Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Nasdaq Presses on Without Apple Support / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: PhilStockWorld

What an exciting index!

On Tuesday, as one of our "5 More Trade Ideas that make 500% in an Up Market", we went long on 16 QQQ Jan $75/80 bull call spreads at $3 ($4,800) and paid for them by selling 2 ISRG 2015 $300 puts for $23.50 ($4,700) for net $100 on the $8,000 spread in our virtual Short-Term Portfolio.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

What You Need to Know About the Dow Stock Index's Big Changes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

In the biggest Dow Index changes in nearly a decade, Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), and Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) are being dumped from the closely watched 30-stock index.

Athletic gear maker Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) steps into the place of Alcoa, a Dow component for 54 years. Payments company Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) will unseat HP, which joined the blue-chip benchmark in 1997. And Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) replaces BofA, which joined the index five years ago.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Wall Street Mirrors Sentiments of Main Street / Stock-Markets / US Economy

By: Submissions

Eleonora  writes: Homeowners face uncertainty moving forward! Major developments are taking place in the banking sector across the United States. The mortgage boom is now a thing of the past. More and more banks across the United States are closing their facilities and financial units that traditionally worked with customers to refinance their home loans. In fact, one of the major lenders – JP Morgan – laid-off an estimated 2,000 workers during the month of August. 50% of the workers were in the home loans departments.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Dow and S&P Stock Market Indices Range Bound, Nasdaq in Bullish Breakout / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Christopher_Quigley

The “Syrian Conflict pullback” is over and the market is back in bullish mode, particularly the NASDAQ which has just given a bullish breakout signal.

For the third time the 1480’ish level on the Dow Transports has held. With this support holding, the bull trend is back in business on the Industrials the Transports and the S&P. However, they are range bound.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Three "Dead Money" Investments, Plus One "Living Large" / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

Robert Hsu writes: Yesterday we looked at what may now be the single greatest risk to your retirement dreams - a seemingly benign 1% move in the 10-year Treasury yield. (See Part I.)

So now I'm going to show you what to do about it...

Remember, if we're going to keep increasing our wealth at a significant pace, we need to make a big adjustment.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Stock Market Setup for a Perfect Storm / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

TNX rallied this morning, instead of declining, as I had reported earlier. This leaves a probable irregular correction, also known as a “running correction.” A breakout may be the catalyst for the SPX reversal as well.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

There's Only One Thing About Syria That Matters to Americans / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

Shah Gilani writes: Let's talk about Syria and how what's happening there is affecting the markets.

I see oil rising to two-year highs. I see gold rising to three-month highs. Let's see, what else is being affected? Oh, that would be nothing.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

How a 1% Gain Can Destroy Your Retirement Dreams / Stock-Markets / Pensions & Retirement

By: Money_Morning

Robert Hsu writes: This has been the bond market's worst showing in 19 years, thanks to the recent spike in the 10-year Treasury yield. But bond investors aren't the only ones getting hit.

A higher "risk-free" rate affects you, too. And me. And anyone else trying to grow their money.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Stocks Bull Market Confirmed by MWA Set to Continue?  / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Marc_Horn

On the 3rd December 2012 MWA confirmed the long term bull market. How the DAX on 3 December at 11:24 confirmed a long term bull market.

Is this bull set to continue? There is a lot of conflicting views currently about how the world is coming to an end - hyperinflation, sovereign debt crisis, unemployment, war, US government NSA spying scandals, G20 global tax hunt, oh and I must not forget Al Qaeda.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

And the Loser in the Smartphone Battle Is… / Stock-Markets / Mobile Technology

By: Profit_Confidential

George Leong writes: At a time when the smartphone war is picking up, former Wall Street star BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ/BBRY) is running for the exit as fast as it can. The company is expected to be sold in some form by November, as it tries to unload its issues on another company.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Cheap Money Means Nothing is safe – Not student loans, Emerging markets, or London flats... / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency

By: Adrian_Ash

Did you enjoy your monthly dose of non-farms nonsense last Friday?

Gold and silver both erased Thursday's drop when the latest US jobs figures were released. Set your gold or silver chart to one-week (1w) to see the silliness.

But were August's non-farm payrolls really so meaningless? Cutting the jobless rate is one-half of the US Federal Reserve's mandate (the other is beating inflation - or whisking it, perhaps, after folding in egg whites). And whatever he does (or doesn't do) to quantitative easing at next week's much-awaited policy meeting, Fed chairman Bernanke has made a 7.0% jobless rate a key condition for any talk of raising Dollar interest rates from zero.

Monday, September 09, 2013

Stock Market Ready for Wave C Decline? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over), there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, the severe correction of 2007-2009 may have curtailed the full downward pressure potential of the 40-yr and 120-yr cycles.

Intermediate trend - SPX and some other indices have formed a H&S top which was confirmed with last week's sell-off. An intermediate term correction is under way.

Sunday, September 08, 2013

Stock Market S&P Upside In Question. Watch The Nasdaq / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Michael_Noonan

The point of reading developing market activity, as seen in charts, is to eliminate any need to “predict” what may develop next day, week, or month. There is no more reliable a source of information than the market itself. Everything one needs to know is found within price and volume activity, over time. If you know the market trend, and you have some solid rules of engagement, profitable success is almost assured.

The stock market has made historic highs, but there are questions regarding its ability to sustain the upward drive during the natural market-aging process. Last time, there was a discussion about rules and a need for caution, [S&P And NAS - Best Offense Is A Good Defense, click on http://bit.ly/1dAUwUB, if you missed it].

Saturday, September 07, 2013

Stock Market Downtrend Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Tony_Caldaro

For a four day trading week this one certainly had some volatility. After ending last week only five points from the downtrend low the market gapped up on Tuesday hitting SPX 1651. Then it dropped to SPX 1633, rallied to 1662, dropped to 1641, then rallied to 1665. For the week the SPX/DOW were +1.10%, the NDX/NAZ were +1.95% and the DJ World index closed +2.1%. Economic reports again had a positive bias. On the uptick: ISM manufacturing/services, construction spending, monthly payrolls, the monetary base, and both the unemployment rate plus weekly jobless claims improved. On the downtick: the ADP index, factory orders, the WLEI and the trade deficit worsened. Next week we get consumer credit, retail sales and consumer sentiment.

Saturday, September 07, 2013

Stock Market Not Strong Enough.....For Either Side... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Jack_Steiman

The bulls tried very hard to blast through 1656. The confluence of two-key moving averages and gaps couldn't keep the bulls from getting through with some force early on as the Jobs Report came in just right. Not too hot and not too cold. The Fed likely to keep pumping, yet the economy not slowing so badly as to think things are falling apart. The bulls couldn't have asked for more. So the question was would the bulls get through 1656 and run higher or not. The answer was not.

Saturday, September 07, 2013

Mega Financial Market Movers and Impending Moves / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: DeepCaster_LLC

The next very few months present an extraordinary number of Mega-Market Movers and Moves Impending.

Here we identify Key ones and indicate how Investors may best Profit and Protect.

The Most Obvious is Syria. President Obama has said that any Strike would be Surgical and Limited in Scope. But little consideration has apparently been given to probable Retaliation by the variety of U.S. Opponents including most likely by the Proxies of Major opponents – Proxies provide “Plausible Deniability”. Consider that Russia, for example, is not only an Ally of the Assad Regime, but also has its sole Major Mediterranean Naval Base in Syria. And, as we predicted in our Alert earlier this week, President Putin has now said Russia would assist Syria if the U.S. attacks Syria. And, while not likely to retaliate, China and the U.K. and others have declared a policy of Non Support of the U.S.

Friday, September 06, 2013

Stock Market Corrective Bounce - Elliott Wave Forecast / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Gregor_Horvat

S&P has been trading lower last week but then it reversed higher from 1625 area which is fine because we had five sub-waves down in wave (A), but we know that after every five wave move correction will follow and that is exactly what has been happing in this week.  Market rallied higher with corrective personality; wave (B) as labeled on the chart. In Elliott Wave theory wave (B) are against the larger trend which means that sooner or later we expect move to the downside!

Friday, September 06, 2013

Markets Focused on the Wrong Target / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: John_Browne

In recent months economic commentators and financial markets have focused almost excessively on the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing ("QE") policy as the market's main driver. However, last month two senior economists at the Federal Reserve published a report entitled 'How Stimulating Are Large-Scale Asset Purchases' which calls this devotion into question.

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Stock Market… A Barrel of Monkeys / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: John_Mauldin

By Grant Williams

"What's more fun than a Barrel of Monkeys? Nothing!"

Not my words, but those of the Milton Bradley Co., which still produces under license a game first created by a gentleman named Leonard Marks, who sold the rights to his simple but addictive game to Lakeside Toys in 1965.

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Why Investors Are Fleeing Both the Bond and Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: Profit_Confidential

Michael Lombardi writes: Late last year, the concept of the “Great Rotation” became popular. The idea behind the Great Rotation was simple: the theory was that once the bond prices started to decline, investors would take their money out of bonds and put them into the equity markets.

The logic behind the Great Rotation made sense. When one asset class becomes too risky, the bond market in this case, investors usually run towards other assets. But the Great Rotation isn’t happening?