Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
How the VAR Model and Japan's Tragedy Affect Investors / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Frank_Holmes
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Japan. The videos, images and stories of the devastation caused by last week's earthquake and tsunami have touched our hearts and rattled investor psyches around the world.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
What China's Rising Wages Mean for Investors / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
There's a sea change underway in China's economy - one that's evident in soaring prices, shrinking trade surpluses, and higher property values. And it's being driven by higher wages for workers that for decades have been grossly underpaid.
From the country's fast-growing urban centers to its frontier countryside, wages are rising rapidly across China.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
How to Invest in the Third Year of a Stocks Bull Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: The current bull market in U.S. stocks celebrated its second birthday on March 9.
With human beings, a 2-year-old is a lusty toddler with a lot more growing to do. For a bull-market-run in stocks, however - particularly a bull market as vigorous as this one has been - the two-year mark is a good time to start searching for some serious signs of aging.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Stock Market Surges On Overseas News... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
A great day for the market today as very good news out of Libya sent the futures rocking higher. Democracy is close at hand. The way it should be, of course. Equal rights for everyone. Autocratic rule about to be replaced, and that's what that country needs in the very worst way. It looks like that's coming to a head with Khadafy on his way out shortly.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Economic Disasters Which Threaten To Rip World Financial Markets To Shreds / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Chris_Kitze
Economic Collapse writes: 2011 has already been the most memorable year in ages and we haven't even reached April yet. Revolutions have swept the Middle East, an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami have hit Japan, civil war has erupted in Libya, the price of oil has been soaring and the entire globe is teetering on the brink of economic collapse. It seems like almost everything that can be shaken is being shaken. Unfortunately, it does not appear that things are going to settle down any time soon. The Japanese economy has been dealt a critical blow, the European sovereign debt crisis could flare up again at any moment and the U.S. economy could potentially plunge into another recession by the end of the year. The global economy and world financial markets were really struggling to recover even when things were relatively stable. If all of this global instability gets even worse it could literally rip world financial markets apart.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Stock Energy, Materials, and Industrial Sectors Are Well Positioned / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Since the markets have pulled back significantly from their recent highs, it is a good time to revisit our big picture investment strategy. Attractive sectors, based on fundamental and technical data, include energy (XLE) and industrial stocks (XLI). While a good case for stocks in the materials sector (XLB) also exists, we prefer the materials themselves (commodities) relative to stocks.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
The Interest Rate Mega-Trend Ebook and Forthcoming Stocks Stealth Bull Market Update / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Dear Reader
The New UK Interest Rate Mega-Trend 85 page ebook is now complete and available for download.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Stocks Falter, But Fed Policy Favors Bull Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes:
Stocks spent the past week in the wash cycle, as bears finally cleaned up to the tune of a loss of 1.5% in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a loss of 1.9% in the S&P 500, 2.6% in the Nasdaq Composite Index and 1% in the Russell 2000. They rebounded on Thursday and Friday with more of a whimper than a bang, as breadth and volume were a lot weaker than the headline gains in the Dow would lead you to believe.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Stocks, Gold and Oil Markets Weekend Report / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Andre_Gratian
Overview
On Friday, the indices had an opportunity to demonstrate that they had ended their correction and had reversed. They failed to do so. The SPX could not break out of its secondary channel, and the lack of readiness was particularly evident in the QQQQ.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Robert Prechter's Stock Market Forecast 12 Page Report Download / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: EWI
Announcement: Elliott Wave International has released a free issue of Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist. It includes more of Robert Prechter's experience than you’ll ever read in a single issue -- all 30-plus years of it. What matters is that he uses his experience at a moment when it can do the most good, namely when investors are most vulnerable. This is a unique opportunity for you to see what Prechter’s subscribers see. Don't miss out! This free issue is only available through March 21. Learn more about Prechter’s 12-page issue – it’s yours for free.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Buying Opportunity At Hand But Vigilant Awareness is Necessary / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Steven_Vincent
In recent BullBear Market Reports I was able to successfully identify the apparent Wave 3 of (3) top at SPX 1344. I advised BullBear Trading members that I was taking 40% of my long position off the table and closing long positions in Nikkei as well as exiting short US Treasuries. I might have taken more of the position off but there was some doubt, until the Japan Panic hit, about the degree of the correction at hand. All in all, the analysis and timing were quite solid.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Stock Market Breaks Support, Nasdaq Broadening Top Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The FDIC Goes Quiet on Closures
The FDIC Failed Bank List announced no failures this weekend. The total bank failures for the year number 25. There may be a moratorium of thing closures. See the next article.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Stock Market Correction is Nearly Over / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Tony_Caldaro
Markets, worldwide, had some serious declines early in the week but rebounded by week’s end to lessen the losses for the week. Japan’s Nikkei had nearly a 20% decline in two days but recovered to end the week -10.2%. In the US the SPX/DOW were -1.7%, and the NDX/NAZ were -3.1%. Asian markets overall were -3.4%, Europe markets -2.9%, the DJ World index was -2.0%, but the Commodity equity group was +0.9%.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Interest Rate Trends Impact on the Dow and FTSE Stock Market Indices / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The consensus view as continuously pumped out in the mainstream financial press and further regurgitated at length in the blogosfear is that rising interest rates will negatively impact upon stock price trends due to higher yielding bonds competing against stock dividend yields as well as acting to suppress economic activity and therefore corporate earnings growth.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Stock Market Fault Lines / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
What else can go wrong? In the last decade, investors have withstood a barrage of seismic catastrophes along fault lines of vulnerability.
Our political leaders have initiated military conflicts that were justified from prevarication and outright lies. It seems that all wars are fought on the foundation of a lie.
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Yen Intervention, What a Manipulated Joke the Markets Are! / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: PhilStockWorld
Of course, that’s why we love them, right? But, sometimes, even when we’re playing along – the manipulation we see is so sickening, we still feel the need to declare SHENANIGANS! Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Key Market Trends between QE1 and QE2 / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: Asha_Bangalore
The Fed's latest policy statement suggested that it is most likely to complete the second round of quantitative easing (QE2) by June 2011. Discussions are underway about the status of financial markets after the termination of QE2 and if additional support will be necessary for self-sustained economic growth. In the interim, it is informative to trace the behavior of markets when QE1 was completed and QE2 was not in place. Chairman Bernanke's August 2010 speech laid the foundation for expectations of QE2.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Stocks Lose Their Allure After the Japan Nuclear Meltdown / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
"Chernobyl solution" may be last resort for Japan reactors
(Reuters) That means the stricken complex is likely to become an open sore, leaking radioactive particles into the atmosphere, for weeks and possibly months before the Chernobyl solution could even be implemented.
Authorities say radiation outside the Japanese plant is not high enough to cause harm. Still, the 20 km (12 mile) exclusion zone around the plant may end up as a permanent no-man's land, a major problem for small, populous country. A 30 km (19 mile) exclusion zone remains around Chernobyl.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Reasons to Distrust the Stock Market Snap-Back Rally! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Sy_Harding
Thankfully the news out of Japan regarding the potential for nuclear meltdowns has subsided, and global stock markets have rallied for two days in relief. Many on Wall Street are claiming the correction in global stock markets is therefore over, and it’s a buying opportunity.
But let’s think this through and not react too quickly. The human toll and economic damage in Japan was from the earthquake, not the subsequent potential problems with nuclear plants.
Friday, March 18, 2011
What the Jump in Global Markets Volatility Means? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Julian_DW_Phillips
After the earthquake and Tsunami wreaked horrendous damage in Japan and was blamed for huge drops in equity and other markets, extreme volatility was the best description of most global markets for this last week. The media even blamed the nuclear threat in Japan for the fall in the Dow Jones in the U.S. Clearly, this was not the case, but the extreme nature of the volatility has raised large questions as to what really is going on globally. To see why there is such high volatility over global markets we have to stand back so as to see the full picture.
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