Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Saturday, November 06, 2010
Don’t Fight the Fed / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Joseph_Toronto
Does this rule still really apply?
Comparisons of economic conditions of today with those of the Great Depression abound, as well as comparisons with Japan’s “lost decades”, most implying that we are doomed to a repeat of those woeful eras. We know of course that the Fed did everything wrong in the 30′s and made things worse. Beginning in 1990, the Bank of Japan did everything right but it did no good. Why would this time around be any different?
Friday, November 05, 2010
The Fed Bubble Making Machine Is Cranking Up! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Sy_Harding
The Federal Reserve has cranked up the bubble-machine again, pumping up opportunities as well as risk.
In doing so it is on the wrong side of the economic cycle again, as it so often has been in the past, beginning to ease too late to prevent recessions, and then continuing to ease too long after recoveries are underway, creating bubbles.
Friday, November 05, 2010
Stock Market Federally Funded Friday / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
I feel like I’m driving in a gasoline truck at a 100 mph and towards a brick wall, says Brian Kelly. And Ben Bernanke just lit a match. I can’t help but worry that this ends badly. - Fast Money's Brian Kelly
I also remain skeptical, adds Steve Cortes. The unanimous opinion sees to be the market can not go lower and I find it reminiscent of the rhetoric we heard right before the tech bubble burst. I want to know what the Fed sees that’s so dire that it’s required them to take drastic steps, muses Guy Adami. I guess it doesn’t matter because the market just wants to go higher. But the market action has the feeling to me of a blow-off top. I don’t know when it ends, but I suspect it ends extraordinarily badly.
Friday, November 05, 2010
Stock Market S&P 500 May Be Headed to 1,256 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Friday’s better than expected employment report aligns well with the market’s post-QE2 interpretation the economy is in a little better shape than most believe. Now that mid-terms, QE2, and the employment report are in the rearview mirror, it is a good time to catch our breath and discern what may be in store over the next week or two.
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Friday, November 05, 2010
Stock Market Mid-Term Election Rallies Analysis / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Zeal_LLC
The highly-anticipated 2010 mid-term elections are finally over, a huge relief if you hate politics and government meddling in our lives as much as I do. Now that the American people have fired the arrogant politicians who refused to listen to the will of their tax-paying constituents, we can get back to focusing on the financial markets. So how do the stock markets tend to perform after mid-term elections?
Friday, November 05, 2010
Stock Market BubbleOmics: S&P 500 Race to 1,300 by Christmas? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Andrew_Butter
Well it’s nice to see that Ben has managed to un-leash some good-old-fashioned Irrational Exuberance with the latest round of Quantitative Easing. That’s something that’s been sadly missing over the past few years…I wonder why?
It’s probably good news too that he has apparently given up on his strategy to persuade people to buy AAA rated collateralized debt obligations lovingly crafted by Goldman Sachs, by creating a “market” and of course a “mark-to-market”. That didn’t work very well because sadly, most people figured out that if the Sucker of Last Resort is the only player in town (as in the Wall Street line “the value of something is what you can sell it for to some poor sucker dumber than you”), well that doesn’t actually constitute a “market”.
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Friday, November 05, 2010
Finance — A Dysfunctional System / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Barry_Elias
In 1993, I commented to a colleague that the market seemed to be appreciating more rapidly than the underlying dynamics would suggest.
Was something afoot?
Friday, November 05, 2010
Republican Victory and Fed Quantitative Easing Mean It’s Time to Shift From Commodities to U.S. Stocks / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
The U.S. economic and investment world has changed fundamentally in the last 48 hours from two key events:
•The massive Republican victory in Tuesday's midterm elections.
•And the $600 billion worth of bond purchases by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
These two events have changed the trajectory of the U.S. economy, probably for the next two years.
Friday, November 05, 2010
Does Anyone Care about the U.S. Jobs Data? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Trader_Mark
I've already figured out tomorrow's analysis on the monthly jobs data
If it's worst than expected, we have QE2
If it's better than expected, we have QE2
Friday, November 05, 2010
Stock Market Huge Up-Session, although Nasdaq Trails / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a huge up-day today, gapping up big time at the opening, pulling back slightly early on, and then reaching the session highs on the Nasdaq 100 early in the morning. After that they moved sideways, just slightly lower on the NDX and slightly higher on the S&P 500. Late in the day the SPX surged to new highs, but the NDX failed to confirm, possibly setting up a negative divergence, but we'll see if there's any follow-through on the NDX to confirm tomorrow.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Stock Market Insiders are Running for the Exits, Should You Follow? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Q1_Publishing
The Federal Reserve announced its going to pump more than $800 billion of new cash into the economy. Financial assets, as they’ve done for the past two years, have responded strongly to the pump.
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Thursday, November 04, 2010
Inflationary Thursday - Benny Drops the Big One! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
That was the actual military policy of the United States of America and the rest of the World for about 30 years. We had Presidents and Kings and thousands of bureaucrats - the top minds of 2 generations - all getting together on a regular basis and coming up with or buying into insanity like the system on the right. We look back at it now and say "Gee, what were we thinking" but the whole World went down this path for a while.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Politics and Secular Stocks Bull/Bear Markets, The Fourth Turning Crisis / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: Tony_Caldaro
With the 2010 elections now history, Republicans regaining control in the House, the public is now optimistic again that change will take place. They are likely to be correct. However, the change may be from the Democratic - just pass the bills don’t read them – agenda, to a Stalemate - just vote against the bills don’t read them – agenda. Historically, this has been good for the equities market and the economy overall.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Stock and Commodity Market's Bullish Reaction to QE2 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Ciovacco
One day does not make a trend, but sometimes early leadership after an event like the November 3rd QE2 announcement holds for the next leg up in asset prices. The early read after the first hour and forty-five minutes in the new QE2 world is bullish. With markets extended and sentiment getting a little on the giddy side, a correction could come at anytime. Given what we know as of the November 3rd close, the odds favor risk assets making higher highs before we turn the page on 2010. If a correction comes, it should represent a buying opportunity. Early leaders include the NASDAQ (QQQQ) and emerging market stocks (EEM).
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Stock Market Continues to March Higher After Election / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
With the election over and congress divided, it may be difficult for the president to get much done. None of this will take affect until the near year but traders are asking the big question… Will the government work together as a team or will it be a stalemate?
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Investors Find Solace in Emerging Market Stocks Amid U.S. Economic Turmoil / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Maybe you've noticed that many of the stocks rising through the ranks of the broader market lately have a foreign accent.
The Claymore/AlphaShares China Small Cap exchange-traded fund (ETF) (NYSE: HAO), MV MarketVectors Indonesia Index ETF (IDX), and the PowerShares Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF (NYSE: PCY) are just a few of the ETFs I've recommended in the past that are leading the market higher.
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Thursday, November 04, 2010
Republican Midterm Election Victories Could Sink Stocks and Bonds / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Markets have rallied on the belief that resounding Republican victories in yesterday's (Tuesday's) midterm elections will reset Washington agendas and lead to more business-friendly policies.
However, market participants may be surprised to find that the successful pursuit of three major Republican principles could initially sink stocks and bonds before creating a base from which they might rally later in 2011.
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Thursday, November 04, 2010
Stock Market Indices Rally After Post-FOMC Dip to Close Higher / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a down morning and then vacillated wildly after the FOMC announcement. This included a sharp dip down to 2132 on the Nasdaq 100, reaching trend line and moving average support, and a dip near 1184 on the S&P 500, also testing trend line and moving average support. But when that held the indices ripped to the upside, swinging around from 2132 to 2160 on the NDX and from 1184 to 1198 on the SPX. They backed off in the last hour, but came on again in the last 15 minutes to close up on the day.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Ben Bernanke Trying To Inflate The Stock Market.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
sent that message loud and clear today. He wants the bond market to die. He wants the dollar to die, and he wants the stock market to rise in an effort to keep the economy on the road to recovery. Without a dead dollar and without a strong bond market, money won't rotate in to equities. If money rolls in to equities then the stock market climbs giving people more money to throw back in to the economy. A simple equation really, and he's working hard to make it all come true. He will flood cash in to the system. He said he'll do whatever it takes to keep our economy humming along.
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Republicans Take the House and QE Too! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
By Now, like many Americans, the Democrats know what it's like to lose their House.
Back in the mid-1800's, the nation had another kind of Tea Party as the Whigs became a successful 3rd party, even going so far as to put two men in the White House - William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor plus Millard Fillmore, who succeeded "Old Rough and Ready" who died just after a year in office but that was a long term compared to Harrison, who caught pneumonia making a long inauguration speech in the freezing rain and died of it a month later despite attempts to cure him with opium, castor oil and leeches - treatments we are likely to see again as the Republicans vow to repeal Health Care legislation.