Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Linking Valuation Standards, Basel II, Basil Fawlty, Moody’s, Hitler, & Goldman Sachs / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Andrew_Butter
Bill Gross had a go at the rating agencies this week, as always he has a lot of sensible things to say.
The point he didn’t make clearly (he did make it, but it was easy to get distracted by the discussion of working ladies of the night and six-inch heels…(where does he get his information?)), was that rating agencies have a monopoly franchise to “protect” the world financial system.
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Saturday, May 08, 2010
Indian Stock Market Detailed Technical Analysis with Chart studies / Stock-Markets / India
By: StocksBuddy
As we have been stating repeatedly in our previous analysis, this week we were expecting negative divergence to kick in, and it clearly did. Nifty failed every move to cross the middle line of the BB channel as can be seen from the chart below. Nifty just followed the wrath of global markets to the downside with no pause at all.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Stocks Tumble Again and U.S. Treasury Bonds Spike on Panic Buying / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 290,000 in April, the unemployment rate edged up to 9.9 percent, and the labor force increased sharply, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in manufacturing, professional and business services, health care, and leisure and hospitality. Federal government employment also rose, reflecting continued hiring of temporary workers for Census 2010.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Stock Market Crash What is Going On? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Robert_McHugh_PhD
Where do I even begin. Thursday, May 6th, saw the single largest daily decline in the history of the U.S. Stock Market. But, even more amazing is that most of it occurred in a matter of 10 minutes, between 2:40 and 2:50 pm EST. During that ten minute period, the Industrials fell approximately 600 points. It was a scary drop, an all-out panic attack, a stock market crash free-fall where bids were absent, and selling pressure was powerful. At the bottom, the Industrials had fallen 1,010 points Thursday. Then deep pockets intervention appeared and bought markets hard, stopping the dive, and driving prices higher.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Did the Stock Market Fall or Was it Pushed? WSJ Baffled by Market Drop / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Danny_Schechter
The Wall Street Journal headline on the day after we almost lost the market reported that the wise men on the Street were “baffled” by the big drop Thursday. The Financial Times called the event “Shambolic” as if only a shaman can decode it.
A week after CNBC assured its high net worth viewers that Greece would no longer be a problem, there was an uprising there followed by a volcanic market cliff dive that the White House, NASDQ and every regulator is now investigating.
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Saturday, May 08, 2010
Sovereign Debt Contagion Triggers Global Stock Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: David_Knox_Barker
A Modern Day Jubilee on Wall Street
“In the end, the only way out of all this global debt may prove to be a Biblical debt Jubilee.” - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Daily Telegraph
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Debt Crisis Hit Stock Market Turmoil Continues Benefiting Gold / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Andy_Sutton
The obvious pick for a topic this week would be yesterday’s fearful plunge in US Markets. However, absent a well-defined culprit for the plunge (so far), it seems pointless to speculate on what really happened. I am still sifting through my own observations of that ten-minute span as well as those sent to me by subscribers. There are reports of index ETFs with near zero volume and unfilled orders at the market.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Intermediate-term Weakness Ahead for Germany Index EWG ETF / Stock-Markets / European Stock Markets
By: Mike_Paulenoff
While everyone is fixed on Greece (for good reason), why don’t we look at the pattern developing in the German equity market, just to keep an eye on the country within the EU that is on the hook for the lion’s share of money to be loaned to the PIIGS. After all shouldn’t the health of the creditor nation’s equity index be telling?
Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Investors Keep a Close Eye on VIX Investor Fear / Stock-Markets / Volatility
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Historically, the “fear index,” or the VIX, had minimal impact on the price of precious metals. However, as investors forgo treasury bonds in search of even safer investments, the VIX is correlating very well with the price of precious metals.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
What Next? Financial Crises, Manipulated Markets and Investor Opportunity / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“If we do nothing, we’re headed for a real crisis.” Jack Bogle, Founder, Vanguard Funds
For several weeks we have been warning that an Equities Takedown was impending, culminating with last week’s Article entitled “Trap For Equities Bulls! Opportunity for Others”.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Robert Prechter, What Do These 8 Technical Indicators Mean for the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: EWI
Editor's Note: The following article is excerpted from Robert Prechter's April 2010 issue of the Elliott Wave Theorist. For a limited time, you can visit Elliott Wave International to download the full 10-page issue, free.
Friday, May 07, 2010
This Is For All You Stocks Bull Market Geniuses / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Guy_Lerner
Figure 1 is the "Dumb Money" indicator. This is the same indicator I show every weekend in our report on sentiment; the indicator will updated this weekend. The "Dumb Money" indicator looks for extremes in the data from 4 different groups of investors who historically have been wrong on the market: 1) Investor Intelligence; 2) Market Vane; 3) American Association of Individual Investors; and 4) the put call ratio.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
U.S. Market’s Stub Toes As Greece Debt Fear Spreads / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Brady_Willett
I’ll be the first to admit that I do not know how the Greece debt crisis/saga will end. What I do know is that when the rating agencies first warned on Greece’s debt back in December this should have been when policy makers urgently started to develop contingency options (assuming some were not already in place). And while delaying any bailout may well have been a ploy to squeeze as much cooperation from Greece as possible, it is clear with panic spreading from the debt markets to the equity (and countless other) markets that this tactic has been played in full. The 16 euro-zone leaders are meeting today to try and finalize Greece’s bailout and stop contagion.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Robert Prechter Stocks Bear Market Deadly Cycle Phase II Has Begun / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
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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Friday, May 07, 2010
Marc Faber, Stock Market Crash Due to Stocks Rallying Too Far, Hit by Europe's Debt Crisis / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Submissions
Marc Faber, on Thursdays selloff in U.S. stocks. U.S. stocks tumbled the most in a year on concern Europes debt crisis will halt the global recovery.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Crash Connected With Yen, Ponzi Markets and Program Trading / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are digging deeper into the mysteries of Thursday's stock market plunge starting with an intraday chart of the Yen.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Crash Around The World In 11 Minutes! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: David_Grandey
Why are we saying 11 minutes? See the waterfall from about 2290 on this index? It took 11 minutes to go from there all the way around the world and back again in 11 minutes.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Micro Intraday Crash Shows Us Where The Safe Havens Are / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
WOW…. Now that was an exciting day in the market!!
This day will be talked about for years to come and the individual who hit the wrong button (“B” for billion instead of “M” for million) to sell billions instead of millions will have a tough time finding another job… Maybe this person can do commercials for Microsoft Windows showing how one simple key stroke can crash a system… lol
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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