Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Battle of the Tech Stock Giants, Apple vs RIMM / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: INO
It is the battle of the tech titans as both RIMM and APPL battle for the smartphone market share. Although Research In Motion is a well established tech giant as the creator of the BlackBerry, they may have hit a wall with Apple, Inc.'s launch of the phenomenally popular iPhone.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Stock Markets Snap Three Day Losing Streak / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
On a drab, lethargic day, financials Citigroup and JP Morgan led the Dow Jones to a modest 46 point gain. Chip stocks on the Nasdaq (notably Rambus, who had an anti trust suit against them dismissed by the FTC) and the broader S&P 500 faired better, posting 1% and 1.5% rises respectively. In other equity news Wal-Mart came in with numbers that were in line with expectations, while upper end chain store Nordstrom beat profit estimations after the closing bell. They also bullishly raised guidance for the year.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
This Leading Stock Market Indicator Holds the Key for Investors / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: DailyWealth
Tom Dyson writes: To predict the stock market, I watch lumber...
To store lumber, you need a large climate-controlled warehouse with a railroad spur. Even then, it could still spoil within six months, destroying your entire investment.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Stock Market Indices Rally Back to Resistance Before Giving Back a Chunk of Gains / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had a snapback session from a technically oversold condition, and rallied back to resistance but rolled over in the last hour and took back a chunk of the gains. However, they still ended positive on the session.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Economic Green Shoots Torpedoed by Chrysler Bankruptcy / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
More Americans than forecast filed unemployment-insurance claims last week because of the Chrysler LLC bankruptcy that is likely to reverberate through the economy for months.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
ETFs For Every Investor! / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Money_and_Markets
Ron Rowland writes: In last week’s Money and Markets column, I told you about the advantages exchange-traded funds have over mutual funds. Today we’ll go a little deeper and look at the many exciting ways you can execute your investment ideas with ETFs.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Withering Green Shoots of Recovery Send Stocks Reeling / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
The bulls immaculate recovery lost its virginity yesterday, as news of record home foreclosures and signs of belt tightening by the all-important US consumer, in the form of very disappointing weak retail sales, sent US stocks tumbling.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Technical Leading Stock Market Indicators That Professional Investors Look At / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Marty_Chenard
Professional investors have an advantage for a lot of reasons. One reason is because of the amounts and types of data they look at.
One thing that professional investors keep an eye on is the volume of Advancing and/or Declining shares every day.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Downward Pressure Building for S&P 500 Stock Market Index / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Donald_W_Dony
In the May newsletter, I indicated that major indexes were expected to retest their march lows by early July. Models were suggesting that the highest probability of renewed weakness could be expected in mid-May. Though the actual change in trend has not quite occurred, the bullish attitude and trading over the last 2-3 days for the benchmark S&P 500 has clearly shifted to a more bearish tone.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Pullback Within Incomplete Upleg for Financial XLF ETF / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let's have another look at the pattern that is unfolding in the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF), which is my proxy for determining whether or not to enter its inverse ultrashort counterpart, the UltraShort Financial ProShares (NYSE: SKF).
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Breaking News: Imminent Big Bank Failure on Overnight Bank Loan Failure / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Jim Willie of the Hat trick Newsletter has just sent an urgent message of a potential imminent big bank failure that would be expected to hit the financial markets hard - message as follows -
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Stock Market SP 500 Index Important Technical Trading Signals / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: INO
Time to Take Another Look at the SP 500. The SP 500 index is caught between two trend lines that are the dominant technical indicators right now for this market. If either gives way, it will point the direction of the next major swing.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
How to Make Money Shorting Japan’s Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Japanese Stock Market
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Tony Sagami writes: I spend so much time crowing about great investing opportunities in Asia that I’m worried you may think stock market profits are practically guaranteed.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Another Yo-Yo Day For Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
A lacklustre, see-saw day of modest gains for the blue chip Dow, while the Nasdaq felt some pain. A near term sell-off back to the mid-low 800s for the S&P 500 is still very much on my mind, but while this is very tradable, I do not think that it is the start of a big sell-off to fresh lows; that will come when the data turns and there are no signs of that yet. This, I feel, is about a month away.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Current Stock Market Rally Within Supercycle Stocks Bear Market Part 2 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Bob_Bronson
Continued from Part 1 - GDP Continues To Accelerate Its Decline
The Commerce Department recently revised gross domestic product (GDP) downward for the fourth quarter of 2008. It shows the nation’s output of goods and services declined at a 6.3% annual rate, adjusted for inflation, from the previous quarter. It is clear confirmation that the recession is accelerating. Real GDP declined at the sharpest rate since 1982, while nominal GDP (no inflation adjustment) declined at the sharpest rate since 1958. The biggest hit to GDP came from the 4.3% annualized drop in consumer spending, the largest component of GDP. Business and residential investment also had large declines, and the deepening global recession took a toll on U.S. exports.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Current Stock Market Rally Within Supercycle Stocks Bear Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Bob_Bronson
Confirming our long-standing forecasts:
• Notwithstanding normal fluctuations in economic data, the U.S.-led global recession continues to accelerate to the downside.
• GDP, corporate earnings, house prices, and auto sales are still dropping sharply.
• Efforts to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency have begun.
• Bob Bronson wins a 10-year bet on calling the Supercycle Stock Bear Market
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Money Markets Mayhem Continues! / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: Although Wall Street has been partying like it’s 1999 or 2007 or some other happy time, I recently saw yet another stark reminder that our recent financial crisis did in fact just happen … and that the dangers were real and long-lasting and still far from over.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
More Stock Market Headwinds to Worry About / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Guy_Lerner
On the way into the office this morning, I was listening to CNBC radio on Sirius Satellite. In that 7 minute drive, I think I heard the word "inflation" about 15 times. With year over year CPI virtually at zero, I am not sure what the worry is all about. This is the reality. Inflation is low.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Cash Starved Companies Will Swamp the Bear Market Rally with New Shares / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: MoneyWeek
Everyone's getting very excited about all these 'green shoots' all of a sudden. George Soros reckons that the "economic freefall has stopped, the collapse of the financial system has been averted".
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Stock Markets Don't Like Mondays / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
So too far, too fast, was the verdict, or was it simply the proximity to key chart levels, like this year’s high at 944 on the S&P 500 that did the damage? Either way, the optimists will still see this as base building and the pessimists will view it as a sign of a stalling rally. A chunky give back day as investors frowned on the prospect of rights issues by four banks (Capital One, KeyCorp, US Bancorp & BB&T) to repay the TARP and worries that like Paulsen before Treasury Secretary Geithner his more a slave to Wall St than a servant of Main St America with news of a last minute shady deal to dilute the stress tests (reducing the amount of capital the banks have to raise) making then less credible.