Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Stock Market Correction or New Bear Market? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Money_Morning

Jon D. Markman writes: With U.S. stocks down about 5% from their 2009-2010 rally peak, investors basically want to know one thing: Is this just a correction, or are they looking at a potentially long bear market?

That's no small question. U.S. stocks could be experiencing one of three scenarios at present. They could be:

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Inflation Mega-Trend Ebook Download, Forecasts For Economy, Stocks, Gold, Emerging Markets... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The worlds economies swim in an ocean of inflation that is punctuated by occasional ripples of deflation which is illustrated by the perpetual upward curve of general prices as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Inflation in the long-run impacts on virtually all commodities and asset prices. The Inflation Mega-Trend ebook contains in-depth analysis for the aim of generating accurate forecast trends for Inflation, Interest rates and the Economy for 2010 and beyond, the implications of which have been further applied towards generating key financial market and investment trend projections. DOWNLOAD NOW -FREE - (Only requirement a valid email address).

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Using Elliott Wave Theory to Interpret Stock Market Price Action / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory

By: EWI

Same Day. Same Event. Same Market. Different Story!
"There is no group more subjective than conventional analysts." -- Robert Prechter. February 23, 2010
By Vadim Pokhlebkin

Elliott wavers sometimes hear the criticism that patterns in market charts can be "open to interpretation." For example, what looks like a finished 1-2-3 correction to one analyst, another analyst may interpret as 1-2-3 of a developing impulse, with waves 4 and 5 on the way.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Marc Faber Outlook for the Stock Market and Gold for 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Submissions

Despite risk of a stimulus driven crack-up boom, however Marc is bearish on the stock market, but does not think that they will collapse because the Fed will again massively monetize and support equity prices.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Stocks Pullback From Highs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

Becalmed US equities closed little changed overnight, with modest gains in financials offset by modest losses in the energy sector. In truth there has been little news for the market to trade off. On the negative side of the ledger, the Dallas Fed manufacturing index looked more like its NY Fed counterpart than the upbeat Philly Fed survey released last Thursday. Of particular note was the very sharp pull-back reported in new orders. By contrast the Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index rose in January with the three-month average now at its highest level since July 2007. This index is now back at levels that would typically point to an economy growing at a trend-like rate of growth.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Stock Market Last-Hour Rollover Dampens Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices started off on a slightly weak note, but most of the stocks we follow and traded today had very good sessions.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

A Five-Step Guide to Financial Debt Crisis Contagion / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis

By: John_Mauldin

I am in Tampa meeting with Raymond James Chief Investment Officer Jeff Saut, who graciously took us out on his boat yesterday in what I am told was the first good weather Florida has had in months. I need to get out like that more. It was good to take a weekend away with no computer. But I am back at it today, with your Outside the Box arriving on schedule.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Stock Market Consolidating... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

It's important for markets to consolidate a strong move whether that move was higher or lower. When you get a quick move up such as we had, you get some very overbought short-term 60-minute oscillators. These short-term charts tend to being to unwind their oscillators fairly quickly once they get oversold or overbought. This last move up caused some very elevated MACD's, stochastics and RSI's. The inevitable move lower had to come and today we saw a drop of that take place late in the day. Nothing much to talk about although it should sell a bit more. Unwinding can take place with more of a lateral move.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Ignore the Illusion of Economic Spring, Stock Market Crash This Year / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: The_Gold_Report

Never mind that fruit trees are blossoming all over the Northern Hemisphere. It doesn't matter that Punxsutawney Phil of Pennsylvania saw his shadow on February 2. We're in for a lot more of a long, harsh Winter—a real whopper in terms of the Kondratieff cycle that the Longwave Group's Ian Gordon has become expert at analyzing and interpreting. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Ian pulls no punches about the dreadful times ahead as economies wring out decade's worth of accumulated debt. The only gleams shining through in his dreary forecast: ample opportunities in precious metals equities.

Monday, February 22, 2010

What Chinese Malls Tell Us about the Economic Reality / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: EWI

Investor expectations are decidely bullish right now, and many people expect an economic turnaround this year. What do the underlying economic conditions suggest? The Chinese mall "The Place" demonstrates the contrast between investor hope and economic reality.

Monday, February 22, 2010

The Shanghai-SPX Relationship and Charts of the Week / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The first chart I will explore today is the relationship between gold and oil and the dollar. The daily chart of spot gold versus spot euro/dollar shows a normal relationship, at least at first glance, with gold and the euro, as priced in dollars, moving in the same direction.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Where’s the Investing “Big Money” Headed Now? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Money_Morning

Jon D. Markman writes: The remarkable week that just concluded actually began on February 12, which was two Fridays ago. Stocks plunged in the opening minutes of trading that morning as investors' faith in the global economic recovery was shaken. In China, policymakers again tightened monetary policy in a fight against rapid credit growth and fast rising asset prices. In Europe, which is plagued by concerns over the bailout of deeply indebted Greece, a report showed economic growth slowing dramatically. 

Monday, February 22, 2010

Falling Debt Dynamite Dominoes, The Coming Financial Catastrophe Part2 / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010

By: Andrew_G_Marshall

Continued From Part 1

The Collapse of Iceland - On October 9th, 2008, the government of Iceland took control of the nation’s largest bank, nationalizing it, and halted trading on the Icelandic stock market. Within a single week, “the vast majority of Iceland's once-proud banking sector has been nationalized.” In early October, it was reported that:

Monday, February 22, 2010

Falling Debt Dynamite Dominoes, The Coming Financial Catastrophe / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010

By: Andrew_G_Marshall

Understanding the Nature of the Global Economic Crisis - The people have been lulled into a false sense of safety under the rouse of a perceived “economic recovery.” Unfortunately, what the majority of people think does not make it so, especially when the people making the key decisions think and act to the contrary. The sovereign debt crises that have been unfolding in the past couple years and more recently in Greece, are canaries in the coal mine for the rest of Western “civilization.” The crisis threatens to spread to Spain, Portugal and Ireland; like dominoes, one country after another will collapse into a debt and currency crisis, all the way to America.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Stock Market Heading for a Period of Consolidation / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Angelo_Campione

General Commentary: The system for the SPY is on a Buy signal 25%

The market has enjoyed a great rally over the last couple weeks, retracing to the 61.8% Fibonacci level (that's over 6% in 2 weeks). There's a very good chance we'll see a pullback from here so that the market can digest these gains.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Stock Market 600 Point Crash.... Up / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Headline grabbing title?

The U.S. Fed raised the discount rate for overnight funding from 0.5% to 0.75% last Thursday evening which sent the financial blogosphere into a frenzy of anticipation of a sharp drop in stock prices the following day.... The Dow closed UP 9 points.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Stock Market Remains in a Correction / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Peter_Navarro

The market action in the United States from last week provided some small encouragement that the stock market may be finding a new floor. That said, there remains significant cross currents buffeting this market which suggests continued caution.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Stock Market Chops Shaky Participants into Pieces / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Piazzi

On Thursday market drifts sideways most of the day. It then finds flashes of bids for a ramp up

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Money Flow Implications of 2011 U.S. Investor Tax Rates / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010

By: Richard_Shaw

To the extent that federal tax rates drive investor behaviors and money flows, and to the extent that 2011 federal tax rates simply revert to prior rates under “sunset” provisions; 2011 would be a year in which municipal bonds rise in relative appeal versus other debt instruments, and equity income declines in relative appeal versus stock capital gains.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Stock Market Handles Discount Rate Hike by Fed... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

On Thursday evening, just after the market closed, the market took a shot to the jaw out of left field; although you can't argue it was hinted at, when fed Bernanke raised the discount rate to banks to 0.75% from 0.50%. The market, one would think, does not want to see lending made more difficult by making lending from bank to bank more difficult. Yes, it was only 0.25% worth of BP, but a start higher nonetheless at a time when the economy is trying so hard to heal some very deep wounds. Anything that hurts money flow must be considered a negative and once the new hit it hit fairly hard. The Dow futures almost immediately sank nearly 100 points. Not pretty with stocks taking a real shot after hours led my commodity and financial stocks.