Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Sunday, April 04, 2010
Economic Recovery Follows Stealth Stocks Bull Market, BlogosFear Cry's Manipulated Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The economic recovery continues to manifest itself in the real world as this week both UK GDP was revised higher to 0.4% for Q4 2009 and Fridays U.S. Jobs reported 162k of new Jobs added to the economy, the economic recovery has long since been led by the stocks stealth bull market that has risen by more than 70% since the March 2009 low.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
Financial Manipulation on Wall Street: An Economy run on Smoke and Mirrors / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
We have an economy run on smoke and mirrors, based on the manipulation of markets. That was accomplished via the executive order signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 in the aftermath of the stock market collapse of October 19, 1987, known as the “President’s Working Group on Financial markets.” This order intended to be implemented during emergencies has been used to manipulate markets worldwide 24/7.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
Stock Market Investor Sentiment, A Different Look / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
Very often when looking at sentiment indicators, many market practitioners view the data as an all or nothing phenomenon. Either we are all in or too extreme in our opinions, and it is in those extremes that market turning points occur. That is how it is suppose to work. But as we have found out in 2009 (like in 1995 and 2003), prices can continue meaningfully higher despite extreme readings in the indicators. It should be obvious that looking for extremes to call turning points in the markets doesn't work all the time.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
Indian Stock Market Outlook / Stock-Markets / India
Detailed Technical Analysis with Chart studies from IndianStockCharts.com
Last Week Nifty made a new high, but barely closed above previous weeks close. The bullishness continued throughout the week with just a couple sessions in red. All the indicators have been in Overbought territory for a while now. This has been the case for almost all of the world indices.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
Crude Oil, Gold, Bonds and S&P Update from Commitment of Traders Report: Oil is Bullish / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
S&P short interest have hardly changed giving us very little clues after last weeks record short covering by large funds and institutions. There have been no follow up to the short covering and hence leaves the downside exposed for the coming week. We expect the S&P to correct and continue to be bearish short term. While our bearish all last week has not born fruit, it has not harmed us either as S&P still is stitting at the juncture where it can correct strongly to levels closer to 1120.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
Stock Market Crash of 2014 / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
At market turning points, mood is often extreme. Take the pessimism at the start of Obama’s term in January, 2009. Who would have guessed that Barack Obama’s first year in office would be the best for stock market shareholders in 76 years.? What’s more, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, which gained 70% in the past 12 months, has a lot of room to run if history is a guide. Since the 1960’s, the average bull market has lasted about 1000 trading days and the current run up has exhausted less than 27% of that time. It will still be running up during the 2012 presidential election, reversing the appalling loss of 3.3 million jobs in 2009 and boosting the already strong odds that Obama will win a second term. ( See www.scribd.com/dbsanz for more on this.)
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Saturday, April 03, 2010
Stock Market Up Or Down Get Your Watch List Ready / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
The theme over the past week or so has been that of no follow through and no decisiveness.
Earlier in the week we said we'd rather get that 1180 level out of the way and here we are tagging 1180 into the holiday. So now the moment of truth. Do we stall here? Or is it away we go to the 1226 level on the S&P 500. We'll find out some time next week. The big matrix computers make that call.
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Friday, April 02, 2010
Global Equities Strength and Consolidation to Mid-year / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
KEY POINTS:
• Range-bound trading expected to June/July
• Buying pressure and fair valuations for world index into mid-year
• Nikkei moves up with global markets. Economic, social problems persist for Japan
• Euro zone underperforms in sea of debt
• Australia points to higher world rates
Friday, April 02, 2010
Stock Market Weak Mid Day...Strong Late Day Action........ / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
This bull market is really something to behold. It is doing mind boggling things we just don't see very often. Not even in some of your best bull markets. It is staying overbought on the daily charts longer than I can believe. Add in the fact that there are now some small negative divergences on those daily charts and you have to wonder why it won't correct. The bull market is alive and well but we really need and should be getting some form of a pullback based on the look and nature of those daily charts across all the major indexes.
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Friday, April 02, 2010
The U.S. Jobs Report, Stock Market Rally or Finale? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
BullBear Trading Service members have been following my charts and posts as we approached the US Non-Farm Payrolls report to be issued on Friday morning. It seems as though the entire future of the market is pending on this single news item. This is, of course, known to be an economic release which tends to move the markets. Or does it?
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Investors Winning The Banking Cartel’s Musical Chairs Game / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
“A major crisis is building in the derivatives market yet a cabal on Wall Street is blocking the formation of a clearing house that could stop the next financial meltdown, a senior official with the Kauffman Foundation said on Tuesday…
The need for disclosure in the swap markets is enormous, yet the will to act is missing because of a small cadre of special interests, said Harold Bradley, who oversees almost $2 billion in assets as chief investment officer at Kauffman…
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
The Long Wave (aka The K Wave) “Jubilee” Cycle / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
A Special Update for Market Oracle Readers
Announcing the Updated and Expanded edition of The K Wave (1995) as Jubilee on Wall Street (2009)
The long wave debate rages on. Meanwhile, the global debt berg, the chief product of crony state capitalism, has begun to block the profligate paths of listing ships of state. The confident captains of crony state capitalism are at the helm, sailing into the foggy financial abyss of cascading sovereign debt defaults. The growing black hole of sovereign debt threatens to pull the global economy into its collapsing vortex, the quintessential black swan event. Coming out the other side of the black hole of collapsing debt beyond 2012, we suspect the world will be a very different place. A new golden age will dawn.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Indonesian Stock Market Continues to Soar to New All Time Highs / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
While many emerging markets have stalled out in 2010 digesting huge 2009 gains, Indonesia continues to ramp in quite methodical fashion. This despite a 87% gain last year. Certainly this has been a missed opportunity as we should have pounced last May... or July... or September... or November [May 22, 2009: Indonesia: A Must Own Emerging Market] [Jul 9, 2009: Indonesia's Star Continues to Rise on Back of Yudhoyono's Re-election] I'll admit, both times the Market Vectors Indonesia ETF (IDX) broke serious support (Nov 09, Feb 10) I hesitated as I was worried about a much larger selloff. Instead, as in the US, the market just turned around and staged a V shaped turn.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Feds Scrutinizing Derivatives in ETFs / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
Last week I told you about political risk in exchange traded funds (ETFs). Almost as if on cue, later that very day, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it is conducting a “review” of ETFs that use derivatives.
What? Derivatives in ETFs? Yes, and it’s nothing new. In fact, the SEC made clear it is also looking into mutual funds for the same thing!
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Stocks Are Still Down from 2008 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Yesterday we pointed out how Gold and the US’s attaining of debt saturation have rendered Bernanke and the world central bankers’ attempts to re-flate the US economy and markets meaningless. Indeed, with stocks down 80%+ (when denominated in non-paper currency) and ever new $1 in debt issuance now acting as a drag on US productivity (incomes have dropped to the point that we can no longer finance our debt) any talk of recovery or bull markets is myopic at best.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Why You CANNOT Re-Flate an Economy or Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
I constantly receive emails asking me why I’m bearish with stocks breaking to new highs. The simple answer to this question is that I’m not bearish, I’m a realist. Stocks haven’t made a cent of money in over ten years.
I know what you’re thinking, “Graham’s just pointing out that the S&P 500 is still down from its 1999 levels.”
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Stock Market Finally Some Selling That Sticks........ / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Not a whole lot. Nothing to get excited about by any means. In fact, it looked like the early morning selling would be wasted once again. We gapped down on a poor ADP Report (ADP National Employment Report), which is a prelude to the big Friday Job’s Report. It gives us all a sliver of insight as to what we can expect when the big number gets released on early Friday morning. The market was expecting a move higher in the jobs number but instead we got a loss of 20,000 jobs. The market surely didn't love the number but it didn't exactly fall apart.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Stock Market Melting Up, A Different Take / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Over at the ZeroHedge website, they have a post attributed to Michael Panzer of the Financial Armageddon website entitled: "The Latest Red Flag - The Market's Rate of Melting Up". Here is a different take.
From the Panzer article, I quote: "Based on data going back 90 years, whenever the 12-month rate of change (ROC) in the Dow Jones Industrials Average has exceeded 40 percent, it has generally signaled trouble ahead."
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Americans Still Not Working / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
For the most part markets were little changed overnight with investors largely sitting tight ahead of Friday’s all-important US non-farm payrolls report. Indeed the S&P 500 closed exactly unchanged, with some strength in the industrials offset by some weakness in the financials. Stock wise 3M rallied 3.6% as Morgan Stanley said profit may top estimates after Danaher boosted its earnings forecast. Home Depot and Lowe’s climbed as the S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 US cities and the Conference Board’s confidence gauge topped economists’ estimates.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Stock Market Trend Lateral Into Jobs Report / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
The market that just won't fall didn't again today even though it should. Should is a tough word in this bull market because what it should be doing and what it is actually doing are quite different. It should be pulling back to unwind some negative divergences on the daily chart and because the oscillators from MACD to RSI to stochastics all need to rest. It's not happening. The market is holding up now, in all likelihood, due to end of quarter buying and because few shorts want to step in front on Friday's jobs report.
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