Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Friday, July 03, 2015

China's Stock Market Rollercoaster Ride Continues / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market

By: EWI

But There is a way to endure the wild ride -- with Elliott wave analysis

"Chao gu" is the Chinese term for speculating in stocks. Roughly translated, it means "stir-frying" shares. Lately, though, for millions of Chinese investors, it means getting fried.

Friday, July 03, 2015

Capital Controls and a Bank Holiday in Greece… Here’s How You Can Profit / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis

By: Casey_Research

By Nick Giambruno

For the unprepared, it happens like a mugging…

When you hear a central banker or politician deny that something is going to happen to bank depositors, you can almost be certain that it will happen. And probably soon.

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Three Total Wealth Stock Investor Tactics You’ll Need Because Greece Isn’t Over / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: ...

MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Greece actually missed its payment last night, exactly as we thought it would. And in doing so, it became the first Eurozone country to ever default on its debt. Some say that the country is in “arrears,” but that’s splitting hairs.

At this point, “everybody” wants quick resolution.

Things are so bad that nearly 14,000 people have contributed to a crowdfunding page started by a 29 year old Londoner, Thom Feeney, on Indiegogo.com. As of yesterday, donations totaled $245,000.

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Greece Good....Greece Bad....Greece Vote Sunday..... Stock Market Froth Still High.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Jack_Steiman

Greece is the number one headline these days. We have other factors to look at from froth to horrific-looking monthly-index charts. But, by far, the most popular and important subject with regards to the health of the stock market is based on how things are moving along, or not, with Greece. Will they default after the vote on Sunday? Will the public speak up and vote yes on the sanctions for which the Euro zone are asking? Will Tsipras give in to the people? No one knows the answers to those questions.

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Greek Debt Crisis: "Too late to prepare now" - Video / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis

By: EWI

An Elliott wave perspective on the Greek crisis

Today, I got on the phone with Brian Whitmer, editor of our monthly European Financial Forecast.

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Stock Market Increased Risk Levels ... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Marty_Chenard

The VIX (see the chart below) is showing increasing stress levels.

Note that the VIX has risen above the blue dotted resistance line level. Since the VIX moves opposite to the stock market, this was a bad event on Monday.

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Greece Debt Crisis Trigger for Stock Market Crash or Bull Rally? Video / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The Dow stocks index has been on a volatile slide since making its 18,350 new all time high of Mid May, having recently nudged to a low of 17,600 that many have attributed in large part to the unfolding Greece debt crisis, the latest of which is Greece missing its deadline for a Euro 1.6 billion repayment to the IMF Tuesday that has galvanised stock market bears to once more proclaim that the stocks bull market is over and a new bear market has begun.

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

SPX Stock Market Retracement May be Over / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

The SPX retracement was stopped at its Ending Diagonal trendline at 2082.00, having briefly challenged it at 2082.78. It is now beneath the neckline of the Head & shoulders formation at 2075.00. Head & shoulders patterns allow throwbacks for a brief period, as long as the index does not close above them. This one apparently qualifies.

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

The End of Dow 18,000; Bailouts No Longer Extended  / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Doug_Wakefield

Eurogroup Says Greece Bailout Program Will Not Be Extended And Will Expire on June 30, ABC News, June 27, 2015

Greece Debt Crisis: Banks to Remain Shut All Week, BBC, June 29, 2015

Greece Confirms It Will Default On Its IMF Payments, Financial Post, June 30 ‘15

“We have to admitted we are powerless over alcohol, that our lives are unmanageable” – First Step in Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Steps

The World Is Defenseless Against The Next Financial Crisis, Warns BIS, The Telegraph, June 28 ‘15

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

China Stocks - This Is What a Bubble Looks Like / Stock-Markets / China Stocks

By: Investment_U

Matthew Carr writes: We just experienced another “Black Friday”...

Not in the U.S. markets, but across the Pacific in China.

You want to talk about overvalued? Overheated? The Chinese stock markets were on a tear earlier this year. The Shanghai Composite was up more than 100% at the start of June... and most of that was accomplished between the end of March and the beginning of June.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Stocks Plunge on Greece Euro-Zone Financial Armageddon Blackmail / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The Syriza government that like a spoilt child keeps throwing its toys out of the euro-zone pram has been pushing Greece towards economic and financial collapse since its January election win, as Syriza continues to blackmail the euro-zone that if Greece does not get its way then they will take the euro-zone down with them, prompting markets to discount the potential contagion effect of the Greece debt default, bank run saga being replicated amongst other larger Euro-zone member states that has prompted stock markets to slide across europe and the wider world as illustrated by yesterdays Dow and FTSE plunges that have galvanised the bears into action to once more proclaim the stocks bull market end is nigh.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Stock Investors Express Route to Profits in the Healthcare Sector / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: ...

MoneyMorning.com Tom Gentile writes: A lot of Baby Boomers are now running smack dab into their retirement.

An aging population coupled with the rising cost of healthcare and prescription drugs is a potent brew for profiting in the healthcare sector.
And it's no wonder that this company is in the spotlight with long-term analysts.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

How China Lost an Entire Spain in 17 Days / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market

By: EconMatters

Concerned about a tumbling equity market, PBOC moved to cut both interest rates and the reserve requirement ratio for banks over the weekend.  However, increasingly wary of a market bubble in China, investors still sent Shanghai Composite spiraling down another 3.3% on Monday after the dramatic 7.4% plunge last Friday despite the support from the central bank.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Greece Rocks Stock Market Lower... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Jack_Steiman

The news over the weekend was bad regarding any possibility of a settlement with Greece, thus the markets in the Euro zone were getting hammered when trading opened up last night. We followed along as usual, and, as usual, we weren't as bad as they were, which is totally understandable, but we were down hard enough to make folks feel that nasty feeling in the pit of their stomachs, especially those overtrading in a risky environment. I had warned repeatedly last week that the risk was running higher and higher each day as we headed towards the deadline of June 30. That was the date when Greece had promised to bundle all of their payments in to one large payment. They made it clear that wasn't going to happen and that's when the negotiations began. Unfortunately they didn't go well and this is the result. We were lucky.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Marc Faber - Greece is Basically Bankrupt / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis

By: Bloomberg

Marc Faber, Editor of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Stephanie Ruhle, Joe Weisenthal and Scarlet Fu about the U.S. economy, financial markets and the Greek debt crisis.

Describing the situation in Greece, Faber said: "My sense is that they will come to some kind of an agreement in the last minute. But I don't think that's any positive because Greece is basically bankrupt. The debt should be written down by 50 percent or more. However, I have this to say. I don't believe that stocks are going down because of Greece. I believe that the market has been weakening internally for a long time."

Monday, June 29, 2015

Greece - Shoot the Dog and Sell the Farm / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis

By: John_Mauldin

“If this were a marriage, the lawyers would be circling.” - The Economist, My Big Fat Greek Divorce, 6/20/2015

Greece is again all the buzz in the media and on the commentary circuit. If you’re like me, you are suffering terminal Greece fatigue. You just want Greece and its creditors to “do something already” rather than continually coming to the end of every week with no resolution, amid finger-pointing and dire warnings from all sides about the End of All Things Europe – maybe even the world.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Grexit?, BIS Warning, Chinese Market Crash & Systemic Risk Shake the Global Economy / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis

By: GoldCore

- Persistent low rates leave central banks with no ammunition to fight next crisis
- BIS says short-sighted central banks and governments contributed to current weaknesses
- Lack of policy options have forced some central banks to stretch “boundaries of the unthinkable”
- Bust in developed economies the main risk facing global economy
- Greece prepares to default
- China markets routed overnight
- Gold will be last man standing when currencies collapse

Monday, June 29, 2015

Bubbles Never Pop Painlessly / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble

By: Michael_Pento

Investors are obsessed over predicting the timing of the Fed's first interest rate hike. Will it raise the Fed Funds rate in September, or wait until next year? But it is far more important to get a grasp on the pace of rate hikes. Will it be a one and done move, or does this mark the beginning of an incremental tightening cycle? Those of us who are not in the inner circle are forced to only speculate.

But one thing is certain: If history is any guide, whatever they do the Fed will get it wrong. Most market commentators place unfounded belief in the Fed's acumen. But the truth is: I wouldn't trust the Fed to tell me what the weather is going to do in the next 30 seconds -- even if they were looking out the window.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Volatility and Sleep-Walking Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Raul_I_Meijer

It is with immense pleasure that I can introduce the return to The Automatic Earth of my friend and co-founder Nicole Foss. If only because I myself can now retire to a beach chair…. (not).

With the violent swings that have started and been amplified in Asia overnight, as well as in European and US futures, Nicole’s piece on volatility is quite pertinent.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Greece BANKRUPT! Financial and Economic Collapse to Follow IMF Debt Default / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Syriza government betrays Europe and the Greek people says angry EU President Juncker, by Syriza lying to its people on the truth of Greece's proposed bailout conditions and that he has no trust left in Tsipras. Juncker in blunt language made it clear that a NO vote on the 5th July referendum (that I don't think will actually be held) would mean that Greece will be kicked out of the euro-zone.

“’No’ would mean, regardless of the final question, that Greece is saying no to Europe,”