Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
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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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
The S&P 500 went south and we cashed in our chips / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: INO
For some time now we have been concerned about the lack of upside momentum and the divergences that have been building in many key oscillators. We were also concerned that we'd reached a very important Fibonacci level which we pointed out in a recent video.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
We Pulled the Dow Sell Trigger, Stock Market Downside Targets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: INO
We pulled the trigger on the Dow
We have been concerned for some time that the market was in a rotational phase and that some key levels were being tested on the upside. The action today, Tuesday, can only be viewed one way, and that is negative. We do not expect this market to make a miraculous recovery to new highs and would not be surprised if we have seen the highs for the year.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
How to Protect Your Wealth from the Greek Debt Crisis Calamity / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Claus_Vogt
The Greek government is bankrupt. Simply put: It has systematically spent much more than it could afford. Now the inevitable day of reckoning has arrived.
A 110-billion euro bailout package by other European governments and the IMF has been announced. But can this political rescue solve Greece’s underlying problems?
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Stock Market Huge Turnaround Tuesday / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a significant turnaround Tuesday down session and plunged from the get-go with a big gap to the downside. A strong downside move early in the morning plunged the indices down to 1960 on the Nasdaq 100 and 1171 on the S&P 500 before bouncing, but then they made lower lows.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Brazilian Bovespa and EWZ Stock Market Analysis / Stock-Markets / Brazil
By: Guy_Lerner
On February 4th, I wrote that the Brazilian Bovespa was "dead money", and nothing since that time has changed my mind as Brazil, as measured by the i-Shares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (symbol: EWZ), has lagged the S&P500.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Traditional Stocks Bull Market Affects / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Donald_W_Dony
The traditional affects of an expanding economy and a bull market have finally reached the yield curve. After nine months of positive GDP growth in the US economy and over 12 months of steady advances in the S&P 500, the yield curve is beginning to flatten. This action normally starts within the first 12 to 18 months of a bull market and its presence now is right on schedule.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
China Shanghai Composite Index Stock Market Technical Take / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Guy_Lerner
Since the start of the year, the Shanghai Composite Index is down about 12%. But this composite peaked back in August, 2009, and it is down about 17% from those highs. We can debate the reasons why the Chinese market is down, but there is no doubt that US equity bulls should be concerned that the Chinese market has been diverging from the US indices.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Your Best Chance to Make 10 Times Your Money in the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks
By: DailyWealth
"We've suddenly got some activity..."
My father lives in a wealthy suburb of New York, where many Wall Street bankers live. He's been trying to sell his house for nearly three years...
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
China's Stock Market and Economy May Crash Within 12 Months / Stock-Markets / China Economy
By: Submissions
Marc Faber talks with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin about the outlook for China's economy. Faber, speaking from Hong Kong, also discusses Greece's debt crisis and the euro, the commodities market, and the implications of political unrest in Thailand for the nation's economy and stock market.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Stock Market Classic Handle Action Yet Again... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
Just when you think all is doomed the market surprises yet again. After watching what happened to the market on Friday I'm sure most of you were thinking that today would be a follow-through disaster. That the market had finally, since its best days, and now it was down-hill time for the averages. Not to be, though, was it! Once again a handle doing what it does oh so incredibly well. It fools the masses and plays games with your emotions. Exactly what the market big boys and girls want.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
The Great Reflation, The Mother of all Financial Experiments / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: John_Mauldin
Let me start this week's Outside the Box by venting a little anger. It now looks like almost 30% of the Greek financing will come from the IMF, rather than just a small portion. And since 40% of the IMF is funded by US taxpayers, and that debt will be JUNIOR to current bond holders (if the rumors are true) I can't tell you how outraged that makes me.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Even Rangebound Stock Index Trading Provides Great Trades / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: David_Grandey
Range-bound trade is still the order of the day.
We’ll want to see how the market and leading stocks respond should they hit support at the blue lines.
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Why Stock Market Correction Is Looking More Likely / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The bond market looks like it's made a huge base and is about to break out. The charts on basic materials, China and the retail sector look vulnerable, too, suggesting the consumer may need a rest. All of this could be signaling a disappointment out of Friday's jobs report for April and a possible correction in equities.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Monday Munificence, Greece “Fixed” for Only $146Bn, Who’s Next? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Yay, Greece is fixed…. again.
Now we only have to worry about Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal and, of course, the UK - who all have WORSE Sovereign Debt to GDP ratios than Spain (who are up next on the "wall of worry" the markets are climbing) while we pretend that the US is in "good" shape because we "only" have $15Tn in debt on a $14Tn economy, which is how we, through the IMF, were able to write Greece a $20Bn check this weekend.
Monday, May 03, 2010
All Eyes Remain on Greece / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Paul_J_Nolte
Over the past sixteen weeks the markets have managed only a few declines, pressing ever higher, skirting sovereign risk (Greece, Spain, Portugal – anyone else?), avoiding legal action against Goldman Sachs (adding criminal charges to the civil) and still modest economic growth, although better than expected earnings. The Fed, by keeping interest rates pegged at near zero has allowed the party to continue. Like the Staples commercial – that was easy! However the volatility that accompanied the decline late last week now have investors concerned that just maybe this is the beginning of the long awaited correction that will (finally) take stocks down more than just the few percentage points experienced so far this year.
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Shades Of A Stock Market Mania / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Captain_Hook
In the pushing it to the limit department, as some of you may know, I am caring for an aging parent right now (and experiencing rapid mental decay), and yesterday was one of those days that commanded all my time until the wee hours of the morning here. Thusly, this will be short, but sweet. And this is quite possibly the sweetest shorting opportunity in stocks since the tops in either 2000 or 2007, as key measures are indicating we definitely have ‘shades of a stock market mania’ that in fact go beyond the two tops witnessed last decade. Let me explain as succinctly as possible in an attempt to get this out to you before trade begins in North America this morning.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Stock Market In A Dangerous Place To Be? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Marty_Chenard
Today's chart is seen everyday by our paid subscribers (It is found in Section 4, Chart #3.)
A key aspect for this chart is whether or not it is above or below its support lines.
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Debt Crisis and Stock Market Trend, Is it 1998 All Over Again? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Clif_Droke
That's the question we're asking in tonight's report in light of developments in the euro-zone and, to a lesser extent, within the investment banking sector. Thursday's headline in the Wall Street Journal proclaimed, "Debt crisis hits Spain." The implication is that the recent downgrade of the sovereign debt ratings for Greece and Portugal have now spread even further into Europe and could continue to spread into a general euro-zone wide debt crisis. Read full article... Read full article...