Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Plan to Keep Your Assets Safe From an Out-of-control Government / Stock-Markets / Investing 2012

By: Terry_Coxon

Terry Coxon, Casey Research writes: By keeping all your assets in the country where you live, you commit, ahead of time, to ratify whatever policy your home government might adopt, no matter how objectionable, unreasonable or pernicious that policy happens to be. If the next new mandate is "Register today to get a nail pounded into your head," you're already signed up.

Americans, by and large, run all their affairs within the confines of the US. The US economy is so large and so varied that it's easy to assume that everything you want to do with your wealth can be done without crossing any borders. And people in the US, like people anywhere, live with the habits and attitudes developed over generations. They're only human. In the case of Americans, those habits grew out of long experience with a government that was small and that generally practiced the rare virtue of following its own laws. In a happy exception to mankind's experience with rulers, there was little to fear from it.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Chinese and Indian Tails Wagging the Global Equity Dog? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Adam_Brochert

There is no significant decoupling in our current global economy. As I am typing this, the Chinese stock market (Shanghai Index or $SSEC) is making new lows (intraday basis) for the current decline it has been undergoing. Is the Chinese market signaling what comes next for developed stock markets like the US and Germany? Is the tail predicting what the dog will do? I think it is.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Gerald Celente's Top 12 Forecast Trends 2012 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012

By: LewRockwell

Hold onto your hat, your wallet, and your wits.

After a tumultuous 2011 in which many of the trends we had forecast became headline news around the world, we are now forewarning of an even more tumultuous year to come.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Stock Market SPX SELL / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Trying to sell/sell short on the initial plunge is a dubious endeavor. However, the snap-back often gives you a better entry.

Those that went flat yesterday now have an opportunity to re-enter.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Learning from MF Global Bankruptcy / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: William_Bancroft

In this article we look at how the failure of MF Global might affect the financial markets and trade in general. We learn from one of the gold market’s most famous investors, Jim Sinclair, and hear how this incident might affect the gold price. Mr Sinclair’s comments are worth reading for all investors but especially those inclined toward gold and silver.

During our spare moments reading apparently ‘anoraky’ financial books, we come across the odd gem that we excitedly recommend to our friends for a week or two in a flush of enthusiasm.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Mark Mobius Betting Millions on Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets

By: Money_Morning

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: You may be surprised to learn that some of the world's best investors are buying heavily right now - not because they think we've hit a bottom, or even the bottom, but because they're setting themselves up for the next big run.

Take Mark Mobius, for example.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Stock Market Year End Chaos / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

The SPX has one more support level to break through, and that is the weekly mid-cycle support at 1194.37. Once that is accomplished, the next levels for is the cycle bottom support at 1014.11. The support also corresponds with the bottom trendline of a massive Orthodox Broadening Top formation.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Stock Market Breakdown / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

The SPX has broken below its prior weekly low at 1209.47 on December 14. This week we should see a drop below the 1150.67 low and possibly to the minimum target of 1025 .00 before any kind bounce. The cycles suggest that we may not see a bottom until December 29.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Good Night Dear Leader, South Korea's Kospi Falls 3.4% / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: PhilStockWorld

Asia was in turmoil last night as news of the death of Kim Jong Il hit the wires.  South Korea’s Kospi Index fell 3.4%, both the Shanghai and Hang Seng fell more than 2% at their opens but, along with the Nikkei, they all finished strong and down about 1.25%.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Why We May See a Rally in U.S. Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Money_Morning

David Zeiler writes: With so much negative news dominating the headlines, investors can't be blamed for being worried or shying away from stocks. But if you take closer look at the market - specifically the Standard & Poor's 500 index - you might be surprised by what you see.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Stock Market Ready to Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Andre_Gratian

SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are down and, if they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep and prolonged decline into 2014.

SPX: Intermediate trend - The current action suggests that a wave "C" from 1075 is underway and, after a short consolidation, is about to resume its uptrend.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Euro Collapse Crisis Sledgehammer Pounds Into Stock Market Santa Rally / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Santa's Late! The stock market as measured by the DJIA closed the week down at 11,866, showing significant deviation from the santa rally script with barely a week remaining, the lack of progress to the upside has been as a consequences of the increasing mass of unserviceable debt out of the euro-zone where politicians repeatedly show themselves to be ignorant of the facts and what to do to get out of the hole that the euro-zone is sinking deeper into an economic depression each day.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

December Dual Trading in Progress: Views From Inter Market / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: Capital3X

December is tracing our views till now. First a rally to 1260 on SP500 and then a muted correction to the confluence zone at 1210 and culminating a rally back to 1250/60 zone area to finish a rather eventful and volatile year which once again brought to the fore the broken structure of the world economy.

We present key major currency charts and macro economic analysis to validate our views.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Gold and Stocks Signal Start of a Bear Market for 2012 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012

By: Clive_Maund

Last week saw a severe breakdown in the Precious Metals sector that is now viewed as marking the start of a bearmarket, and that means the onset of a deflationary episode that is likely to prove more serious than that we witnessed in 2008, because it will involve countries going bust rather than "just" banks and large corporations as was the case in 2008.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Stocks Bull Bear Market Inflection Point / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Tony_Caldaro

A somewhat disappointing week as investor sentiment, in many areas, flipped from positive to negative. Losses from 2%+ to 4%+ were observed thoughout all of the world’s regions. Commodities confirmed downtrends losing 4.6% on the week. Crude oil and Gold lost 6%+. Ten year Bond rates confirmed another downtrend, (rising Bond prices). And, the USD resumed its uptrend gaining 2.1%. Risk off was definitely in vogue. For the week the SPX/DOW were -2.7%, and the NDX/NAZ were -3.5%. On the economic front indicators continued to improve as positive reports outnumbered negatives at a 2:1 ratio for the third week in a row. On the downtick: retail sales and industrial production turned lower, while export/import prices remained negative. On the uptick: business inventories, the NY and Philly FED, the CPI/PPI, the budget deficit, weekly jobless claims, excess reserves, and the WLEI all displayed improvement. Next week we’ll receive the final estimate for Q3 GDP, projected around +2.0%, and several reports on Housing. Best to your week!

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Stock Market Price is all that Matters, Everything else is Noise / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Tim_Wood

turned CNBC on one morning this past week just to see what the "squawk on the street" was. The primary concern as I listened was over the Fed meeting and whether or not we get a QE 3 in early 2012. A few months ago, as the August/October lows were being made the worry was all about Europe. Tomorrow it will be some other worry and next week it will be yet another. In reality, none of this matters and to sit and listen to the airheads on TV and try to figure out how this or that will impact the market is a fruitless exercise. Given that every piece of news known to man is discounted into price, then from a technical perspective, all we have to be concerned with is the price action itself. The key, of course, is understanding what price is telling you.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

The Stock Market Bleed Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: WavePatternTraders

In my last report a few days back, I spoke of the 1208ES area, it held for now, but the lack of upside is slightly troubling and with no real help from other risk markets, the markets appear to be still stuck in bleed mode, and stair stepping lower.

A couple of times we have bought into the lows on the end of the trading day and in globex looking for a surprise upside move, although we are getting 20 handle rallies, the bounces are still not seeing enough upside movement to suggest a low in place.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

The Truth About the Stock Market and Presidential Election Years! / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Sy_Harding

Next year is a Presidential election year, and the stock market is almost always positive in election years. Right? At least that assurance has been a supposed truism for many decades, and repeated as fact each year in numerous interviews and financial columns.

And it makes sense.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Is The Stock Market Following A Script? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: David_Grandey

Is the market following a script? If it is you had better be prepared. Here is what we mean.
Here is a chart of the nasdaq Composite from 2000.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Gaining from the Inflation/Deflation Conundrum / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: DeepCaster_LLC

Amid the Chaos of the Financial Markets and The Economy, One Essential Key to Successful Investing in 2012 is Clear as a Pure Toned Bell.

That One Key Reveals itself to us upon considering just a very few facts.

Via its promise to keep interest rates low until 2013, The U.S. Fed is already engaging in (and prepared to engage in more) QE 3. For example, Operation Twist does provide more liquidity by lengthening Treasuries’ Terms.