Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Sunday, July 12, 2009
Weakening Stock Market Drives U.S. Dollar and Gold Trends / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
The recent roll over and weakness of the S&P 500 has caused traders to shift out of stocks and begin moving to the 'safe haven' of the US dollar. This action is providing the underpinning for support of the currency, which in turn, is forcing gold to fall. Throughout most of the March-to-June equity rally, money flowed out of the security of US T-Bills and into stocks. This caused the fundamentally weak dollar to drift lower which helped drive the price of gold upward. The precious metal climbed over $100 per ounce from April to June.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Stock Market, What's Next? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
After being bullish for 9 consecutive weeks and having seen the S&P500 fall some 5% over that time, the "dumb money" has finally given up hope. The "Dumb Money" indicator has moved from a bullish extreme to the neutral zone.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Correcting Stock Market Calls for Second Economic Stimulus / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
As I reluctantly start packing my bags after a most enjoyable two weeks of R&R in Europe (see my posts on Slovenia and Switzerland), “Words from the Wise” comes to you a bit more cryptically than usual. However, a full dose of excerpts from interesting news items and quotes from market commentators is included.
Despite having crisscrossed Heidi’s country, I have yet to find the elusive Swiss gnomes to glean what they make of financial markets at this juncture. Meanwhile, the past week has been characterized by a fresh wave of risk aversion, as uncertainty over the global economic outlook took its toll on stock markets, commodities and precious metals, and investors favored safe-haven assets such as government bonds and the Japanese yen.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Oversold Stock Market Due a Bounce / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The good news is: The market is overdue for a bounce.
Short Term - As of Thursday's close the Russell 2000 (R2K or !RUT) had been down for 5 consecutive days for the 1st time since before the early March lows.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Stock Market Draining Lower...Earnings On Deck... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
As the market opened for trading today, the world seemed to be watching whether today would be the day when the highly anticipated 875 Sp neck line would finally break down. We closed seven points above it yesterday and with the futures lower and hovering right near that grand number, anticipation seemed to fill the air. The bears were falling all over themselves thinking today would be it. We opened lower and tried to move higher but that didn't last as the bears came charging in, taking the SP 500 a few points below the magical level.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Stock Market Indices End Mixed to Close Out Week / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The stock market indices had a mixed performance at the close today, but not without some volatility, especially in the morning.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Rally, Examining the Facts / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
In the section of his annual letter to his stock-holders explaining why their stock plunged 32% last year, Warren Buffett said, “I did some dumb things in 2008. . . . . sucking my thumb when new facts came in that should have caused me to re-examine my thinking and promptly take action.”
Buffett doesn’t often get caught up in the problems that foil ordinary investors.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Financial Markets React to the Streamlining of America's Bankrupt Corporations / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
A leaner GM? - General Motors Corp., which is preparing to sell its best assets to a streamlined new entity, will carry with it liabilities of $48.4 billion, a bankruptcy judge said. Among the liabilities are more than $17 billion of debt to the U.S. and Canadian governments, a workers’ health trust and unspecified foreign lenders, GM said in a June 1 statement. The $48.4 billion also includes accounts payable, pension and other employee obligations and warranties.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Cautions for Investors and Traders Regarding Interventions / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
Continues from Part1 - Banking Cartels Engineered Financial Crisis Endgame
We issue a word of caution to our readers. So long as The Cartel is in a very active interventional mode (e.g. as in taking down the price of Gold and Silver) do not be lured into thinking that the periodic up spikes in the prices of Gold and Silver necessarily present a "breakout" or a buying opportunity. As a practical matter, technical breakouts are sometimes a lure designed to suck in more "longs" prior to a subsequent deeper Takedown.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Banking Cartels Engineered Financial Crisis Endgame / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
“…what is the reason for this “seemingly random monetary mess that multiplies its momentum every day? The answer, in one word, control. The elite/insiders already have control of the financial system, but they wanted more, much more…and it was not random, it was planned.” (emphasis added)
“How will all the above manifest itself in your life? The answer: “All you own will shrink...your income, assets, net worth, will shrink year after year in real terms inflation adjusted and possibly also nominally.” - HS Letter, April 27, 2008.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Top 10 Elliott Wave Theory Investing, Trading and Analysis Resources Special / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Stock Market Tight, Choppy Nominal Up-Session / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The indices had a very nominal gaining session today at the end of the day, because of a late sell-off.
The day started out with back and forth choppiness for most of the morning, but it looked like bullish-type consolidations as support held three times in the morning.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Pompous Financial Market Prognosticators Revisited / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
The experts go into denial as the credit crisis unfolds- In 2001, Colin Seymour published an article entitled 1927-1933 Chart of Pompous Prognosticators. In it, he documented the many Depression-era assurances given by politicians, economists, financial experts and the media to the public, protesting that everything was fine and there was nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, the stock market would decline by 92%, the US dollar would be devalued by 40%, real estate would drop 30% and unemployment would soar to 25%.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Closed End Funds, A Safer Way to Buy Stocks / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
The last few days have sent a lot of investors scurrying back to the sidelines.
The correction, which I’ve been calling the most widely anticipated correction in years, has reignited fears that even an anemic recovery might be farther away than most investors expect.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Stock Market Indices End Up After A Choppy Days Trading / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
It was one of those all sound and no picture days where stocks ended marginally positive for the day after a rally(ette) in the last half an hour. After the bell Alcoa marked the start of the pantomime that is the quarterly earnings season by reporting a smaller than expected loss i.e. the less bad is good club. Stepping away from the intra day noise and seeing the bigger picture the S&P 500 has lost over 5% over the past few sessions and is 75 points below its June 11th high.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Are Financial Markets being Manipulated by "Rogue Traders"? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
Danny Schechter writes: There’s New Evidence to Suggest that Crime In The Financial Markets is Rife.
New York, New York: Everyone has heard of the Wikipedia but not everyone knows about the Investopedia, a Forbes website, that monitors finance for market players. One of the issues it is concerned about is market manipulation, actions by rogue and not so rogue players who, working alone or together, unduly influence the way our supposed “free” markets function.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
S&P 500 Stock Market Trends Analysis for July 2009 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
When analyzing monthly stock market trends, I use the S&P 500 charts to identify important trend lines. Trend following is a proven strategy to beat the market and grow your stock portfolio. Technical analysis provides the tools to analyze and identify trends in the stock market. Since the S&P 500 chart is the one used by professional traders for their analysis, it is important to understand how it is performing.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
How's Your Investment Portfolio Doing? Seven Long-Term Indicators / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Before Wall Street and the media combined to make investors think of calendar quarters as "short-term" and single years as "long-term", market cycles were used as true tests of investment strategies over the long haul. Bor-ing.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The Stock Market and Economic Dead Cat Bounce / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
In economics, as in many other “soft sciences,” facts are often overshadowed by theories. The dominant economic theory currently in vogue is that the massive government stimuli orchestrated by the Bush and Obama administrations would produce an economic recovery by the end of this year.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Upside Ahead for SRS UltraShort Real Estate ETF / Stock-Markets / Housing Stocks
The ProShares UltraShort Real Estate ETF (NYSE: SRS) three-month pattern shows the price structure climbing into a key resistance plateau between 22.50 and 23.40, which if hurdled should trigger upside continuation towards 25.00 initially, and then to 29.00 possibly thereafter. My sense is that a powerful upmove in the SRS will reflect a renewed perception of deflation that is driven by the commercial real estate sector this time around. In any case, as long as 21.15 contains any significant pullback, I want to attempt to build a long position.
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