Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
UK Economy Booms Whilst U.S. Stutters, Stocks Fail to Follow Crash Script / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Did the stock market crash Monday ? Nope, Tuesday ? Nope. How about Wednesday, Thursday or Friday ? The Dow closed down 63 points on the week at 10,150 (10,213) which given the much publicised Hindenburg Crash Omen, is not exactly following the script though off course the Hindenburg Omen has plenty of get out of jail cards in the small print which ensures that all eventualities are covered ( The Hindenburg Stock Market Omen Doomed to Crash and Burn? ).
Sunday, August 29, 2010
High Volume Resistance Plagues Gold, Silver, Crude Oil & SP500 Index / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last week was a relatively strong week for stocks and commodities. Although the SP500 closed slightly lower on the week the price action Friday was strong. The recent pop in commodities has everyone feeling good and bullish again and we all know how the market works… When everyone is feeling good the market has a way of shaking things up.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Stock Market Dumb Money Turns Bearish Which is Bullish / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
By: Guy_Lerner
As expected, the "dumb money" has turned bearish on the markets, and this is a bullish signal.
The "Dumb Money" indicator (see figure 1) looks for extremes in the data from 4 different groups of investors who historically have been wrong on the market: 1)Investors Intelligence; 2) Market Vane; 3) American Association of Individual Investors; and 4) the put call ratio. The "Dumb Money" indicator has turned bearish and this is a bullish signal.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Investors Don’t Get Trapped by Market Micro-Bubbles, the Silent Wealth Killers / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Jared_Levy
Today's article is about market bubbles. Right now, you're probably wondering why I am talking about market bubbles when the S&P 500 is trading down 6.5% since the first trading day of January this year, and down 33% from the 2007 highs. On top of that, home prices have fallen 30% (on average) to 2002-2003 levels, and unemployment is nearly 10%. Frankly, most of the globe is struggling to pay its bills. So doesn't all of this mean any kind of market bubble has burst? Well, the answer is, not all of them.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Stock Market Flash Crash Prompts Investors to Flee Equities / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Whitney
Robert Herz was forced to resign from his job as as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) because he insisted that the banks assign a fair value to their assets. That's not what you'll read in the papers, but it's true just the same. Herz was a major proponent of mark-to-market accounting, a simple means of determining the value of a bond or security by comparing the price of similar assets sold at market. In other words, Herz is a defender of universally-accepted accounting principles, which is why he was terminated, er, I mean, resigned. According to the Wall Street Journal:
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Stock Market S&P 950, Not so Fast / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Toby_Connor
The better than expected GDP numbers threw a slight monkey wrench in the trading plan (for you traders out there). I was expecting a gap down open that would break through the 1040 pivot. The plan was to buy into that gap with a stop under the morning intraday low. The market did break slightly below 1040 (1039.70) so in theory if one was quick they could have jumped in right there. I doubt anyone was that quick though so I suspect almost no one caught the exact low. Perfect timing isn’t critical though if this is a daily cycle bottom, as we should have at least 2 to 3 weeks of upside ahead of us. I’m assuming the market doesn’t drop back down to test the lows on next Friday’s jobs report.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Stocks Secular Bull and Bear Markets and the Dark Side of Budget Deficits / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: John_Mauldin
Secular Bull and Bear Markets
It's Not the (Stupid) Economy
The Consequences of a Credit Crisis
The Dark Side of Deficits
In the pre-crisis days, I used to write about things like P/E ratios, secular bull and bear markets, valuations, and all of the things we used to think about in the Old Normal. But what about those topics as we begin our trip through the New Normal? It's time to reconvene class and think through what might change and what will remain the same. I think this will be a fun read - and let me tip my hand. I come out on the side of a new secular bull that gets us back to trend - but not just yet. The New Normal has to have its turn first. (Note: this will print out longer than usual, as there are a lot of charts.)
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Two Ways to Prepare for Shock Events in the Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Bryan_Rich
With bond yields and stock markets in the world’s major developed economies petering away, more people are asking: Where can we find investment returns?
Wall Street’s answer: Emerging markets.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Private Investors Boycott Stocks, Bernanke Promises Fed Action to Ensure Economic Recovery / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
U.S. Economy Grew a Revised 1.6% in Second Quarter - (Bloomberg) The U.S. economy grew at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter, less than previously calculated, as companies reined in inventories and the trade deficit widened.
The revised gain in gross domestic product was bigger than the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News and compares with a 2.4 percent estimate issued last month, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Corporate profits grew last quarter at the slowest rate in a year and employee wages in the prior three months were revised lower.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Stock Market Indices Close Out Week with Strong Snapback Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a very strong snapback session to close out the week on apparent short-covering and bargain hunting.
In the morning they opened firm, but then rolled over hard on negative economic news, taking the Nasdaq 100 under 1750 and the S&P 500 under 1045, down near the key 1040 area that was reached last Wednesday. When the NDX made new lows and the SPX failed to confirm and held the earlier support low, that created a positive divergence.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Stock Market Reverses After Intel Warns....Classic.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
Intel Corporation (INTC) has been the source of many big reversals in the stock market over its career on Wall Street. Sometimes it has set the top of the market and at other times it has set the bottom, at least for the short-term. Today we saw it put in the short-term bottom.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Stock Market Ostrich Investors With Trillions of Dollars of Capital Sat on the Sidelines / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Zeal_LLC
Ostrich investors are a major driving force in today’s financial markets. As the name implies, they are hiding their heads in the sand like the popular literary perception of the king of birds. Burned in 2008’s epic stock-market panic, they have shunned active investing ever since. Trillions of dollars of their capital languishes idle on the sidelines, earning zero in money markets or near-record-low yields in Treasuries.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Why the Stock Market Weekly Charts Work / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: INO
Many traders get so involved with the market on a daily or even an intraday basis, that they somehow lose out on the bigger picture. Weekly charts are enormously helpful in giving clues to the future direction of the market.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Stock Markets Rise On Higher Than Expected U.S. GDP Q2 Growth / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Stocks Rise On Higher Than Expected US GDPUS stocks were up Friday, sending the Dow Jones back above the 10000 level after numbers for US GDP Q2 economic growth were slightly above analysts expectations. The Dow climbed 44 points, or 0.4 percent, to 10030 on the news. The Dow closed below the psychologically important 10000 mark on Thursday for the first time since early July, due in part to jitters ahead of Friday morning’s report on gross domestic product.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Why Mergers and Acquisitions Activity Is Heating Up / Stock-Markets / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_and_Markets
Jeff Manera writes: The markets have been taking a beating over the past few weeks. Plunging existing home sales, disappointing jobless claims and weak manufacturing activity numbers are to blame.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Stock Market Bulls Rally and Bears Pounce... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mark_McMillan
The major indexes rally attempt is shut down by pessimistic bears...
Recommendation: Take no action.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
The Upcoming Stock Market 4-year Cycle Bottom / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: Clif_Droke
Many observers have been wondering if the upcoming 4-year cycle bottom in a few weeks will exert a negative impact on stock prices when the previous 4-year cycle bottom in 2006 barely registered. You may recall that the period from August through December of 2006 saw a stellar performance from the market that left many market technicians perplexed as to why the 4-year cycle bottom left no discernible impact on stock prices at that time. Many of them tried to excuse the lack of downward bias in the broad market in the fall of ’06 by saying that the 4-year cycle would bottom later that year, despite the fact that the 4-year cycle is fixed and always bottoms around the end of the third quarter in late September/early October. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Hindenburg Omen - A More Balanced View / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Chris_Ciovacco
In the last few weeks, Wall Street has been spooked by a technical occurrence know as the Hindenburg Omen. The basis for the concern is we have recently seen both relatively high numbers of new 52-week highs and new 52-week lows. Wikipedia has a good summary of the Hindenburg Omen calculations.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Stock Market Bulls Weigh In... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mark_McMillan
European markets and Asian markets slide but bulls buy after gap down open...
Recommendation: Take no action.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Time to Invest in Russia? / Stock-Markets / Russia
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Of all the unpleasant societies in which to live, Vladimir Putin's Russia is among the nastiest. Journalists and businessmen disappear, a knock on the door at 3:00am can prove fatal, and nothing gets done without endless side-payments to obscure fixers.