Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, February 19, 2009
Stocks Bull Market Killers / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Sean Brodrick writes: I'm very bullish on gold and silver. And at the same time, my target on the S&P 500 is 600 — a 24% drop from recent levels and 62% down from its October 2007 peak.
As far as the economy goes, I'm not looking for it to bottom before 2012 … if we're lucky. While the market could bottom before that, I'm not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Stock Market Crash Alert Flag is Flying / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Heads up: our Crash Alert flag is flying again. More about that in a minute.Our old friend and Editor in Chief of The Fleet Street Letter, Lord Rees-Mogg, writes in The Times:
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Bleak Outlook for Stock Market, Be Short or In Cash / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Yesterday's action in the stock market did not inspire much confidence. While the DJIA finished positive, buyers were not rushing into the market to buy stocks. Rather, it was a half-hearted attempt to keep the DJIA above the November low.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Stock Market Bounce Coming / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
No market goes straight up or straight down. Based on the charts below (courtesy Decisionpoint.com), it looks to this analyst that the Dow Jones Industrials Index (and $SPX) is due to bounce up from a double bottom at around 7500 and, if this happens, then the gold price may bounce down from a double top at around $1,000 an ounce.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Stock Market Bottoms, Why Buffett, Grantham, and China Are All Buying / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Looking back, the signs of a market tops and bottoms are so obvious. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that. When you're in the middle of it all though, it's not nearly as easy to see.
During the peak over the past couple of years a lot of records were made.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Stock Market Indices Close Flat in Potential Bear-Flag Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The market ended flat on the session despite the fact that they set new multi session pullback lows, but were unable to get anything more than early damage on the NDX and S&P 500.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Invest with China's version of Warren Buffet / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Tony Sagami writes: He's been called chiu yan (Superman) and the Warren Buffett of China. He earned that title as one of the most successful Chinese businessmen in the history of China. And according to Forbes magazine, he's the ninth richest man in the world and the richest man in Asia.
His fortune is centered on two, massive global conglomerates, Cheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa. Yet very few Americans have heard of him.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Stocks and Commodities About to Go Bust? Questions and Answer / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
I am very pleased to announce that we have arrived at the point of maximum confusion. The voices you hear are real, and what they are saying is also being generated by the haze within which we all find ourselves. You'd be best not to pay them any heed.
Your only goal now should be to maintain your sanity, as what happens next is sure to both terrify and surprise. Unfortunately, there's little we can say in advance to help you prepare for the shock and awe of what's imminent. Only stay calm. Keep your head. The impulsive and cocksure will be lost. The deliberate and even-keeled, saved.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Dow Leads Stock Market Down / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
“An impartial study of history reveals that the more government intervenes in an attempt to minimize the severity of cycles, the more extreme and violent they seem to become.” Richard RussellRead full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Stock Market Plunge as Bad as It Gets / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The indices suffered a very negative session to start the week. The indices gapped down below short-term support, and experienced a narrow but volatile session, particularly late in the afternoon. Net-net it closed at the lows for the day going away on the S&P 500 and very close to it on the Dow. Only the Nasdaq 100 managed to close above the lows, but still suffered a very steep loss.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Unfinished Business on the Downside for Nasdaq Q's / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
We review the daily chart of the PowerShares QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQQ) that goes back to the all-time high at 55.07 hit on 10/31/07. The price pattern, the RSI momentum configuration, and the volume levels ALL suggest strongly that the Q's have unfinished business on the downside.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Stock Market Buying Value on the Dips / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss – we don't get fooled again. Instead of lyrics to a Who song, it could easily be applied to Tim Geithner's unveiling of the new TARP plan. The market reaction is the same as that of previous Treasury chief Paulson. The rolling out of the initial TARP plan saw the markets embark upon a breathtaking dive that culminated with the first market bottom in mid-November. Let's hope that Tuesday's swoon does not follow the same path.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
U.S. Economy and Monetary System: Reviving The Patient / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Five trillion dollars, that's what it's going to cost for the good / bad bank and ballooning stimulus plans. Now that's serious money, not too mention serious inflation by strict definition in the sense money supply has been rising, but prices have not. And it's also a great deal of intervention to thwart what appears to be worsening economic problems; problems that continue to worsen despite all the prior interventions. This is of course what socialists do however; they just keep going back to the trough for more until they kill the patient. The socio-political backdrop has turned into a real zoo in this regard, where even Orwell, with his brilliant foresight , if asked way back when, would have likely had difficult imagining such a mess.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Stock Market Indices Breaking Lower / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
With the land of the free, home of the broke, the United States of Insolvency closed yesterday; markets had to look elsewhere for inspiration. The now ex Japanese Finance Minister found it in a bottle with reports that he was drunk at the G7 meeting over the weekend (see video below). More seriously though for markets. The S&P 500 futures has broken support and is now trading just above the pivotal 800 level. A break below 800 could see heavy selling pressure.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
No Sign of an Economic Recovery Yet? Look Again at BDI, Copper and Homebuilders / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
There are a number of early economic signals that are beginning to slowly surface that has not yet caught the attention of financial media. These slight changes to the commodity, bond and equity markets are the early indicators and building blocks of the next economic recovery. Throughout 2009 additional evidence is expected to gradually surface. Here are some of the most recent pieces of the recovery puzzleRead full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Stock Market and Commodities Base Building Considerations / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
The most salient feature of the markets at this juncture is the number of interim bases that have been building in several major sectors, including copper and other economically sensitive groups. In this commentary we’ll examine the bottoms currently being established for stocks and one of the key supports for the continued recovery in the precious metals mining sector, namely copper and copper mining shares.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Stock Market Dumb and Smart Money Become Bullish / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Both the "smart money" and "dumb money" became more bullish in their outlook last week. This is what one would expect from the "smart money" - lower prices bringing out more bulls. The "smart money" refers to those investors and traders who make their living in the markets. Supposedly they are in the know, and we should follow their every move.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, February 16, 2009
America's Financial Apocalypse 2009 Update / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Posting When It Matters - I want to thank those of you who've patiently waited during my apparent hiatus. I certainly wasn't on vacation. I don't take vacations. As I've said in the past, I'm not one to make daily or weekly posts for the sake of marketing. Guys who spend much of their time marketing are anything but leaders in their field, unless their field happens to be marketing.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, February 16, 2009
Déjà Vu As Banking Stocks Drag Indices Lower / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Stocks ended on a sour note Friday and down 5% for last week. One wonders where they might have ended if not for the giant stimulus package and the son of TARP? Markets had been fantasising that the Obama administration's big bang would at last put equities on the road to redemption but we remain no closer and there seems no rabbit left to pull. Financials were again caught in the cross wires as Lloyds share price plummeted on renewed nationalisation fears following revelations of a £10bn loss at basket case HBoS.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Stock Market Battles Between Bullish and Bearish Signals / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Peter Schiff (Seeking Alpha): This is just the beginning“The intense scrutiny recently paid to my investment strategy in the immediate wake of the financial crisis of the last six months has unfortunately obscured the central element of my larger economic forecast. The standard line has been that although I was able to predict the crash, in the form of the housing collapse and the credit crunch, my expected fallout of a weaker dollar and global decoupling has been proven false. However, this assumes that the crash has fully played out. In reality, all we have heard thus far is the overture.
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