Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Weakening U.S. Dollar and Rising Urban Unemployment / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Global_Research

Bob Chapman writes: On Wednesday the Treasury’s five-year auction yield was 2.69% with 21.15% allotted at the high and bid to cover was 1.92 to 1. The average of the past ten auctions has been 2.20%. Indirect, central bank participation was 35.7% versus an average of 36.8%. Overall that was weak demand. Do not forget the Treasury has to raise $2 trillion by 9/30/09.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

The Recession is Over, What to Do Now / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010

By: Q1_Publishing

One of the most watched indicators just flashed the “sell” signal…

What are you going to do?

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Manipulated Government GDP Statistics Report is Just Plain Wrong / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Dr_Martenson

The GDP report was released Friday (7/31/09) and it was a compendium of incomprehensible and illogical numbers and, worse, it is just plain wrong.

Of course, since so much rides on an accurate assessment of our true economic state of affairs it behooves us to make sense of it as best we can understanding that the GDP report is less than perfect and riddled with difficult-to-rationalize statistical manipulations and quirky additions.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Stock Markets Best Month for 20 Years / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: NewsLetter

Dear Reader

The stock markets close July with many widely tracked indices experiencing their best performance for the month of July for more than 20 years. Many commentators are writing "where are the investors?", as few have ridden the rally, which is the whole point of a stocks stealth bull market as most investors smarting from the bear market remain paralysed by fear of the preceding bear market that either miss or in fact consistently bet against, convinced by a stream of statistics as to why this rally should imminently terminate, no matter that the so called 'bear market rally" has risen some 40% and for asian markets more than 100% since the March lows.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Has Stock Market Volatility Ended Or Is It About To Resume? / Stock-Markets / Volatility

By: Sy_Harding

Thanks to the rally of the last three weeks, which saw the S&P 500 quickly gain 12.1%, the market, which was down for the year just three weeks ago, is now up, the Dow and S&P 500 up almost 10% for the year.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Financial Stocks ETF XLF Needs to Break Its Down Trendline / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The big picture of the Financial Select Sector ETF (XLF) shows that the recovery thus far has not yet challenged the dominant bear market down trendline, which cuts across the price axis at approximately 14.30 as we speak. Should the XLF seek out a test of its major down trendline in the next two weeks, the price structure will have to climb another 10%. Of course, to do that the index will have to climb above its prior recovery rally peak at 13.05, which should trigger acceleration towards the test of the 2 year down trendline. If the upmove exceeds the trendline at 14.30, my work will trigger higher intermediate term swing targets at 15.30 and then 18.00.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Urgent Financial and Economic Crisis Investment Strategy Update / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010

By: Money_and_Markets

Hello — this is Martin Weiss with an important strategy update.

It’s only fair to acknowledge that the economic depression I foresaw in my book and in my reports is unfolding more slowly than I had expected.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Mark Mobius Ready to Invest up to $10 Billion in Russia / Stock-Markets / Russia

By: Pravda

USA’s Templeton is ready to invest in Russia 20 percent of the portfolio, which is to be increased to $50 billion during the forthcoming two years, the head of Templeton Asset Management, Mark Mobius said.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Investor Risk Appetite Retuns As The Stocks Bears Run Scared / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

The bear slaughter continues apace. Stocks surged Thursday, hitting their highest levels in nearly 9 months, as investors eyed the latest batch of “better-than-expected” (yawn) profits and guidance, a weaker Dollar, a decent 7 year US Treasury bond auction, a report that suggested the labor market is starting to stabilize and soothing words from China that they would refill the punch bowl.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Stock Market Manages to Hold Gains After Strong Opening Gap / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Harry_Boxer

We had another up-day, and the indices started with a big rally that broke key multiple session consolidation ranges and went to new 3-week & 2009 rally highs.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Stock Markets Remain Strong / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Frederic_Simons

Stock markets have experienced a very short consolidation phase over the last two days, without giving back much ground. Overnight, the Nasdaq future has even moved to new highs. What we have written in our last comments to the stock market remains true, as we are still expecting stocks to move higher in the next days and perhaps weeks to come:

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Stock Market Holds Up Well Despite The Newsflow / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

Yesterday was strange with bad news coming thick and fast, but yet again stocks proved remarkably resilient closing with only a mild red hue. Crude oil dropped below $64 barrel (after a jump in inventories) which should have pressured producers more. Investors frowned upon the terms Yahoo finally managed to extract from Microsoft.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Wall Street is Front-Running Your Stock Orders / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Graham_Summers

Where’s the volume?

Bull markets require volume, lots of it, and breadth: for the market to be moving across multiple sectors. This latest rally (which has the bulls braying that a new bull market is here) has neither.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Economic Crisis Not Over but Stock Market Rally Can Last A Few More Quarters / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Money_and_Markets

Claus Vogt writes: You might be familiar with this common example of probability theory: The exercise of drawing colored marbles from a container.

Half of the marbles are white, the other half are black. You remove one marble, write down the color, and put the marble back in the container. Then repeat the process, again and again.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

U.S. Dollar May Mount Turnaround if Equities Sell-Off / Stock-Markets / Futures Trading

By: BrewerFuturesGroup

The Dollar is trading weaker overnight as investors believe the U.S. economy is on the road to recovery. Traders are seeking higher risk currencies although this demand is not spreading to the equity markets. It will be interesting to see if a sharp break in equities will flip the currency markets with the Dollar coming out on top by the close.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Chinese Whispers A Worry For Stocks / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

The two potential market moving economic catalysts Tuesday pointed in opposite directions, with the Case Shiller survey suggesting that the pace in price declines in U.S. real estate is slowing, but with the consumer confidence number slipping to 46.3 (from 49.3 in June), the market decided to call it a draw stocks meandered into the close broadly flat.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Are Better than Expected Corporate Earnings Results Good? / Stock-Markets / Corporate Earnings

By: Paul_J_Nolte

When you expect a failing grade, but just past that math class, is that “better than expected” necessarily good? Evidently on Wall Street, limping over the very low “expectations” hurdle has been enough to push stocks up and over to be solidly higher for the year. In the rear view mirror are now the market lows for this cycle, the worst economic collapse in a few generations and the broken banking system.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Mark-to-Market Accounting Scapegoat for the Financial Crash / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009

By: LewRockwell

Betsy Hansen writes: If you are a dedicated reader of the financial papers you may have fallen for the line that mark-to-market accounting rules are a major contributor to the financial crisis. I caution you to examine that argument with a great deal of skepticism. Mark-to-market accounting rules did make things worse in the financial markets, but this ill-conceived rule was not the primary cause of the crisis.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Constructive Pattern for Nasdaq Q's / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

As tenuous as the SPY and e-SPU patterns might appear so far today, let’s notice that the PowerShares QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQQ) has carved out a symmetrical triangle or coil since last Thursday’s peak at 39.49, which is a much more constructive pattern than the one carved out by the S&P indices.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

U.S. Dollar Stabilization and the Stock / Gold Ratio / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Ashraf_Laidi

Dollar weakness has been excessive...at least for now..

The overnight wave of dollar selling was mostly led by a fresh wave of buying in commodity currencies (rather than only rising equities) courtesy of +$70 in crude prices and hawkish comments from the Reserve Bank of Australia raising the possibility of rate hikes before a peak in the unemployment rate. Markets were already expecting the RBA to raise rates by 25 bps by year-end.