside the Box by venting a little anger. It now looks like almost 30% of the Greek financing will come from the IMF, rather than just a small portion. And since 40% of the IMF is funded by US taxpayers, and that debt will be JUNIOR to current bond holders (if the rumors are true) I can't tell you how outraged that makes me.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Monday Munificence, Greece “Fixed” for Only $146Bn, Who’s Next? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Yay, Greece is fixed…. again.
Now we only have to worry about Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal and, of course, the UK - who all have WORSE Sovereign Debt to GDP ratios than Spain (who are up next on the "wall of worry" the markets are climbing) while we pretend that the US is in "good" shape because we "only" have $15Tn in debt on a $14Tn economy, which is how we, through the IMF, were able to write Greece a $20Bn check this weekend.