Category: Stock Markets 2011
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Friday, December 17, 2010
U.S. Treasury Yields Suggest Stocks Correction in Q1 2011 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
RSI overbought readings on U.S. Treasury yields have corresponded to corrections in the S&P 500 over the past 5 years. Since 2005, levels of 70 or higher have generated a pullback in price levels for stocks and a retracement for bond yields. The current RSI levels for 10-year and 5-year U.S. Treasuries are nearing that important overbought range. The present RSI readings for mid-term yields are at 69.20 (Chart 1) and short term yields are at 66.28 (Chart 2).
Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Stock Market 2011 Outlook Remains Bullish, Risk Assets Respond to QE / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
With even the ‘new normal’ crowd upgrading their economic forecasts for 2011, the Federal Reserve prepared to fully implement QE2, and Ben Bernanke leaving the door open for QE3, it is a good time to take a step back and look at the battle between the acceptance of risk and risk aversion.
Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 13, 2010
U.S. Stock Market Reaches a Pivotal Point as Goldman Sachs Forecasts 2011 Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
Jon D. Markman writes: Stocks clicked around the flat line much of the past week until the tumblers of the lock finally fell into place and prices were freed to go higher on Thursday and Friday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index quietly gained 1.2% over the week to close at a new two-year high, while the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 1.7% to a three-year high and the Russell 2000 small-caps rose 2.7%.
Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Should U.S. Investors Fear a Japan Deflation Scenario? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
With Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve now into their second round of quantitative easing, a lot of investors are becoming increasingly worried about the U.S. “becoming like Japan.”
In short, they’re starting to wonder whether the entire U.S. economy is entering stagnation so deep that all the money pumping in the world won’t get us out of it — the very same condition that Japan has been suffering with since the early 1990s.
Read full article... Read full article...