Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Major Stock Market Sell Off Warning, Investor Defensive Plays / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_and_Markets
Mike Burnick writes: Since Bryan is on vacation this week, Martin asked me to pinch-hit as a guest editor today. And it couldn’t come at a better time, because at present, the Weiss Capital Management† investment team is on high alert for a potential market sell-off.
We’ve had a nearly uninterrupted market rally over the past 12 months, but now we believe it’s time to play good defense … and take steps to help protect your gains. Let me explain why …
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Stocks Bull Market Continues Grinding Higher, Fear is Good! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Alistair Darling delivered his master stroke budget in advance of a May 6th General Election. The Tory's were put on the defensive as to where and what they would cut. The voters were left confused as the Tory high command accused Labour of stealing their policies again, why vote tory if Labour are offering very similar though less austere policies? Hence a narrowing in the polls into hung parliament territory. The tories need to develop a backbone and think up radical policies that differentiate them from the Labour party AND appeal to most voters else they really will blow their chances in about 6 weeks time.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Stock Market Slowly But Surely Unwinding..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
No real follow through again today by the bears after yesterday's reversal stick. The market is trying to find a way to unwind those overbought oscillators without creating too much price damage within the major indexes of the market. So far so good, but by no means does the selling have to be over nor by no means does it mean we have to have a lot more either.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Stock Market Selling Pressure Increasing in Stocks? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
U.S. Michigan Consumer Index remains Flat.
Confidence among U.S. consumers was higher than anticipated in March as companies slowed the pace of job cuts and stocks advanced.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Stock Market in Upward Trend / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Peter_Navarro
do not usually go to cash when the market's bullish trend is still in place. However, this last Friday morning, as the market opened up, I decided that it was time to take a breather. As I promised I would on the Kudlow Report the evening before, I cashed out for all of my business cycle-sensitive positions except that in CYB.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
SP500 and Dow Short-term Trading, Bearish Head and Shoulders Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The market gapped higher this morning after yesterdays heavy selling. At this time the market (metals and indexes) are trading at resistance on light volume. This tells me people are a little spooked from yesterday and just do not want to buy at these lofty prices.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Sultans of Swap: ACT III - The Getaway! / Stock-Markets / Derivatives
By: Gordon_T_Long
There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605 Trillion OTC Derivatives market or just simple coincidence, I will leave it to you shrewd reader to determine. The seven stages do however offer us an instructive theater guide to better understand these murky instruments called Interest Rate Swaps.
Friday, March 26, 2010
India Bombey Sensex Stock Market Index Forecast to Touch 50,000 by 2015 / Stock-Markets / India
By: Evalueserve
Dr. Alok Aggarwal writes: On January 8, 2008, Bombay stock market’s key index, SENSEX (Sensitive Index, which is composed of 30 companies), touched an all-time high of 20,873 and almost all analysts expected it to touch 25,000 before the end of 2008. Indeed, the market sentiment was overly buoyant and an uninterrupted rise of the Indian stock market seemed inevitable to market analysts, stockbrokers, businessmen, politicians, as well as the ordinary man. None of these analysts suspected that SENSEX would drop precipitously or that the Indian Rupee (INR), which had also appreciated to 39 INR to 1 USD, may “drop like a rock” with respect to the US Dollar (USD) and other currencies.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Indonesia, Get in on the Ground Floor of This Growing Global Profit Machine / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: I am enamored with Indonesia.
I've never been there. I've never met anyone from there. And it's not a country we hear much about. But it's the world's third-largest democracy (the current president got more votes than U.S. President Barack Obama). And it's one of the few Muslim countries - along with Turkey - that doesn't hate the United States as a matter of public policy.
Friday, March 26, 2010
How to Protect Yourself and Prosper in the Coming Bear Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: DailyWealth
Porter Stansberry writes: It's not easy being financially illiterate.
Over three years ago, I began researching and writing about the impossible debt problems faced by several of America's largest and most trusted enterprises: General Motors, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Financial Markets and Economic Outlook Conclusions 2010, When Hope Turns to Fear, Part V / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Ty_Andros
As we near the APEX of the countertrend rallies in many markets and economies, the air is full of HIGHLY-COMBUSTIBLE situations just waiting for someone to light the MATCH. The full debacle of the next leg down in developed world economies is at the doorstep. What event will act as catalyst is unknowable, and the list of candidates is mountainous. Corruption and criminality within the public sectors, crony capitalists and banksters set the stage for an explosive cocktail, are set to immolate the private sectors that still produce wealth and the public at large.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Stock Market Gap Up And Late Reversal...Topping Stick Short-Term..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
One way for a market to top short-term is to have a long run up overall over several weeks or months and then have a gap up to new highs that reverses during the day and closes below the open creating a black candle. This means an up day but on balance sellers after the gap up. In other words, exhaustion! It's never a guarantee to be the top but often signals as such and thus we have to respond to it when it prints which it clearly did today. It doesn't necessarily mean the end of the bull market. Not by any means.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
The Dow Marches On as Gold Investors Increasingly Throwing in The Towel / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity!” - George Carlin
We continue to hear all sorts of optimistic comments about the recovery in the US, and the media tends to gloss over any less than optimistic statistics. There is always an excuse! In order to justify the discrepancies we invent new slogans like the “jobless recovery” in order to validate rising unemployment in a supposedly improving economic environment. Given today’s rather pessimistic housing numbers, you might want to call this the homeless recovery as well.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Q. What Follows a Stocks Bear Market ? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
A. A Stocks Bull Market
So why have most analysts and the mainstream press been obsessed with a 'bear market rally', always looking for an imminent end on EVERY correction ? Which has meant that the vast majority of investors have so far MISSED one of the greatest bull markets in history.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
FXI FTSE Xinshua/ China 25 ETF Didn't Get The Message / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Guy_Lerner
Aside from being on the wrong side of the market with my current S&P500 index short trade, there are several other things that have me puzzled about the market's ascent. One of these conundrums is the i-Shares FTSE Xinshua/ China 25 (symbol: FXI).
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
S&P 500 Stock Market Rally Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The powerful rally in the S&P 500 continues... beyond my next target of 1175 towards 1180, using the emini chart. My pattern work argues that a new upleg began at Sunday evening's "healthcare low" at 1144.50, which if accurate indicates to me that the e-SPM still has a number of upside "zigs and zags" ahead prior to completion, which could be at 1180, or 1200 at this point. Only a decline in the e-SPM that violates 1170 will begin to compromise that pattern and the upside projection.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
What International ETFs Have To Say About Our Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: David_Grandey
While our markets hit new rally highs the bulk of the international ETFs are not following through. That MAY be telling us something.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
How to Invest in China’s Turbo-Charged Economic Recovery / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Tony_Sagami
I’ve been regularly and consistently telling you that the Chinese economy is doing much better than the mass media and Wall Street “experts” have been telling you.
It has taken them a long time, but those experts are starting to come around and believe in the economic growth miracle that is going on in China.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Despite Record Rally in U.S. Stocks, Oil, Commodities and China Will be the Long-Term Winners / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: Although U.S. stocks have made a fairly smooth transition into Year Two of what's so far been a near-record bull market, there are still many traps that can quickly ensnare a less-than-cautious investor.
Moving forward, investors need to focus on quality, take the time to understand what's really happening in Washington, and turn to such once-unconventional investments as oil, commodities and China stocks, says Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Sure Looks Like A Stock Market Top? VIX, NYSE, DOW & GOLD / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
I think many of you will find this article interesting as I show several different indicators which point to an imminent correction for stocks and precious metals.
Last Wednesday’s report I showed how the current price of the index was almost identical to the January peak from where prices dropped nearly 10%. The report was called “28 Day Sector Rotation, Commodity & Index”. We did get the first sign of toppy market last Friday with the sharp one day sell off as I expected.
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