Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, September 19, 2008
Financial Insanity: SEC Plans to Temporarily Ban Short-Selling / Stock-Markets / Government Intervention
Every time I think the height of insanity has been reached I have been proven wrong. My new official statement is: "There is no upward limit on insane actions by Congress, the SEC, the president, or for that matter anyone else."Already I need to amend a post I wrote moments ago: Stock Market Cheers Fiscal Insanity .
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Stock Market Cheers Fiscal Insanity / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The biggest stock market rallies occur in bear markets. Today we witnessed one of the biggest bear market rallies in history on Plans To Shore Up Banks .U.S. stocks rallied the most in six years on prospects the government will formulate a "permanent" plan to shore up financial markets, while regulators and pension funds took steps to curb bets against banks and brokerages.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Conditions Ripe For Huge Stock Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
"The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes." Benjamin Disraeli
In a difficult time for investors, it is refreshing to report a ray of hope in the charts below. In addition to the positive technical developments, two fundamental developments may help the market find an intermediate bottom:
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Paulson Seeks Resolution Trust Corporation "Solution" / Stock-Markets / Government Intervention
When you have done as much damage to taxpayers and the economy as Paulson has, one just might expect for him to go into hiding until the next administration fires him.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Systemic Failure of the United States- Game Over / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
We are in historically unprecedented times. The foundation is being laid for a default of USTreasurys in the wake of the greatest regulatory failure in modern history, and the collapse of the US financial system. Anyone who cannot see that suffers from poor vision, chronic nostalgia, low mental wattage, a paycheck from Wall Street, a post in financial press media, or owning an Economics advanced degree. So many changes come with each passing day, not week, that it boggles the mind. Many of us predicted $100 updays for gold, and we almost saw one. The wheels came off the US financial wagon long ago, but only now that fact is being recognized. The monetization largesse finally has gone beyond the corrupt bailouts of fraud kings on Wall Street.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Britain Bans Short-Selling Citing 'Extreme' Market Climate / Stock-Markets / Government Intervention
See Addendum: Ban is on Financials OnlyMarketWatch is reporting Britain bans short-selling, citing 'extreme' market climate .
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Britain's Financial Services Authority on Thursday announced the unprecedented move of banning short-selling and forbidding any increase in new positions. Also, disclosure will be required on all positions of more than 0.25% of a stock. The ban is due to remain in force until Jan. 16, but it will be reviewed in 30 days.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Real Reason for the Global Financial Crisis…the Story No One’s Talking About / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
Shah Gilani writes: Are you shell-shocked? Are you wondering what's really going on in the market? The truth is probably more frightening than even your worst fears. And yet, you won't hear about it anywhere else because “they” can't tell you. “They” are the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department, and they can't tell you what's really going on because there's nothing they can do about it, except what they've been trying to do – add liquidity.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
UK FSA Bans Hedge Fund Short Selling After Attack on HBOS / Stock-Markets / Government Intervention
The FSA in a statement issued a short while ago effectively bans hedge fund short-selling as of midnight tonight of financial stocks. This follows just 24 hours from my analysis ( Hedge Funds Crash Halifax, HBOS Rescued by Lloyds TSB) that in the wake of the HBOS collapse recommended UK government take immediate action to regulate short selling of financial institutions so as to allow the distressed banks time to negotiate with possible merger partners than to be forced into shot-gun weddings or worse as a consequence of relentless hedge fund short-selling that results in market panic actions that acts as a force of great instability for the whole of Britain's financial system.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Central Banks Swapping Bad Debt for Cash / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
"...Monetize labor, monetize stocks, monetize the farmers, monetize real estate..."
DAMNED IF THEY DO , damned if they don't, politicians the world over are looking pretty sheepish right now. Nationalizing failed banks, mortgage lenders and insurance firms hardly makes for a strong election pitch. It won't do much to coax fresh risk capital into shoring up financial balance-sheets, either.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
China Stock Market ETF Near-Term Bottom? / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
My near and intermediate-term work on the iShares China ETF (AMEX: FXI) indicates that the September 17 low at 30.25 and the upmove into this morning's high at 33.48 established the first coordinate in a near-term bottoming process, which if accurate argues for a recovery period that propels the FXI to the 37.00/50 area prior to the completion of the initial advance. The only question here is how much of the initial pop (30.25-33.48) will be retraced on US market weakness? We are about to find out.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
China, Russia Governments Intervene to Halt Stock Market Panic / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
On the heels of Central Banks announcing Global Coordinated Liquidity Measures , China and Russia have both announced plans to intervene directly in the equity markets.Let's take a look at both countries starting with Russia Pledges $20 Billion for Stocks, Cuts Oil Tax .
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Stock, Commodities and Currency Futures Markets Analysis / Stock-Markets / Futures Trading
The December NASDAQ 100 was higher due to short covering overnight as it consolidated some of Wednesday's decline. Stochastics and the RSI are oversold, diverging but are bearish signaling that additional weakness is possible near-term. Closes below March's low crossing at 1703.75 would open the door for a possible test of weekly support crossing at 1527.12 later this fall. Closes above the 20-day moving average crossing at 1809.97 are needed to confirm that a short-term low has been posted. The September NASDAQ 100 was up 23.00. pts. at 1670.00 as of 5:55 AM CST. First resistance is broken support marked by March's low crossing at 1703.75. Second resistance is the 10-day moving average crossing at 1735.52. First support is Wednesday's low crossing at 1639.75. Second support is weekly support crossing at 1527.12. Overnight action sets the stage for a higher opening by December NASDAQ 100 when the day session begins later this morning.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Drowning Fed Swimming Against the Credit Crisis Tide / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: If there's one lesson you can take away from this financial crisis, it's this: Whenever the U.S. Federal Reserve squares off against the financial markets, it ends up as the loser.
In recent weeks, I've written several articles suggesting that the credit crisis isn't over and detailed the three indicators that led me to this conclusion - despite what the politicians, the pundits and all the other so-called "experts" would have you believe.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Credit Crisis Out of Control- US Government Admission "No One Knows What to Do" / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
In the wake of Global Financial Seizures that has affected housing, the stock market, and bonds Reid Says `No One Knows What to Do' to Solve Crisis .
The U.S. Congress is unlikely to pass new legislation to overhaul financial regulations this year because "no one knows what to do,'' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Precarious Global Financial Position Set to Worsen / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
Despite the incessant, nauseating calls for a bottom in real estate and banks, financial firms now find themselves in their most vulnerable conditions since the credit crisis began last summer. Just this week alone we were given three data points that help underscore just how precarious a situation these companies are in.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Global Financial Seizure, Massive Flight to Safety, Gold Soars / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Gold bulls have something to smile about today as it is soaring by more than $50 in the wake of renewed financial seizures. The markets have greeted the news Nationalization of AIG: Treasury to get 80% stake in return for $85 billion with a bang.Treasury Secretary Paulson has been on the phone all day assuring multiple countries Don't Worry, The Banking System Is Sound .
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Credit Crisis Reaches Boiling Point: Buy Gold Now! / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
There could be heroes that emerge in the market tumult, but I urge you not to try to be one of them.
Financial markets around the world are now fraught with uncertainty and fragility. The cemetery of those who have lost their shirts trying to call "the bottom" is rapidly running out of vacant grave sites.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Comrade Bernanke and the Socialist Republic of the United States / Stock-Markets / Nationalization
By nationalizing nearly 80% of AIG for $85 billion, the Fed is doing a lot more than simply flushing taxpayer money down the toilet. The greater wrong is allowing the agency that has the power to print money to take control of a private enterprise, especially without the approval of the company's shareholders. The move represents the largest lurch toward socialism that this country has ever seen, and signals the end of the vibrancy of America's once vaunted free market economy. Since there is no limit to the amount of money the Fed can create, there is no limit to the number of assets they can acquire.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Financial Markets Fear and Uncertainty Remain After AIG Bailout / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
"The U.S. government seized control of American International Group Inc. -- one of the world's biggest insurers -- in an $85 billion deal that signaled the intensity of its concerns about the danger a collapse could pose to the financial system. The step marks a dramatic turnabout for the federal government, which had been strongly resisting overtures from AIG for an emergency loan or some intervention that would prevent the insurer from falling into bankruptcy. Just last weekend, the government essentially pulled the plug on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., allowing the big investment bank to go under instead of giving it financial support." Wall Street Journal, 9/16/2008Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Paulson- Don't Worry, The Banking System Is Sound / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
Dateline July 21, 2008Paulson: U.S. Banking System Fundamentally Sound
"Our banking system is a safe and a sound one."
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