Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Five Stock Market Questions Wall Street Hopes You’ll Never Ask / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Last week I heard from long-time reader Ms. Florence D. A sharp 87-years young, she’s facing a situation that’s all too common for many investors who were seduced by Wall Street’s overreliance on the “never lose money” mantra.
Now she’s got a few money-losing commodity and financial stocks on hand (not ones I recommended, fortunately) and is wondering if it’s time to “hire advice on each dog.”
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Investor implications of QE by the ECB / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: Axel_Merk
Is European Central Bank (ECB) head Draghi’s determination to purchase government bonds turning Europe into a banana republic? What are the implications not only for the euro and U.S. dollar, but gold, stocks and bonds? Our analysis shows that conventional wisdom may be proven wrong in more than one way.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Messin' With My Financial Brain / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Doug_Wakefield
Why is it that unlike anything else we purchase in our daily life, our brains are naturally hardwired to believe that when investment prices move higher, we must make purchases or hold on rather than start selling and reducing our position? The higher price go, the stronger the belief they will continue rising.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Are Stock Market Buyouts Checking Out? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: EWI
Two more key measures of optimism suddenly betray a diminishing appetite for stocks
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Are Stock Market Storm Clouds Massing? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Andre_Gratian
Current position of the market
SPX: Long-term trend – Bull Market
Intermediate trend – Is the 7-yr cycle sketching an intermediate top?
Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer market trends.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The Markets Have Just Issued a Major Warning / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: Submissions
Michael Campbell writes:
- The Swiss franc rose over 30% in a hour vs the Euro on Friday.
- Copper dropped 11% in three days last week
- Oil is down 56% since June
- Russian Ruble is down 70% in 3 weeks
- 7 European Countries have negative interest rates (i.e. buy a government bond and be guaranteed to get less money back)
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Swiss Say No to QE / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: Harry_Dent
The markets have had an array of abrupt reactions to the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) move to stop supporting the Swiss Franc against the euro from buying Swiss bonds.
The euro has crashed further, stocks have taken minor hits and gold has broken to the upside (as we expected near term).
But the biggest impact is likely to be on Mario Draghi’s up-and coming decision to ignite another heavily telegraphed round of quantitative easing (QE) to the tune of $1.2 trillion plus.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The Truth About This Stock Market "Meltdown" Indicator / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Money_Morning
We talk about why you should always be in the stock market (and NOT for the same reasons Wall Street wants you in, either). That's because being in the markets allows you tap into the inevitable growth that comes from capitalism and, by implication, humanity's upside.
Lately, though, people are beginning to doubt the premise behind that Total Wealth tactic.
That's due partly to recent trading action (which is unsettling), and partly due to the hype surrounding various indicators that are almost "guaranteed" to show a looming meltdown (which is unnerving).
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Markets Restrain Bank Fraud, But Central Banks Enable It / Stock-Markets / Central Banks
By: Frank_Shostak
Originally, paper money was not regarded as money but merely as a representation of a commodity (namely, gold). Various paper certificates represented claims on gold stored with the banks. Holders of paper certificates could convert them into gold whenever they deemed necessary. Because people found it more convenient to use paper certificates to exchange for goods and services, these certificates came to be regarded as money.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Markets 2015 More Of The Same? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2015
By: Puru_Saxena
BIG PICTURE – During the previous year, the stock markets of the developed world consolidated whereas the majority of the developing nations performed poorly.
In 2014, the European stock markets essentially traded sideways, Japan produced modest growth and unsurprisingly, Wall Street delivered the best returns. Over in the developing world, the commodities producing nations (Brazil and Russia) fared badly, whereas China, India, Philippines and Thailand produced decent growth.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
The Financial End Game 2.0 / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2015
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill
The events of the past few months seem astounding when taken in all at once. It appears to be a plan to destroy the U.S. dollar and the American middle class. And it seems to be moving faster.
In the wake of the March 2013 Cyprus 'bail in', where depositor accounts were used to save creditors, the G20 nations agreed that bank deposits would no longer be considered money.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
Top in Dow? Stock Market Mid-Term Outlook / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Joseph_Russo
Have the equity markets finally peaked? In our view, they should have never carried on as they have - but with psychopaths at the helm of the financial sphere, you just never know what the future will bring.
It's been a long, long time since financial markets have actually reflected what's taking place in mainstream economies, and as such, it's been a similarly long time since we've even bothered to try and correlate the two.
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
The "Gnomes of Zürich" Created a Financial Nightmare / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2015
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: On Halloween, the Bank of Japan unleashed a massive quantitative easing program that included the purchase of bonds, stocks and ETFs in a desperate attempt to revive the terminally ill Japanese economy. This coincided with the end of the Federal Reserve's third round of QE in October.
At that point, the world entered the terminal phase of central banking that unleashed heightened volatility in stocks, bonds and currencies.
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
State of the U.S. Markets 2015 Report and Online Conference / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: EWI
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
Stock Market Rocky Beginning to 2015 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Tony_Caldaro
The US market had another down week to extend the streak to three. The market started the week at SPX 2045, dropped to 2023 on Monday, rallied to 2057 on Tuesday, then hit 1988 on Wednesday and again on Friday, before ending the week at 2019. For the week the SPX/DOW lost 1.25%, the NDX/NAZ lost 1.60%, and the DJ World index lost 0.45%. On the economic front, negative reports outpaced positive reports by a wide margin for the first time in many months. On the uptick: business inventories, the NY FED and consumer sentiment. On the downtick: retail sales, export/import prices, the CPI/PPI, the Philly FED, industrial production, capacity utilization, the WLEI, and the monetary base; plus the treasury surplus declined and weekly jobless claims rose. Next week, a holiday shortened one, we have Leading indicators, several reports on housing, and the much awaited ECB meeting.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Stock Market Deflation / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Tim_Wood
Ever since the 2000 stock market top, the natural deflationary cyclical forces have been bearing down on not only the stock market, but the underlying economy. It has been these natural deflationary cyclical forces in which the Money Masters have been fighting with their massive liquidity and intervention campaign. As a result of the unprecedented efforts to re-liquify the economy, the stock market has been the tool of choice to paint the illusion that everything is okay. As a result of the unprecedented efforts to re-inflate, this cycle has become the most extreme ever and as a result I believe the current market environment is the most dangerous since the inception of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Stock Market Dow Theory Sell Signal in the Making / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Christopher_Quigley
The death of the Euro as we know it.
I believe the decision yesterday by the Swiss Central Bank to end its pegged link to the Euro and change its interest rate to a negative .75% is as a seismic event in the history of European monetary integration.
Many financial journalists are commenting accordingly on many media channels that this event is one further step towards the eventual demise of the Euro.
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Friday, January 16, 2015
How to Tame the Volatile Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
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It isn't easy being an investor in the U.S stock market these days. Honestly, it feels more like being in a clinical trial for mood stabilizers. Or, as the market oracle himself Warren Buffett described it in December 2014:
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Friday, January 16, 2015
Will Collapse in Oil Price Cause a Stock Market Crash? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: OilPrice_Com
The Black Monday stock market crash of October 19th, 1987 was the largest one-day percentage decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The crash was a genuinely perplexing event. To informed observers it seemed to have little basis in economic fundamentals. There were various "hand-waving" theories, including that the introduction of automated trading on the Dow had injected instability into the market. However, at the time, Black Monday appeared to come out of nowhere.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Stock Market Negative Expectations Following Swiss National Bank Decision To Unpeg Its Currency / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, no speculative positions are justified.
Our intraday outlook remains neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral:
Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: neutral
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: neutral
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish