Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Stocks Bear Market Rally, Examining the Facts / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Sy_Harding

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

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

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.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Cautions for Investors and Traders Regarding Interventions / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: DeepCaster_LLC

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

By: DeepCaster_LLC

“…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.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Top 10 Elliott Wave Theory Investing, Trading and Analysis Resources Special / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory

By: Newsletter

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Stock Market Tight, Choppy Nominal Up-Session / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Harry_Boxer

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.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Pompous Financial Market Prognosticators Revisited / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Nick_Barisheff

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%.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Closed End Funds, A Safer Way to Buy Stocks / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Q1_Publishing

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.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Stock Market Indices End Up After A Choppy Days Trading / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

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.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Are Financial Markets being Manipulated by "Rogue Traders"? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Global_Research

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.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

S&P 500 Stock Market Trends Analysis for July 2009 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Hans_Wagner

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.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

How's Your Investment Portfolio Doing? Seven Long-Term Indicators / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Steve_Selengut

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.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

The Stock Market and Economic Dead Cat Bounce / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: John_Browne

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.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Upside Ahead for SRS UltraShort Real Estate ETF / Stock-Markets / Housing Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

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.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Comparing Job Losses and Investment Opportunities in Post WWII Recessions / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Mike_Shedlock

Minyanville Professor Tony Dwyer posted an interesting chart yesterday about recessions and payrolls that is worth a look.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Stock Index Trading Midweek Update / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Angelo_Campione

Current Positioning:
SPY: Nil (Cash)
QQQQ: Nil (Cash)

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Five Ways to Profit From Global Warming / Stock-Markets / Climate Change

By: Money_Morning

Martin Hutchinson writes: The Waxman-Markey Bill, the much-ballyhooed clean energy legislation passed recently by the U.S. House of Representatives, is an economic and political mess.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

How Green Was My Stock Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

The second big selloff in three days signals the reflation trade is dead and volatility is back with a bang (the VIX was up 6.5% yesterday) as reality intruded on the over-hyped green shoots guff. The Nasdaq was the big loser for the day, falling 2.3%, but it remains the only major US index still in the black for the year. Commodities and crude continue to be unloved and now the markets are fretting that the economy may need a fresh stimulus package. Such talk is killing confidence. With the S&P 500 now trading below its 200 day moving average, stocks may well trade heavy with selling on upticks.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Stealth Stocks Bull Market Summer Correction Update / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The analysis of April 26th concluded that the Dow is targeting a high of 8,750 by mid May 2009 which was expected to be followed by a significant correction of 14% towards a Dow target of 7,500. The Dow hit the target on 2nd of June which was confirmed in the quick update at the time, and therefore expectations were for the significant correction to materialise.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Stock Market Price Charts Can be Confusing ... Can't They? / Stock-Markets / Technical Analysis

By: Marty_Chenard

Take the Relative Strength for example. It moves from zero to 100. The half way point has to be ascertained visually, because 50 is a critical level. So, you have to watch for 51 or 49 to know when you are above or below that critical mark.