Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Sunday, August 05, 2007
Dow Jones Stock Market Meltdown - It's a Bloodbath! / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch
By: Mike_Whitney
On Friday the Dow Jones took a 280 point nosedive on fears that that losses in the subprime market will spill over into the broader economy and cut into GDP. Ever since the two Bears Sterns hedge funds folded a couple weeks ago the stock market has been writhing like a drug-addict in a detox-cell. Yesterday's sell-off added to last week's plunge that wiped out $2.1 trillion in value from global equity markets. New York investment guru, Jim Rogers said that the real market is “one of the biggest bubbles we've ever had in credit” and that the subprime rout “has a long way to go.”
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Stock Market Update: So Much for a Vacation! / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Dominick
Well, Dom's going for a second take at his first vacation since starting TTC, so this is Joe filling in again. Dom's attempt at getting some time off ended when he returned early to prepare members and guide them through what turned out to be an important and profitable week. While he should have been on the beach, one of hardest working man in the business was instead at his desk pounding the table and getting members to buy the bottoms and sell the tops… again and again.
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
Foot and Mouth Outbreak to Hit FTSE 100 Index / Stock-Markets / UK Stock Market
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Latest reports suggest that the Foot and Mouth virus strain to hit the UK on Thursday is one that is NOT normally found in animals and is linked to vaccines. The strain is thought to originate from the Institute for Animal Health just three miles from the outbreak farm.
The last out break of Foot and Mouth disease in the UK in 2001 cost the Economy an estimated £10 billion ($20 billion) with the agricultural and tourism sectors of the economy hit hard. The government at the time was accused of gross incompetence in the handling of the crisis which saw the destruction of more than 6 million animals and closure of much of the British countryside as well as export bans.
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
Stock Market Crash Alert: What to Do to Protect Yourselves / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: With the Dow down over 280 points yesterday and the dollar sinking fast, I just wanted to make absolutely sure you didn't miss my alert of this past Monday. So here it is again. All our signals are equally valid; all our instructions, equally urgent.
With last week delivering the worst stock market rout in nearly five years, millions of investors are in a state of paralysis.
They're finally beginning to wake up to the enormity of the meltdown in the housing market.
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
Volatility Delivers Wake-Up Call to Financial Sphere / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Joseph_Russo
Likely resulting from decades of imprudent financial engineering, the uncertainty-surrounding discovery as to the potential extent of collateral damage from such shenanigans remains immeasurable and unknown.
Similar to those engineers about to embark upon months of intense investigation in attempt to determine cause of the sudden bridge collapse in Minnesota - the omnipotent financial sphere is just beginning to access whether or not the minor structural fractures, (which market volatility has so blatantly revealed) could possibly morph into a sudden and total collapse of similar dimension.
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Friday, August 03, 2007
A Few Thoughts on the Recent Credit Crisis - Half of All Hedge Funds Gone? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: John_Mauldin
In this issue:
Inflation is Baked into the CPI Numbers
The Mortgage Pig in the Python
Housing Starts Look to Stop
A Few Thoughts on the Recent Credit Crisis
Half of All Hedge Funds Gone?
Golf, Weddings, and Europe
With the economy increasingly looking like it will slow down materially in the last half of the year, there is a drum beat for the Federal Reserve to cut rates. But how likely is a rate cut this year? We take a very different look at inflation to see if there is any room for the Fed to give a boost to the economy. We look over our shoulder at Japan and the yen carry trade and ask a heretical question: does the Fed cutting rates make any difference?
Friday, August 03, 2007
It's the Fundamentals Stupid / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Peter_Schiff
Amid the recent stock market weakness, the pundits are virtually unanimous in their claims that good underlying economic fundamentals are being trumped by irrational fear. However, if investors understood just how bad the fundamentals for the U.S. economy really are, they would dump stocks even faster. So, contrary to the rhetoric, it is not that investors are being too fearful, but that they are being too complacent.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, August 03, 2007
Why Financial Stocks Still Look Too Risky ... / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Money_and_Markets
Mike Larson writes: I don't want to pull any punches: This is the worst environment for banks, mortgage lenders, and the general U.S. financial industry that I've seen since 1998!
That's when gun-slinging hedge fund Long Term Capital Management bet billions of dollars in bond markets all over the world.
Everything went swimmingly … until Russia defaulted on its outstanding debts. That spooked global bond investors, prompting massive "flight to quality" buying in U.S. Treasuries. LTCM's bets went haywire and more than $4 billion in losses piled up.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
This is a Liquidity Driven Stock Market ... / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Marty_Chenard
Things have changed since Bernanke took office and M3 was discontinued. This put blinders on what the Fed was doing relative to Liquidity Injections.
Our Long Term Liquidity measurement is the closest we can get to seeing what Liquidity levels are and when they shift.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
Time to take out more Gold as Insurance Against a Financial Market Crash! / Stock-Markets / Gold & Silver
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: The market action I've been warning you about — a sharp drop in the Dow down to at least 11,000 — has started. There should be no doubt about that now.
We've recently seen …
The worst U.S. stock market decline in almost five years. Last week marked the S&P 500's steepest weekly drop since September 2003, and it was the worst week for the Dow since March 2003. All this just after I warned you repeatedly right here in Money and Markets that the U.S. markets were headed for a sharp contraction.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
Dow Jones Megaphone Bearish Stock Market Pattern / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Brian_Bloom
The following chart shows a megaphone formation. It also shows a sell signal in the MACD, but the RSI is in neutral territory.
A ‘megaphone' or ‘broadening' formation is essentially one which shows higher highs and lower lows. As this defies all logic, it is also a sign of a market which is highly emotional. Typically, this is a bearish formation because it is also a sign of a market spiralling out of control.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
Fed Fund Interest Rate Futures and Other Financial Market Signals / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Jim_Willie_CB
A quick review of signals surely can be both encouraging and confusing. They point to higher physical prices, calmer stock prices, and a continued housing crisis & mortgage debacle. The big banks and Wall Street broker dealers are breaking down very badly. The US Dollar bounce is already running out of steam, hampered by a restored expected interest rate cut. Remember: whatever is vigorously and repeatedly denied is almost surely to occur!!! Deception sells products.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
MPTrader -QID (UltraShort Q's) Not Finished on the Upside / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The ProShares UltraShort QQQQ (AMEX: QID) has climbed 16% off of its 7/19 low, but does not look complete on the upside (yet). All roads appear to point to 77.80-78.20 prior to the conclusion of the current upleg. At this juncture, only a decline that violates today's low at 45.60 will begin to compromise the projected target zone.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Holding the Toxic Debt Bag as Credit Crunch will Shred Investment Portfolios to Ribbons / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch
By: Dr_William_R_Swagell
"Credit crunch will 'shred investment portfolios to ribbons.'
When creditors led by Merrill Lynch forced a fire-sale of assets ( of two Bear Stearns hedge funds in danger of collapsing) , they inadvertently revealed that up to $2 trillion of debt linked to the crumbling sub-prime and “Alt A” property market was falsely priced on books… The banks halted the sale before “price discovery” set off a wider chain-reaction.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Wrestling with the Stock Market Bears / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Money_and_Markets
Sean Brodrick writes: Is a major bear market creeping up on us? Well, if you were listening to the talking heads on CNBC last week, it sure seemed like it. Sentiment got bearish in a hurry, and good stocks were trampled down with the bad.
Then the bounce on Monday was followed by a red-ink reversal yesterday. The quandary that investors face now is whether this market is:
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
HERE Come The BUYERS! - The Crack-up Boom Series Part VIII – Final / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Ty_Andros
The Crack Up Boom series is exploring the unfolding “Indirect Exchange” (as detailed by Ludvig Von Mises), that dollar holders will be using to exit their holdings now and eventually will be followed by all holders of fiat currency holdings no matter which country is perpetrating the “fraud” of confiscation of wealth through the printing and credit creation process that all such monetary schemes evolve into. The “Crack Up Boom” will drive an inflationary global expansion to inconceivable heights over the coming years. Asset prices will skyrocket as people do what they always do when threatened.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Dow Jones Industrials Skating on Thin Ice / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Gary_Dorsch
Perhaps the most important market in the world today is the vast network of foreign currencies, where total trading volume, including derivatives and futures, average around $2.9 trillion a day. This is ten times the size of the combined daily turnover on all the world's equity markets. And as world's economies have become increasingly integrated, so have the foreign exchange and global capital markets.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
MPTrader - S&P UltraShort ETF on the Rise / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Judging from the fact that the UltraShort S&P 500 ProShares ETF (AMEX: SDS) declined right to 54.01 from Friday's high at 56.87, held, and then turned up for a rally to the 55.70/75 area as we speak, suggests strongly that the "bullish scenario" (for the SDS, bearish for the major equity market ETFs) is unfolding.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Stock Market Internals Go Negative / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: John_Mauldin
Will the market rebound this week or continue last week's slide? Will the credit markets stop their turmoil? These are all questions that investors are confronted with by the financial press. In today's "Outside the Box," we will focus our attention on a well-thought out piece by John Hussman, Ph.D. John is the President of Hussman Investment Trust where he manages the Hussman Strategic Total Return Fund - HSTRX and the Hussman Strategic Growth Fund – HSGFX.
In his Weekly Market Comment , John addresses the recent market volatility and puts it in historical perspective, comparing it in duration to that of previous market cycles. We have currently gone almost 1200 days without a 10% correction, the second longest such period on record.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
The Stock Market Crash of 2007 / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Greg_Silberman
They say history doesn't repeat it merely rhymes. If that's the case, we may be setting up for a 2007 market crash. Take a look at this 1987 stock market crash picture:
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