Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Sunday, July 26, 2009
Don't Short a Dull Stock Market / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The good news is: All of the major indices closed at multi month highs last week.
Short Term - The market action that I interpreted as a blow off a week ago continued last week.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Investors are Not Buying the Stock Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The "Dumb Money" indicator is shown in figure 1. 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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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Recession Investing With Sector ETFs / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Ron Rowland writes: Right now the U.S. is in a deep recession. None of us know for sure when it will end, and the short-term indicators are inconclusive. Yet there is one thing I’ve learned from years of investing: The stock market is not just a big monolith. It’s a complex machine with lots of moving parts — and they don’t all move together.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Nasdaq Q's Poised to Thrust to New High Ground / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
Despite the acutely negative earnings reactions in some big-cap technology names Thursday evening, the PowerShares QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQQ) showed incredible resilience and relative strength throughout Friday¹s session.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Stock Market Massive Insider Selling, End of the Rally? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Execs at big banks aren’t worried about their paycheck.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second- largest U.S. bank by assets, will increase salaries for investment bankers, mirroring similar steps taken by rivals, a person familiar with the firm said.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Stock Market Experiences an Amazing Two Weeks! / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
Just two weeks ago, global stock markets, including the U.S. market, had been down four weeks in a row, seemingly ending their big rally off their March lows.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Hey Professor Roubini! The Street Says The Dow Is Going to 15,000! Are They Nuts? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
We didn't hear much talk about that "dead-cat-bounce-sucker-rally" recently, and all those guys with those pretty brightly-colored P/E ratio charts and pages and pages of verbiage predicting S&P 500 going to 450 seem to have disappeared along with the “Gold piercing $1,000 and on to the stratosphere” theorists. Perhaps they are on holiday?
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Friday, July 24, 2009
S&P Stock Index Building into a New Bull Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
The Technical Trader’s view:
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Yet More Corporate Earnings Bull / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Having spent the better part of two months humbled by resistance near 950, the S&P finally took the bull by the horns and went on a tear. The pressure had been building and the excuse was that 48 out of 59 major US companies reported earnings before the close ahead of expectations with Ford and 3M the star turns. But if you scratch below the surface things are not so rosy. Top-line revenues are not nearly as strong, earnings are still down nearly 25% on a year ago and Microsoft provided a soggy start to after-hours trading. Nonetheless, the top of the old range has finally been breached. Note the Nasdaq 12 day winning streak is its best run since 1992.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Low is Now Behind Us- Ignore the ‘Noise’ / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
The recent market action suggests that the bear-market low is now behind us.
Over the past few days, most of the stronger emerging markets broke out to new recovery highs. Furthermore, over the past couple of days, even the lagging stock markets in the West managed to climb to new recovery highs. It is noteworthy that yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average break through its overhead resistance and closed above the psychologically important 9,000 level.
Friday, July 24, 2009
IYJ Dow Jones IShares ETF Position Trading Update / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Will the Stock Market Retest the March Lows? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
This is a question that is not on anyones radar at this time, thats why it needs to be on yours. Because I believe we will test the lows and were going to do it soon. Why?
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wall Street's Love Affair with Ben Bernanke / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
A careful reading of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's op-ed in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, shows that Bernanke thinks the economy is in a deflationary spiral that will last for some time.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Dow Disappoints, Nasdaq Continues Winning Streak / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Underwhelming banking results from Morgan Stanley, Keycorp and Wells Fargo and a decline in energy prices dragged down a jaded looking Dow to a modest 0.39% decline on a listless days trading. But over at the Nasdaq they made it 11 up days in a row, as it continued to bask in the warm afterglow of Apple’s stellar results on strong IPhone and Mac sales. Starbucks surprised on the upside, sending the share price into orbit (up 18%, it’s biggest 1 day gain in 11 years). EBAY also impressed investors, while the less said about Qualcomm the better.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Vicious Stocks Stealth Bull Market Eats the Bears Alive!, What's Next? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
The price action following the SELL signals earlier this month can only be described as a VICIOUS BEAR TRAP !, We got sell signals, good ones for Stock BULLs such as myself (as of Mid March 2009) it was a clear sign to get ready to accumulate more, for bears it was a sign to double up for the long awaited bear market RETEST and maybe to make back some of the money lost shorting the rally ?
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Stock Market Investors Skating on Thin Ice / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
As 2009 moves past its midpoint, many market participants are briskly trying to forget the carnage of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009. But, before we get lost in the euphoria of the 36% Dow rally in the Spring/Summer of this year, a little hindsight is in order. In March, the Dow had plunged to 6,547, or some 53 percent down from its nominal 14,164 high in 2007. Despite the recent gains, we are still nearly 40% below the 2007 peak. This is a brutal truth that everyone seems to be ignoring.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Stock Market Sector Rotation Portfolio Strategies / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
Aligning your portfolio with the next industries to lead the economy and bear the market is basic to a sector rotation strategy. The current recession is causing some significant changes to the underlying economy that will affect investors. Surprisingly, companies that benefit from their export business are seeing their opportunities expand. There are some fundamental reasons for this change that will help them sustain their export growth. Exports will be the leading reasons for the growth the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for several years to come. Look to align your portfolio with the sectors that benefit from exports.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Stock Market Bulls Try To Take It Up A Notch / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The financial markets have done a good job of forecasting the slow improvements we have seen in the economic numbers in recent weeks. Even though the economy remains weak, we cannot ignore the steady stream of incremental improvements in the economic data. For example leading economic indicators (LEIs) have increased for three consecutive months. In the June report from the Conference Board , seven of the ten LEI components showed positive improvement.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
China One Market Investors Can't Ignore / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
Individual investors who still hold any doubts about Mainland China's future growth potential should take a long hard look at Airbus SAS, the Pan-European commercial airliner maker that is now building airplanes in that country.
When Airbus recently announced the delivery of its first China-built passenger jet, it was more than just the usual bit of corporate PR. It was an admission that any company that wants to remain a global leader in its industry will have to embrace China as a customer - and probably as a partner.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Stock Market Bulls Driving Prices Higher / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The week is beginning as it ended in equities, with stock prices moving higher and bulls seemingly buying every dip during the day. The short term picture thus remains bullish even if the S&P 500 has been moving higher without looking back from about 865 on 7/13 to almost 950 on 7/21.
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