Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

What’s the Market Trend? Where’s the Price? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Richard_Shaw

It is important to have situational awareness in battle; and investing is certainly a battle these days.  From situational awareness, you can attempt adaptive response, which in battle and in this market may be a key to survival.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Four Stock Market Warnings to Watch / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Uncommon_Wisdom

Tony Sagami writes: The TV experts are breathless again thanks to some triple-digit Dow Jones moves. Like a bunch of thirsty frat boys on a Friday night, the Wall Street crowd is so eager to throw a party that they’ll latch on to any good news as the start of a new bull market.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Stocks Stealth Bull Market Quick Update / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Nadeem_Walayat

In response to a dozen email requests, this is a quick update to the ongoing Stocks Stealth Bull Market that began in early March 2009.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Stocks Consolidate But Watch Finanicals / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

A day of consolidation for stocks, while pending homes sales data, was a shade better than the lowly expectations (as record highs in affordability lured buyers) and the autos sales numbers were tad less awful than the markets were bracing for. The disappointment was again from the unwillingness of financials to partake in the up move after stock offerings to repay the TARP.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

How Stock and Currency Markets Behave After a Financial Crisis / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: John_Lee

Debt-based monetary systems are inherently unstable. Money is created out of thin air by the banks and lent to government, consumers and businesses. In order to service and replay those debts, the borrowers take on more debts. Asset prices are inflated, and the vicious cycle continues until the debtors are unable to borrow or the banks are unwilling to lend. At that point the system snaps, everything is sold off, and we have a financial crisis at hand. In this paper we examine what happens to equity and currency markets in the aftermath of financial crisis.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

CNBC Jim Cramer Calls Stocks Bear Market Bottom in Hindsight / Stock-Markets / Mainstream Media

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Jim Cramer of CNBC's "Mad Money" is apparently at it again, rewriting history as the video prepared by Don Harrold illustrates that Jim Cramer is now starting to perpetuate a myth that he called the Stock Market bottom at Dow 6,500 after the earlier myth of telling investors to sell at Dow 11,000.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

An Avalanche Of Cash Is Set To Slide Triggering a Flood of Liquidity / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble

By: Joseph_Dancy

Last month we read a book by Mark Buchanan entitled “Ubiquity—Why Catastrophes Happen.” It was mentioned by financial commentator James Grant in one of his investment reports. The book does not deal directly with financial markets—just physical systems—and attempts to identify the similarities present when unexpected events surprised observers, whether they were earthquakes, landslides, forest fires, tidal waves, political events, or financial events. In each case a small shock triggered an unexpectedly large response out of all proportion to what was expected.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Quarterly Stock Market Market Brief & Stock Pick  / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Christopher_Quigley

While from a classic Dow Theory position the markets are in a bear market rally, from a technical position the momentum indicators are very strong. Both the Dow Transports and the Dow Industrials, on a three day chart, have both indicated phased supportive movement with higher highs and higher lows. More significantly the increases are advancing from solid base positions which is granting the market solid technical structure, something it did not possess since the third quarter of 2008.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

False New Stocks Bull Market Signal From Coppock Curve Indicator? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Guy_Lerner

I am seeing several articles in the main stream press and blogosphere regarding the "bullish signal" given by a technical indicator known as the Coppock Guide or Coppock Curve. As we can see in figure 1, a monthly chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (symbol: $DJIA), the Coppock Guide has turned up from a very low level. Thus according to the above referenced sources, this indicates a new bull market.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Strengthening Chinese Economy And Commodities Cheer Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

So, the old cliché that “what is good for GM is good for the USA” is yesteryear’s story. Risk appetite is back. Impressive Chinese PMI data lit the initial spark and the Far Eastern induced rally didn’t stop until the closing bell rang in New York. Oil & tech stocks were in the vanguard of the surge higher with semi conductors up 5%.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Next Phase In The Financial and Economic Crisis / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009

By: Paul_Lamont

The recent stock market rise is lulling investors back to sleep.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Stock Market Rally Looking Tired, Some Technical Indicators Improving / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Richard_Shaw

The S&P 500 rally is beginning to look a bit tired.  The price action is more sideways than up and the volume is declining.  That may just be the pause that refreshes, or it may be the pause before a retracement.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Stock Market Traders Take Note: These 'Risky' Stocks Are Dominating / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: DailyWealth

Tom Dyson writes: There's a runaway freight train in the markets. This group of stocks has the strongest uptrend anywhere in the world... and it's still getting stronger.

If there's one group of stocks you need to own right now, it's this group. Let me show you why...

Monday, June 01, 2009

Stock Market Climning a Wall of Worry? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Paul_J_Nolte

In keeping with the theme from last week – how many straws will it take before the markets finally break? Or is the “wall of worry” that the market is climbing higher still? Adding to the continued housing woes and a confident (but not spending) consumer, we should see General Motors declare bankruptcy this week (which will force the Dow to change some members).

Monday, June 01, 2009

Stock Market Investing Profits Map For The Next 6 Months! / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Uncommon_Wisdom

Larry Edelson writes: Every so often it pays to take a few steps back … look at the charts from a longer-term point of view … and put the markets into perspective.

This is especially true today with so much confusion in the markets … so much misinformation in the news … so many threats to your wealth … and so much background noise and distractions.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Investing in Royalty Trusts: How Some Investors Are Getting Paid $3,600 an Hour / Stock-Markets / Investment Funds

By: Q1_Publishing

The two of us just sat there eating some leftovers from KD’s Bar BQ, drinking from sweaty bottles of water, watching it.

The numbers on the rusty old meter just kept rolling over. One…by one…by one.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Why May’s Stock Market and Commodities Gains Can Continue / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: John_Derrick

The book is closed on May, and what a great month it was for commodities, precious metals and emerging markets. And there are several good reasons to believe that the strong performance will continue in June and beyond.

The price of oil rose nearly 30 percent in May to close above $66 a barrel. This was oil’s biggest monthly gain since March 1999, when it climbed more than 36 percent. Natural gas picked up 14 percent, reversing its negative trend so far in 2009.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Stocks Bear Market Rally, Debt Is Your Worst Enemy / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Captain_Hook

Debt is your worst enemy right now – make no mistake about it. And the reasons for this understanding are plain for all to see, with the most profound being the next round of deleveraging might be just around the corner, meaning worsening asset price deflation would make it impossible for most to ever escape the debt death trap outside of a jubilee, which is the last thing our blood sucking financial institutions want. No, no, no. They are all for usury and kicking the little guy when he’s down however, with the most blatant example of this being credit card issuers (banks) jacking interest rates to exorbitant levels not just for those who miss a payment, but for everybody with an outstanding balance. What’s worse of course is this is being done in the face of a collapsing economy that greedy bankers are all too aware of, and despite evidence such policy could tip the economy over on its head.

Monday, June 01, 2009

GM RIP, NOT Too Big to Fail / Stock-Markets / US Auto's

By: PaddyPowerTrader

With the Irish Bank Holiday, it’s a quick one today. Today sees the once-great General Motors humbly applying for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It must have been a hard weekend as the clock ticked towards the June 1 government deadline to restructure. The company plan to name turnaround executive Al Koch to serve as its chief restructuring officer to help the company through bankruptcy protection. GM has already has received about £12.5 billion in government loans and could get nearly £19 billion more to make it through what is expected to be a 60 to 90-day reorganisation in bankruptcy court.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Stocks Bear Market Rally Consolidating Before the Rally Resumes / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Andre_Gratian

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.

SPX: Intermediate trend - Sideways! The counter-trend rally which started on March 6 is undergoing a consolidation which could last two or three more weeks, after which the bear market rally will continue.