Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Stock and Financial Markets Walking a Dangerous Inflation/ Deflation Tightrope / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Timing, Perspective... When it comes to engaging financial markets, timing is everything. When and where does one enter or exit, what are his or her objectives, and what frame of reference does one use to make such decisions. Answers to the above are essential prior to committing speculative funds against any given timeframe or set of objectives one may consider.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Grab Your Shorts, the Stock Market Correction Has Begun / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
As I’ve noted in previous essays, this stock market rally has come much too far, much too fast. All told the S&P 500 is up over 48% since the March lows. This is unprecedented in the post-WWII era.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Stock Market Indices Snapback, though Resistance Repels Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The markets snapped back today and failed to follow-through to the downside, but at the end of the day, despite the rally, the indices did nothing more than retest the resistance zones and breakdown points.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
How to Profit as Consumers Tighten Their Purse Strings / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010
If you're expecting a brief round of belt-tightening before things return to normal, you'll be disappointed. It's time to get defensive, says David Stevenson.
A seismic shift is starting, both in Britain and America, in the way that people spend – or save – their cash. And it could flag the biggest change in consumer behaviour for 50 years.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Is the Great Stocks Bear Market Over? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Is this the end of the great bear market rally?
Markets across the world took a tumble yesterday, with the FTSE 100 ending down 1.5% at 4,645, and the Dow Jones off by nearly 200 points. So why the big slide? As with most such market moves, there were plenty of stories you could pin the fall on after the fact.
Japan exited recession, but the second quarter GDP figures weren’t as good as hoped. Economic data in the States disappointed on Friday. The Chinese stock market is slipping back into bear market territory. Take your pick.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Madmen and Government Regulations / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
Jeffrey Tucker writes: The AMC's Madmen, themed around New York advertising executives in the 1960s, captivates viewers for its plots, fashions, shocking levels of political incorrectness, and, most of all, because of the way its draws viewers so closely into a world of the early 1960s that they never knew.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Financial Crisis Worst is Not Over Warns Robert Prechter / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Stock Market Leadership Ratio Chart, Part1 / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
On our daily Leadership Ratio chart, we measure the strength of the Leadership stocks and compare them to the strength of the Broad Market stocks. We then divide the two numbers and create a Ratio that shows if the Leaders are moving forward or retreating relative to the Broad Market stocks.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Nasdaq Triggers Major Trade Signal / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
They Say That Timing In Life Is Everything
Well here I am at my vacation home in Maine watching the markets go crazy. Yes, we are so lucky to have access to the Internet and to the markets themselves no matter where we are in the world.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
How to Profit From China's High Speed Rail Infrastructure Projects / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
Jason Simpkins writes: Understanding that high-speed rail (HSR) could provide millions of Americans with a cleaner, more efficient way to travel, President Barack Obama allocated $13 billion to its development over the next five years as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) passed in February.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Canadian Dollar Rattled by Shanghai Stock Meltdown / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market
Bullish investors betting on a V-shaped recovery for the global stock markets are convinced the worst of the global economic crisis is over, and furthermore, expect the emerging economic giants, - Brazil, China, India, Russia, and Korea, (BRICK) to become the locomotives of global growth. With China and India leading the way, the notion of decoupling, - emerging markets advancing faster than developed markets, - and even pulling the G-7 economies out of recession, is making a comeback.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Stock Bull Market Delusions In Recovery / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The last major stock market ‘recovery’ in the U.S. started after the October 9, 2002 ‘bottom’ and lasted 5-years and 2-days. Total gain: 103%. Unfortunately, by November 21, 2008 all of these ‘gains’ had been lost, thus rendering the 2002 ‘bottom’ open to interpretation.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
The Three Bears Who Forecast the Goldilocks Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Charles Nenner, former Goldman Sachs market timing analyst, uses cycles, technical analysis, and a macro approach to time myriad markets. He called for a 2007 market top at around Dow 14,300. In 2008, he warned of a 30%+ decline in equities and in February of this year, he called for a large rally to take us to S&P 1000.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Could The Deflation Arguement Start Up Again / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Stock Market Counter Trend Rally Coming to an End / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles have taken over and if they make their lows when expected, the bear market which started in October 2007 should continue until 2012-2014. This would imply that much lower prices lie ahead. This will not be a straight-down decline, but a series of intermediate-term rallies and declines until we have reached the low point.
SPX: Intermediate trend - The counter-trend rally which started in March is now coming to an end. The objective for a high is being reached and deceleration is becoming apparent. If the top has not already been reached, it should be, shortly!
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Stock Market Rally Celebrations Come to an Abrupt Halt / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
During the week marking the second anniversary of the start of the credit crunch, stocks, copper, nickel, zinc and sugar recorded fresh 2009 highs. But the celebrations came to an abrupt end as caution crept back into investors’ vocabulary on Friday when it dawned upon pundits that markets were running away from economic reality. On top of that, Chinese equities - a leading stock market on the way up - saw a reversal of fortune and declined to a five-week low.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Stock Market Uptrend, Watch for a Pullback / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Market Pulse - The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell in August to its lowest level since March, according to preliminary data. The index came in at 63.2, down 2.8 points from July and even more from the second half of last month. The decline from July was led by a sharp drop in assessments of current conditions, although assessments of expectations also fell. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Stock Market Dumb Money indicator Continues to Hit New Extremes / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The "Dumb Money" indicator continues to hit new extremes despite last week's slight down market. The Rydex market timers continue to be bullish and leveraged to the extreme. And to round out our sentiment analysis, selling by company insiders has hit extremes as well. It is the perfect trifecta. Whether the perfect trifecta becomes the perfect storm (again) for investors is yet to be determined.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Stock Market Bumping Into Resistance / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The market seems to be forming a tight sideways channel in which we are bumping up against resistance. If we are hitting up against resistance, where is support? In looking at the chart below, one could say that the support level is back around the 94 level (or even the 87 level). Where do I think the market is going?
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Key Asset Category Stock Trend Lines Regression Analysis / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Here are the simple moving average directions and linear regression slopes for 200-days and 100-days for representative funds or indexes for twenty-seven key asset categories that we follow closely.
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