Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Investors Surmounting the Wealth Destruction Dollar Debasement Juggernaut / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The Dollar's decline is a result of the "quantitative easing" the Fed has been stepping up recently. Quantitative Easing is a fancy term for printing fiat money and exchanging it for long term good and garbage securities held by Wall Street firms, as part of the president's Working Group's activities. The money has debased the value of the Dollar, and found its way into commodities, stock and bond markets. At some point here, stocks will no longer remain in an uptrend, as the Dollar's debasement takes its toll.
Saturday, October 02, 2010
China, The Tale of the Asian Tiger Boosting Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
The Hang Seng rose 179 points in today’s trading and finished down 20 for the day – THAT’S how bad the open was! The Nikkei finished an up and down 100-point swing up 34 points at 9,404 but dove into the close along with the dollar (our 3am trade), which now can be bought with just 83 Yen. The Shanghai, on the other hand, was feeling hot, hot, hot and gained 1.7% just behind the BSE, which flew up 1.9% to take back the position of Global Leader.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 01, 2010
Stock Market Seasonality Revisited! / Stock-Markets / Seasonal Trends
By: Sy_Harding
Since we are within a few weeks of the potential beginning of the market’s historically favorable season, it’s time to again bring up the subject of the market’s seasonality.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Stock Market In Ben We Trust / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Kevin_George
Global indices have been powering higher, led by strong U.S. equities and a falling dollar, which has seen the largest September rise on Wall Street since 1939. This has been bullish for all ‘risk’ correlated trades with commodities and foreign currencies being strongly bid.
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Friday, October 01, 2010
David Tepper's Unrestrained Optimism on Prospects of Fed Money Printing / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Michael_Pento
Billionaire David Tepper, one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world, attracted much attention in a September 24th CNBC appearance by presenting such unrestrained optimism that even the normally buoyant network hosts were somewhat surprised. In a rare interview, Tepper argued that all asset classes would go higher no matter if the US economy recovers or not (with the possible exception of the US dollar). His faith is derived from the belief that even if the US economy deteriorates and fails to raise markets through organic growth, the Fed will certainly step in with enough liquidity to push up stock and bond prices.
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Friday, October 01, 2010
Institutional Buying and Selling Levels Predict the Stock Market's Direction? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Marty_Chenard
Using Institutional Buying and Selling data is not a trading system, but some people do base their trades on Institutional Buying and Selling activity.
We post the Institutional buying and selling data everyday on our paid sites, and today's chart shows the "Net" of Institutional buying minus the amount of Institutional selling for any given day.
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Friday, October 01, 2010
Stock Market Rally, The Biggest Disconnect of All Time / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Mike_Larson
I’m seeing one of the biggest disconnects of all time — between the underlying U.S. economy and the performance of the stock market. Just consider what we’ve learned about the economic fundamentals in the past several days …
Read full article... Read full article...• Consumer confidence plunged in September — to 48.5 from 53.2 in August. That was far below the 53 reading economists were expecting, and the worst in seven months.
Friday, October 01, 2010
China PMI Cheers Stock Markets While PIGS Fly Tighter / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
US macro data sent the markets higher initially Thursday (GDP beat 1.7% v 1.6% cons; Chicago PMI 60.4 v 55.5 cons; weekly jobless data was also better), with the S&P500 breaking through the 1150 mark to new highs. However, the break did not last long as the futures desk’s month end flow was better to sell (the chatter from the US was that asset allocators were going to have to dump equities on the close given the outperformance of equities in September). The selling pressure eroded the majority of macro-led gains, leading to a finish in negative territory on the day.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Stock Market Big Rally Gives Up All Gains and Then Some... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mark_McMillan
The major indexes gap up and rally on news that Q2 GDP growth was slightly better than expected then all those gains went away with a trip lower by a like amount and a finish in the red...
Recommendation: Take no action.
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Friday, October 01, 2010
FTSE Stock Index Rresilient Hesitation Encourages Bullish Optimism / Stock-Markets / UK Stock Market
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
Impending spending cuts and VAT increases scheduled for the start of 2011 may at best depress growth for a couple of quarters and at worst risk a double dip recession. Despite this the FTSE is only around 200 points off its 2010 highs.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Nasdaq Stock Market Not Doom & Gloom; Cyclical Investment Opportunity! / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: Investmentscore.com
Unfortunately investors as a group are slow to adapt to change, which can be a harsh and costly lesson to learn. But where there is turmoil there is also opportunity for those who can recognize change and make that adaptation.
From 1980 to 2000 the world enjoyed expanding credit and a seemingly forever growing stock market. By the end of the twenty year run in stocks the predictable investment environment led advisors and investors to believe in an apathetic strategy of ‘buy and hold’ and ‘forget about your investments’.
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Friday, October 01, 2010
Stock Market Volatile Session Closes Lower / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a volatile and difficult day, and ended lower today. The day started out, however, with a gap to the upside. They ran hard to reach new rally highs at 2029.65 on the Nasdaq 100, but pulled back at the end of the day to below 2000.
Net of the day, the Dow, which got up to 10,948.88, closed at 10,788.05, down 47.23, about a 140-50 point reversal, not the best result today. The S&P 500 closed down 3.53 at 1141.20 after being as high as 1157.16, a new rally high there. The Nasdaq 100 lost 11.04 to 1998.04.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Stock Market Confounds Press and BlogosFear September Plunge Fears By Closing Up 8% / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The stock market rallied during september right from the start of the month without any significant reactions against a solid uptrend that saw the Dow close at 10,788 (up 7.7%) which is contrary to the mainstream press and the BlogosFear mantra of first having pumped investors full of hindenberg crash omen fears during much of August, which then continued to scream Fear in a near relentless mantra for the whole of September by dredging up historic precedents that September is usually one of the worst months for stocks and therefore investors should seek to sell ahead of an anticipated slump or worse as illustrated below that NEVER materialised:
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Stock Market Resistance Proves Insurmountable... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mark_McMillan
The major indexes weren't able to cross above overhead resistance so followed the path of least resistance which was downward...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Time for a Paradigm Shift in Your Investment Portfolio / Stock-Markets / Options & Warrants
By: Dudley_Baker
With gold and silver hitting new highs the markets are finally getting very exciting for those of us investing in the natural resource sector. Great gains are being made and the big move which we expect is still in front of us and could possibly unfold within the next 6 months.
This is the time investors should be asking themselves if they are correctly positioned to maximize their gains should this big move occur. One of the legends in the precious metals sector once said, "An investor invests 100% of their money to make 10% a year while a speculator will invest 10% of their money in the attempt to make over 100%."
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Market Tipping Points for Commodities, U.S. Dollar, Gold and Yuan / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Christopher_Laird
Now that Summer just ends, the Summer doldrums of inactive markets abates. What is next?
One thing that concerns me is a repeat of quasi bubble peaking behavior in general commodities – as well as gold in my view, as the USD also shows a bit of weakness after a year long rally to the low 80’s on the USDX. Also of a bit of quandary is the Yuan’s strength, and a bit of competitive currency devaluation amidst the other major currencies, with the Yen peaking a bit and foreboding a further unwind of the Yen carry trade?
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Market Report on SP500, Crude Oil, Gold and U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Wednesday the market didn’t tell us anything new. The equities market is still over extended on the daily chart but the market is refusing to break down. Each time there has been seen selling in the market over the past two weeks, the market recovers. Equities and the dollar have been trading with an inverse relationship and it seems to drop every in value each selling pressure enters the market, which naturally lifts stocks.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Stock Market Narrow, Losing Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices vacillated back and forth today, continued their consolidation, but held support while being repelled by resistance. Net on the day they were down a bit.
The day started out with a little bit of a gap down. They then bounced to retest the highs on the Nasdaq 100, but fell far short on the S&P 500. At that point 2000 support held on the NDX, as did 1140 on the SPX. They bounced again, but were unable to get back up to the early session highs on the NDX, although surpassed them on the SPX. They backed off mid-day, but in the early afternoon came on again only to fail at resistance and sell off over the course of the last 90 minutes. But in the last 30-35 minutes or so, they bounced again to pare back the losses.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Stock Market Basing Out Below S&P 500 1160... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
By no means does that guarantee that the S&P 500 will ever break through this critical long-term down trend line that would send the bears running for the hills, if it ever did make the move. We have the GDP Report tomorrow along with jobless claims. Two huge reports that tells the market where things are on Main Street. A good report from either one can be a strong catalyst to getting closer to that holy grail of levels at 1160. But if both come in poorly, it will take the market down and test that critical 1131 all over again. That would be third time it does so over the short-term and wouldn't be the very best of behaviors for the bulls.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Markets Waiting for Anglo Irish Clarity / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
US stocks opened lower Tuesday selling off sharply in response to a much weaker than expected consumer confidence number. But after the knee jerk reaction lower, equities found their footing and grinded higher for the remainder of the session with major indices finishing up 5.54 points on the S&P 500. Walgreen Co. led a rally in consumer staples and health companies and investors speculated the Federal Reserve will buy more debt to safeguard the economy. Walgreen, the largest U.S. drugstore chain, surged 11% as earnings topped estimates. Elsewhere Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson paced gains in health care shares as the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by pharmaceutical companies seeking to block thousands of public hospitals from suing over a federal discount drug program. But Monsanto slid 8.1% on concern its SmartStax corn seeds aren’t performing as well as predicted.