Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Stock Market Heading for Black Monday Crash? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Clive_Maund
On Friday Goldman Sachs and J P Morgan broke down decisively from their Head-and-Shoulders tops, a development that we predicted before the open based in large part on the huge downside volume in these stocks on Thursday. The Put options that we bought in the early trade in GS and JPM soared, some contracts rising by about 50% by the close. This bearish development caused shockwaves to spread through the market which accelerated to the downside late in the day. After 2 days of heavy losses the Precious Metals stocks indices stopped for a breather just above their 200-day moving averages, and closed virtually unchanged on the day.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Stock Market Plunge Wipes Out December and January Gains! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Piazzi
S&P shed 44 points last week, and established a mid-term downtrend.
This is what I wrote regarding the weekly frame in Thursday’s post
There are signs of a correction on the chart, broken uptrend line, rapidly falling RSI, a cross on MACD
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Stock Market Correction, Watch for Bearish Downtrend / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Peter_Navarro
In my previous weekly newsletter, I urged extreme caution in the market until the question of whether the market was at the beginning of a correction had been resolved. This last week, with the American stock market taking its worst set of consecutive losses since bouncing off the March lows, we got our answer. The market is definitely in a correction.
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
China Stocks Continue to Lead Financial Markets and Gold Lower / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Douglas_V._Gnazzo
Last week's report started with China's announcement to raise reserve requirements for bank deposits. The news sent markets into a tailspin. China continued this week to lead world markets down.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Stock Market Buy Signal Suggests Early Week Upside Reversal / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Angelo_Campione
The system for the SPY is on a Buy signal 75% Long
Well, what a week! Tuesday started with a rally that took us to the highest close in 16 months and then we finished the week with a loss of over 5%!
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Obama Hits the Banks that Hit Stocks and Commodities, UK Inflation Soars / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The big news story of the week was Obama being shocked into action on the Banks AFTER the bruising election result from Massachusetts, which followed a year of dithering on the financial sector reforms issue. Obama has been a huge disappointment during his first year as the U.S. electorate had CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE rammed down their throats during the campaign, however we have seen very little actual change where even his flag ship health reforms have now basically been put onto the back burner. Perhaps Obama has now CHANGED and he will actually do something that he has long promised to do i.e. to hold the banks to account and real reforms to prevent them from bankrupting the United States. Obama's announcement immediately triggered sharp falls on the stock market which had been ripe for a correction for several weeks, just waiting for the trigger to begin correcting.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Stock Market Investors Remain Poorly Positioned to Weather a Sell Off / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Guy_Lerner
After notching a high earlier in the week for this rally that started in March, 2009, the S&P500 went on to lose over 5% in 3 trading days. This puts the S&P500 below the November 13, 2009 closing high. In the short term, "everyone" expects the proverbial bounce giving pause to bulls and bears alike, but make no mistake about it, investors remain poorly positioned to weather a sell off.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Protect Your Portfolio From Global Emergencies in Energy, Water, Food, Climate and Debt / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Sean_Brodrick
The global economy is an amazing study in contradictions. China and India both seem to be booming again, while our economy and nation has some serious problems.
America’s problems include a huge and growing national debt, stubbornly high unemployment, a Congress that is for sale to the highest bidder and more. These problems should continue to weigh on America’s economic recovery, and should steepen any real market correction.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Lessons from the Stock Market Panic of 1907 / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Clif_Droke
In their timely look at the panic of 1907, Robert Bruner and Sean Carr focus attention on what they believe to be the underlying causes of the ’07 stock market crash and recession, drawing parallels between it and the credit crisis of more recent times. Their book, “The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm,” is now available in soft cover published by John Wiley & Sons (2007).Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Stock Market S&P500 Trend Update and Forecast 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: INO
Hello this is Adam Hewison and I’ve just returned from my daughter's wedding in New Zealand to see that we have some very interesting markets to start the New Year.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Stock Market Warning, Sell or Hedge / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Martin_D_Weiss
From its intraday high to this morning’s low, the Dow has lost over 430 points just in the last three trading days … breaking through critical support … raising the specter of AT LEAST a big correction, and … foreshadowing a possible return of the debt crisis this year.
Ergo, this is a flash update to help you start thinking about — and preparing for — a market turn in the making, which could be a MAJOR one.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Obama Banking Reforms Maybe Too Little Too Late, Stock Market Nosedives / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
It may be the right direction, but not nearly enough...
President Barack Obama’s proposal to impose limits on may win him support on Main Street and shake up Wall Stcommercial banksreet without doing much to make the financial system safer overall. The plan, which is still lacking in details and must be approved by Congress, aims to make the banks more secure by forcing them to minimize the trading they do on their own account and give up their stakes in hedge funds and private equity firms. “It’s the right direction,” said Henry Kaufman, president of Henry Kaufman & Co. in New York and a former vice chairman of Salomon Inc.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Stock Market Sentiment Selling Under Way...50 Day Ema's All Gone / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
We started the day with a move lower once again. Markets across the oceans were lower and thus so were ours. You could feel the fear of buying after the selling over the past few days. During the week nearly all of the major Indices we track broke through not only our Rising Support Lines off the March Lows but also our 50-EMA support levels. Bigger picture if you study our first chart today of the S&P 500 monthly. The market stalled out at our highlighted backtest of our 2008 breakdown area at our 1150 Resistance Zone which is clearly seen in our first chart.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Interepreting a Crazy Week for Stock Market Index Traders / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It’s been a crazy week for stock and futures traders as the market moved up and down like a yo-yo, finally closing down sharply on the week.
Earlier this week I posted a report showing the Volatility Index (VIX) and how it was then trading at an extreme low level which triggered the sharp market corrections. Since that post the VIX has now risen over 30% as traders start selling positions to lock in gains.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Ganging Up on the Stock Market! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Sy_Harding
I wrote in last week’s column that “the next few weeks could be a testing time for both bulls and bears”.
To my way of thinking too many influential participants decided to take part in that testing this week for comfort.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Impending Gold and Stock Market Moves and Banking Cartel Interventions / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“What would happen if a country tried to leave (the European) Monetary Union…
Half a century of ever-closer union has created a ‘new legal order’ that transcends a ‘largely obsolete concept of sovereignty’ and imposes a ‘permanent limitation’ on the states' rights…
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Doug Casey Says Bet Against Wall Street, Bonds, and after a few months the U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Casey_Research
L: Doug, I saw a Wall Street Journal headline a few days ago that boldly proclaimed, "Car Makers May Hire Soon." Be still, my trembling heart! It’s hard to believe the WSJ would stoop to such a meaningless headline, but I guess they are just trying to give their desperate customers what they want: some hope, whether valid or not. What do you make of the unemployment situation?
Friday, January 22, 2010
Marc Faber Gold, Stocks and Oil Outlook for 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: LewRockwell
Here is the summary and my thoughts on a trio of Dr. Marc Faber's latest interview where he discussed his 2010 outlook on China bubble, sovereign default risk, stocks and commodities.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
BubbleOmics, The Ancient Art of Spotting Financial and Commodity Market Bubbles Before They Pop / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
By: Andrew_Butter
George Soros has been playing with bubbles since when I was a baby. The Great Sage once said that “recognizing a bubble is not hard, but figuring out when it will pop is guesswork”.
According to his son he was being economical with the truth. Apparently how his dad tells a “pop” is coming is that his back starts to hurt like crazy, so then he goes out and does things like break the Bank of England.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Stock Market Support Test Fails, More Selling to Come / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jay_DeVincentis
Test Failed
With support failing, our call for a low later this month could come in.