Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Stock Market Investor Sentiment Improves as Investors Seek Riskier Assets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
“Goodbye safe havens, hello risky assets.” This was the refrain of investors’ theme song during the past week. Safe-haven assets were out of favor as better-than-feared corporate earnings and signs of a budding economic recovery emboldened investors’ appetite for reflation trades such as equities and commodities.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Stock Market Suckers Rally Built on Insider Trading / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Global_Research
Bob Chapman writes: Suckers rally in the markets, Dow will be driven down again, market gyrations motivated by insider greed, bank acquisitions point to a greater agenda, despite what economists and institutions are attempting, the economy will remain in a spiral In the first three weeks of April this year, insiders for NYSE listed companies sold 8.32 times more stock, by dollar value, than they purchased. What does that tell you? We won't insult your intelligence by answering. If ever there was an indicator to identify a sucker's rally, this would be it.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Stock Market Rally Whilst Impressive is Not Sustainable / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Mike_Burk
The good news is: • Friday, most of the major indices closed at their highest levels since the early March low.
Short Term - The chart below covers the past 3 months showing the NASDAQ composite (OTC) in blue and an indicator showing the percentage of the previous 4 trading days that were up in black. Dashed vertical lines have been drawn on the 1st trading of each month.
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Saturday, May 02, 2009
Stock Market VIX Volatility Still High / Stock-Markets / Volatility
By: Richard_Shaw
The VIX (a measure of options volatility, an indicator of stock market volatility risk, and reputedly a “fear gauge”) has come down so far from being historically high, that commentators now speak of it as low. The fact is that is it still high relative to the intermediate past.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Economic Recovery Plan Doomed to Fail as Optimists Fuel Bear Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Bryan Rich writes: It’s important to understand the global investment and economic environment to understand what’s going on with currencies. And right now, there’s limited visibility of what lies ahead for world economies …
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Stock Market Bulls Fail to Capitalize / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The most interesting technical “event” of Friday for me was watching the S&P 500 e-mini futures chart violate what I thought was key near-term support at 864.00-863.50 but fail to follow-through to the downside. The bears could press only to 862.50 before the selling dried up. That is one of those “uh oh” moments technically. Where were the sellers? When they did not appear, I braced myself for an upside explosion – to make the new shorts pay a price – but guess what? The bulls did not, or could not, generate the explosive upside that I would have expected on the first Friday of a new month.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Stock Market Late Snapback Closes Indices in the Plus Column / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices ended the week with another gain. The day started out with a move down that saw the indices slightly take out support, but no follow-through led to a strong 3-wave rally back that reached the session highs by mid-day. They pulled down steadily in the afternoon, tested initial support, but were not able to follow-through to the downside. A last half-hour snap back brought them back sharply, closing them in the plus column.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
New Stocks Bull Market or Just a Bear Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Stress tests? What stress tests? - The Federal Reserve is postponing the release of stress tests on the biggest U.S. banks while executives debate preliminary findings with examiners, according to government and industry officials.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Car Trouble for Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
A late pre-mayday slump yesterday saw the US market give back earlier healthy gains as traders worried over the governments heavy handed and ham fisted handling of the Chrysler saga and the shift back in focus to GM . Of course, recovery at all the auto companies depends on auto sales, and here the only green shoots for April were sprouting out of unsold vehicle parking lots, for total vehicle sales are projected down to 9.7m units from 9.9m in March.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Volatile Stock Market Session Ends Narrowly Mixed / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices certainly had some volatility on Thursday, up sharply in the morning and down sharply in the afternoon, taking back all of the gains and then some, closing mixed on the indices at the end of the day.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Strategies for IRA Investors / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Hans_Wagner
Investing in a bear market presents new challenges for conservative investors. No one wants to loose money. Fortunately, there are safe strategies for conservative investors to continue to invest their money. This conservative investment idea is designed to save your IRA from experiencing losses during a bear market. In addition, it helps to position you for the recovery in the stock market once it begins.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Who’s Right About The Tech Stock Sector? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Tony Sagami writes: Intel wants you to believe that its PC business bottomed out in the first quarter and is about to return to normal.
“We are seeing signs that a bottom in the PC market segment has been reached. I believe the worst is now behind us from an inventory correction and demand level adjustment perspective,” Chief Executive Paul Otellini said during a recent conference call.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Market Vectors Steel Index ETF Looking Higher / Stock-Markets / Steel Sector
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The Market Vectors Steel Index ETF (NYSE: SLX) may benefit as many of the steel names look interesting on the upside, and as the Chinese equity markets are starting to heat up as well, which may be an indication that the gargantuan global (Chinese) stimulus packages are kicking in.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stock Market S&P 500 Index Internals / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Richard_Shaw
The S&P 500 (proxies SPY and IVV) staged an impressive rally today in the face of the worst GDP drop in 50 years for the first quarter, and the possibility of the second quarter being adversely impacted by a flu pandemic (now level 4 of 5).
Thursday, April 30, 2009
China Auto Market Booms Whilst Rest of the World Stuck in Reverse / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: BEIJING, The People's Republic of China - At a time when the rest of the global auto sales are experiencing their biggest declines in decades - and are set to drop at least 8% globally - the burgeoning China auto market may grow by 10% or more this year.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stocks Rise on G20 and FASB Hopes, Can Pigs Really Fly? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
The Fed / Treasury first announced that banks would be subject to stress tests back on Feb. 10, 2009. This WSJ account is the earliest mention we’ve been able to find:
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Pearls Before Swine – Perils of Free Money / Stock-Markets / Global Pandemic
By: Axel_Merk
The swine flu could not have come at a worse time. Just when there were signs of a nascent recovery, confidence takes another hit. As a result, “reflation trades” may be put on ice if investors revert to “panic mode” again. While it is difficult to assess the full economic impact of the swine flu, we believe some of the dynamics are foreshadowed. This flu may reinforce long-term trends and provide an opportunity for investors to position themselves accordingly.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stocks Piggy Back Rally on the Fed FOMC Statement / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Despite a horrific headline GDP number yesterday, the market was encouraged by the entrails, which showed consumer expenditure up by more than expected and a massive drop in inventories (which of course is required to find a new equilibrium between supply and reduced demand). The Fed also chimed in with some cheer with a more upbeat tone in their FOMC statement, while Starbucks beat street estimates. I assume the mood for the day was that the Armageddon story is off.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stock Market Another Solid Up-Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had another solid up-session, although they came way off their highs in the last hour after the FOMC announcement's brief spike-up rally.
The day started out with a gap up. They motored strongly all morning, backed and filled mid-day but held support, and then came on after the FOMC meeting, spiked up to 1398 on the Nasdaq 100 and up to 882 on the S&P 500, right near our overhead resistance levels, and then came down in a sharp 5-wave decline in the last hour, bouncing in the last 5 minutes to take back some of the losses.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Weekly Wizards on the Stock and Commodity Markets Next Move / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Weekly_Wizards
Mike Paulenoff, on the Financial and Oil & Gas ETFs
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Now that the Financial Select SPDR (XLF) has been subjected to earnings, earnings doubts, stress tests, all sorts of suspicions about the efficacy of the tests, and now leads about which bank will or might not need more capital (according to the Fed), let's notice that for the past two weeks the price pattern has carved out a high level consolidation pattern.