Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Friday, May 07, 2010
EXTEND & PRETEND: Shifting Risk to the Innocent / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Gordon_T_Long
Markets never repeat themselves but they often rhyme. This rally feels like the same sonnet we experienced in 1987. As in a sonnet, it is following a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.
In 1987 the rally began gaining steam in the spring when it already seemed overbought and extended. The rally had initially started in October 1986 at DOW 1400, but during the spring of 1987 it began to accelerate. It not only didn’t correct, but continued to gain momentum. Despite all the pundits saying it was about to correct, it just kept going up. By early fall the bears had capitulated and the public was scrambling to avoid missing further gains. They were quickly rewarded as the market moved even higher. No bad news, overextended fundamentals or technical warnings could stop the rise. The DOW was soon over 2700 for an approximate 93% rise.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Dow Plunges 1000, Closes Down 347, in Historic Session / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market had an epic day Thursday as the indices rolled over in the morning, accelerated in the afternoon, and then plunged with a huge spike down on heavy volume, reaching a negative tick of nearly 1700. The Nasdaq 100 dropped from over 1960 to nearly 1750, or 210 points. The Dow dropped more than 1000 and the S&P 500 over 100 points. But a vicious snapback rally ensued, and they took back about two-thirds to 3/4 of the losses.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Crash More to Come / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Dow Plunges Most Since 1987 Before Paring Losses - The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest intraday loss since the market crash of 1987, the
euro slid to a 14-month low and yields on Greek, Spanish and Italian bonds surged on concern European
leaders aren’t doing enough to stem the region’s debt crisis. U.S. Treasuries surged.
Friday, May 07, 2010
S&P 500 Loses 1150 in Crash, Panic, Confusion...Error? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
Today was a day I'll never forget. The most interesting day in my market life. What can one say when a market falls 1000 points on the Dow. Let's go over the set-up and how things worked out. What we can take from today ultimately.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Death, er… Debt Spirals; Blow Out and BLOW UP, The Sovereign Policies of Insolvency / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis
By: Ty_Andros
As the currency and financial systems of the developed world’s social-welfare-states head towards their doom, the battles between King Kong (Mother Nature and Darwin) versus Godzilla (public servants and banksters) continue. After generations of defying the reality that you must produce more than you consume, the social welfare states are being presented with the bill for their unpayable social obligations.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Robert Prechter Stock Market Crash Alert "A Deadly Bearish Big Picture" / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: EWI
"A Deadly Bearish Big Picture"
That's the headline Robert Prechter gave to his just-published Elliott Wave Theorist. You can read that entire 10-page issue right now -- for FREE!
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stock Market Foolish Thursday, Through the Looking Glass / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
"If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there." - The Cheshire Cat
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stock Market Panic Dow Crash 1000 Points Before Fed Steps in to Buy / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The sovereign debt crisis shock waves emanating out of Greece triggered a stock market Free fall crash today as the Dow sliced through support after support to all the way below Dow 10k, hitting a low of 9,872 before the Fed as part of the Plunge Protection Team (PPT) stepped in to halt the panic selling and triggering an equally phenomenal a 700 point reversal less than half an hour from today's close.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stock Market Investors In the Land of the Blind / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Brian_Bloom
The first five charts are all showing signs of weakness.
The following is a summary of what they show:
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
ECB Decides What to Do With Bankrupt Greece / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
By The Mole on 6 May 2010 at 12:52Category: Market Commentary, Market Watch by The Mole 1 Comment A sea of red in global equity markets confirms that the Greek crisis has gone global as worries brought more peripheral panic in the PIIGS. ECB member Axel Weber said there is a threat of “grave contagion effects” from the debt crisis and an unnamed official of the central bank was quoted as saying that there were now current plans for QE.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Wild Market Swings For Stocks, Gold, U.S. Dollar and Oil Just Beginning … / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Larry_Edelson
If you think the recent swings in the markets are over, or extreme, think again: The wild swings are merely the beginning of the next phase of the sovereign debt crisis, and, they are also bound to get more violent in the months ahead.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stocks Bull Market Waiting For Retail Investors Finally Climb Aboard / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Data shows that retail investors have not yet bought into the bull market. But when they eventually do regain their confidence, the market will soar to new heights.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Is the Stock Market Wave 4 Correction Over? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Dr_John_Trapp
MortiES’ EOCinco de Mayo Analysis ~ Is Wave 4 over? That is the question. Take a look at the chart below and you decide. I’m 80/20 on it being over based on the four points made on the chart. But there is still a potential for more downside, so trade carefully. Nothing that happened today was unexpected. Our scenario from days ago is still intact, so I’ll continue to follow an analysis that has been pretty spot on for this W4.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stock Market Downside Follow-Through / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices suffered another down day as a follow-up to yesterday's break, and confirmed that the downtrend may be underway.
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
The Moment of Truth Video for Gold, Silver, Oil and SP500 / Stock-Markets / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It has been an exciting couple weeks with the stock market slowly forming its top before breaking down this week. I have been warning everyone keep tightening your protective stops and to keep new positions small because once prices start to sell off they will most likely drop like a rock.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stock Market Easy Times Gone...Tough Times Here... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
How nice it was to nail that bull market run off the February lows and ride it all the way up. Although it felt bad nearing the end of the run up in terms of buying in to overbought, we did, and things went very well. Easy times. Parabolic move higher. It was all fun. Then came 37.3% more bulls than bears. That level of sentiment started to smoke this market earlier this week and hasn't stopped. We're now 6% off the S&P 500 1220 highs. Seem like enough? It just about better be for the bears, but more on that later.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Investing in Russia, Doug Casey on the Russian Bear BRIC / Stock-Markets / Russia
By: Casey_Research
(Interviewed by Louis James, Conversation with Casey)
L: Doug, I'm in Belarus this week, a pit stop to help some of my students with their various business ideas. I'm struggling with my Russian, but getting along. And that has me thinking about Russia's role on the global economic stage. I know this is something you've given some thought to... What do you think? Is Putin out to take over the world? What do investors need to keep in mind?
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Stock Markets Shudder On Club Med Debt Woes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
In a scary day’s trading with liquidity basically gone from Eurozone bond markets, equity markets finally woke up and took note and more than $1.1 trillion was wiped from the value of global stocks. Growing expectations that the €110 billion rescue package for Greece will need to be extended to Spain and Portugal was the cause. This was despite positive US home sales and factory orders data.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Bull Market or Bubble? How to Spot the Difference / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Paul_Mladjenovic
To build wealth (or to avoid losing it), it is obviously important to discern where to put your money and where NOT to put it. That discernment is greatly tied to understanding which securities or assets will have are experiencing bullish or bearish conditions. In recent years many investors were fooled into thinking that a particular asset class was in a bull market when in actuality it was a in a “bubble”, which is the precursor to a bearish decline.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Stock Market Wednesday Worries, Greece Closed and Japan On the Edge of Collapse / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Lord Blankfein, the peasants are revolting! Lloyd: "I know, they stink on ice."
Greek air-traffic controllers and teachers walked off their jobs and shopkeepers shuttered their stores to challenge Prime Minister George Papandreou’s latest decision to cut wages and pensions and raise taxes in return for a 110 billion-euro ($143 billion) rescue package. Protesters trying to gain access to the parliament building clashed with helmeted and padded riot police and threw sticks and stones and chanted slogans when they were repulsed. Police, who said 18,000 people are participating in the marches, shot tear gas at other protesters who lobbed rocks and set trashcans on fire at the central bank building near the parliament.
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