Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, March 12, 2009
“Watch TV Make Money” Who is Really Making Money? Part II / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
Let me continue where I left off from Part I of this series. Kudlow has my book, as does Cramer and hundreds of other useless media clowns and shills. And they've had it for nearly two years, giving them more than ample time to realize what to expect. Yet, they continue to air clowns with terrible track records, whose sole purpose is to fool investors. And when they feel the need to admit problems, they air snake-oil salesmen who have been predicting doom for over a decade. In either case, they don't air credible experts with proven track records. Instead, they interview guys with agendas. Guys who will be preaching doom twenty years from now because that's their marketing pitch. The media also interviews guys in the “club” – guys like Peter Schiff who they know won't say something to draw attention to financial industry executives as the blame for this mess. These are the guys who agree to play by the media's rules in order to protect their agendas.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Stocks Bull Market of Bear Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: For many investors, the last 12 months have felt like a cross between Dante's “ Ninth Circle of Hell ” and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Even so, after Tuesday's market action - which saw the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rebound from a 12-year low to gain 6.4%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average jump 5.8% - many investors are no doubt wondering if it's time to pile in.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Stocks Hang Onto Gains / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
A little banker patter seems to go a long way these days. Yesterday, equities hung in the black thanks mainly to a bravado performance by Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan who talked up his book in a manner we usually associate with bouffant Bill Gross from Pim(p)co. But the vista of a dire retail sales number today is looming large as the US consumer retrenches further. This points to another downbeat quarter for earnings.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Investing Lessons from Warren Buffett's Latest Letter / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Nilus Mattive writes: “By yearend, investors of all stripes were bloodied and confused, much as if they were small birds that had strayed into a badminton game.”
That's how Warren Buffett describes the recent market carnage in his recent 2008 annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Another Win for the Stock Market Bulls / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The indices were up, down, up, and down again to close slightly higher on the session, a win for the bulls and not the reversal type day after yesterday's rally. So that's a positive.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Stock Markets Relief Rally or New Bull? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
I said the following in my “ Words from the Wise ” post on Sunday: “At this juncture, short-term movements are almost impossible to predict, although the sell-off over the past few days - a capitulation in some respects - could nourish the long-awaited tradeable rally. Also, Lowry 's 90% down-days , like we experienced on Monday and Thursday, are often followed by two- to seven-day bounces.”Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
CNBC Jim Cramer Repetitive Bear Market Bottom Wrong Calls / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
"He Has No Idea, NO IDEA, of how Bad his Market Calls are" - This article continues on from where the last one left off ( Why Watching CNBC Could Destroy Your Portfolio) in the deconstruction of CNBC talking bobble heads repeatedly bullish market calls whilst the stocks bear market continued to rage, that continued to destroy the value of CNBC viewers portfolios. This article focus's CNBC's chief stock picking guru, Jim Cramer's market calls against actual outcomes which will hopefully prevent the further destruction of portfolio values.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
All Bubbles and Manias Leave Something Undervalued / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Inquiring minds are taking a close look at point number five, A Revaluing of Intangible Assets in today's Five Things by Kevin Depew.
“It's kind of funny, but I feel much more satisfied with the things money can't buy, like the well-being of my family, I'm just not seeking happiness from material things any more”
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Stock Market Thanks Citigroup Pandit / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
King for a day, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, a man who had presided over shareholder destruction equal to the GDP of small nations had some soothing words for his long suffering shareholders yesterday, “In addition to our strong capital position, I am most encouraged with the strength of our business so far in 2009. In fact, we are profitable through the first two months of 2009.”Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Stock Market Huge Upside Explosion! Turnaround Tuesday INDEED! / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The markets had a huge upside explosion from the get-go, ran hard all day, pulled back late in the afternoon but held support, and then came on to close to at the highs for the day going away on a major turnaround Tuesday.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Stock Market Bulls Stick It To Over Extended Bears / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The big rally finally happened. Considering the extreme oversold readings on the indicators, a snapback rally was expected. All that was needed was a little bit of good news, which came by way of Citigroup 's announcement it has been profitable for the past two months. An announcement by Representative Barney Frank that the SEC would likely reinstate the uptick rule also helped move prices upward.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Stock Market Anticipated Bounce Has Begun / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Models have indicated, for several weeks, that an advance in the equity markets during March could be expected. The positive news from Fed chairman Mr. Bernanke and Citigroup today has provided the trigger for that bounce. Technically, this upward movement is considered to be a bear market rally and is part of the on going milder downward trend in 2009. As the next major low is expected in June, this bounce should fade by mid-to-late April or before.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Who Says “Buy and Hold” is Dead?: How to Double Up on Growth / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Yesterday, the Dow fell for the 14 th trading day out of the past 18. The sharp downturn only caps off an already disastrous market downturn.
As we've been expecting, many commentators say it's the nail in the coffin for “buy and hold” investing – a strategy which has worked for the past five decades.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Rally or Something More? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Pandit that Citigroup Has A Profit for the first two months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday, Citi Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said the first-quarter performance so far has been the bank's best since the third quarter of 2007 -- the last time it recorded net income for a full period. Based on historical revenue and expense rates, Citi's projected earnings before taxes and one-time charges would be about $8.3 billion for the full quarter.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Toxic Cocktails and Series of Stock Market Crashes Outlook 2009 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
I must apologize for the delay in getting this missive out, but I am just now emerging from the fetal crouch I have been in as I have watched the events of the last two weeks unfold. My plan was to cover the commodity markets this week, but instead I am going to go into a fundamental analysis because the marketplace tells me to do so.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Tech Stocks SMH ETF Expected to Soar / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
The enclosed chart shows the ratio of the Semiconductor HLDRs (AMEX: SMH) and the S&P 500 Depository Receipts (AMEX: SPY) for the past nine years. We noted this chart for our subscribers 10 days ago to illustrate how the SMH has begun to strengthen vis-a-vis the SPY in the last 3 months after falling substantially in relation to the SPY's price (from 68% to 18.4%) between 2000 and 2008. This indicates the beginning of a big resurgence of technology relative to the overall market, and that when the stock market actually reverses direction, technology should take a leadership role.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
America's Second Great Depression and Great Stocks Bear Market Have Arrived / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010
Emergency Briefing Transcript - America's Second Great Depression has arrived; and a great bear market is here. I prayed this day would never come as often as I predicted it. But now that it's here, I have a new prayer:Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Stock Market Freefall, No Bottom in the Dow / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Martin Weiss here with an urgent update before all hell breaks loose.
Washington is in disarray, its grandiose plans scrambled by events, its new legislation virtually dead on arrival.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Big Pharma Fails to Stimulate Downbeat Dow Stock / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
The Dow Jones is Bear-ing down on the 6,500 level, as a bout of merger mania (Merck's proposed $41.1 billion takeover of arch rival Schering-Plough) fails to bring out the buyers . Stocks ended a yo-yo session on the back foot. Weighing on the market were heavyweight comments from the former Sage of Omaha Warren Buffett that the current environment was akin to an “economic Pearl Harbor” while Dr Doom Prof Nouriel Roubini chimed in with his view that the US recession (depression) could last another three years.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Contracting Corporate Earnings Confirm Dow 5,000 Stocks Bear Market Target / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
This week's writer of the Outside the Box is no stranger to long time readers. Michael Lewitt writes the HCM Market Letter and is one of my favorite writers and truly deep thinkers. He has recently decided to turn his letter into a subscription based model and is meeting with some success, as he should. So, sadly, he will no longer be a regular feature of OTB, but he did allow me to use the current letter, as I think it is one of his more provocative letters.Read full article... Read full article...