Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Bullish and Bearish Stock Market Plays for the 2009 Hurricane Season / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Uncommon_Wisdom

Sean Brodrick writes: Whether the 2009 hurricane season turns out to be a snoozer or a bruiser, I have four picks for you — two bullish, two bearish — to play this summer’s potentially wild weather.

The major hurricane forecasters have made their predictions, and it’s for a “moderate” hurricane season. Cooler seas off the coast of Africa and a prediction of a weak El Nino get the credit for the calmer forecast.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Financials XLF ETF Coiled Pattern About to Break in Which Direction? / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

I scan the various sector charts to see if any of them provide clues about the eventual directional breakout of the major equity market ETFs from "The May Coil" pattern.  One “coiling” market is the Financial Select SPDR ETF (NYSE:  XLF), which has been traversing a contracting range since its high on May 7 at 13.15.  This pattern reflects a classic series of lower highs juxtaposed against higher lows, which when perched atop a major upmove usually breaks out to the upside within the profile of a bull flag continuation pattern. 

Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Great Bond Market Massacre Spills Over into Stocks / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

As I’ve written in this column before, the Fed was always playing a dangerous game of chicken with the market, with its half hearted attempts at Quantitative Easing. To date Quantitative Easing has failed miserably and the rise up in 10 year bond yields to 3.72% from 2.5% in March, sending mortgage rates soaring has completely neutered the Fed.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Why the S&P 500 Stock Market Index Could Crash Another 50% / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Graham_Summers

With the words “green shoots” and “bull market” getting more and more coverage in the mainstream financial press, it’s worth considering if this current market/ economy is actually improving. Personally I don’t know what data the folks at CNBC are looking at. Because to me, all signs point to further wealth destruction and great economic contraction to come in the months ahead.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Banking Sector Index BKX at Critical Juncture / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Marty_Chenard

Institutional Investors have one special index that they look to when trying to measure the strength of the economy.

What's the Index and why do they favor it?

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Can North Korean Nukes Rattle Global Stock & Financial Markets? / Stock-Markets / North Korea

By: Gary_Dorsch

News that North Korea’s mercurial leader Kim Jong Il authorized the detonation of a nuclear bomb on May 25^th, comparable to those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, barely caused a ripple in the global financial markets. Japanese and South Korean stocks initially fell in a knee-jerk reaction, but soon recouped most of their losses, as traders shrugged off the nuclear fallout, - figuring it was just a harmless display of Kim Jong Il’s temper tantrums that erupts once every few years.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Ending Today's Financial & Economic Crisis Simply and Easily, in America and Globally / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009

By: Stephen_Lendman

Some of the best ideas are often the simplest. When applied to the global economic crisis, the solution is easier than imagined. What's hard, in fact a Gordian Knot, is the political will to embrace it. But even matters that great can be solved by a bold stoke, and according to legend, Alexander the Great's "Alexandrian solution" was achieved with one stroke of his sword, cutting the Knot in half. Applied to the global economic crisis, it means addressing it with effective policies, not ones wrecking America and other troubled nations worldwide.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Dow Jones Stock Index Soars from 8,200 to 10,000 in a Single Day! India Did! / Stock-Markets / India

By: Uncommon_Wisdom

Tony Sagami writes: How would you react if the Dow Jones jumped from about 8,200 to 10,000 in a single day?

That type of one-day moon shot happened to the Indian stock market last week. The Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark Sensex vaulted 2,110.79 points, or 17.3 percent, to 14,284.21 May 18.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Interest Rate Flashing Strong Stock Market Sell Signals / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Money_and_Markets

Claus Vogt writes: One of the first lessons I learned in analyzing and forecasting the direction of the stock market was the extreme importance of interest rates. That’s because holding a stock gives you the right to part of a company’s future cash flow. And to determine the value of that cash flow back to today’s value, you need an accurate interest rate gauge.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Stock Market Feeling Confident on Economic Prospects / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

An upside surprise in the US consumer confidence number (to it’s best level in 8 months) trumped a record drop in the Case-Shiller home price survey report (down 19.1% in Q1 2009, with nationwide US home prices now back at 2003 levels).

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Financial Markets and Economic Crash, the Next Leg Down Will be Worse / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Mike_Whitney

Collapsing home prices and credit markets continue to put downward pressure on consumer spending, forcing the Federal Reserve to take even more radical action to revive the economy. Last week, Fed chief Ben Bernanke raised the prospect of further monetizing the debt by purchasing more than the $1.75 trillion of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) already committed. The announcement sent shock-waves through the currency markets where skittish traders have joined doomsayers in predicting tough times ahead for the dollar. Foreign central banks have been gobbling up US debt at an impressive pace, adding another $60 billion in the last three weeks alone. That's more than enough to cover the current account deficit and put the greenback on solid ground for the time-being. But with fiscal deficits ballooning to $3 trillion in the next year alone, dwindling foreign investment won't be enough to keep the dollar afloat. Bernanke will be forced to either raise interest rates or let the dollar fall hard.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Investment Opportunities in Asia Abound / Stock-Markets / Asian Economies

By: Frank_Holmes

I spent last week in Asia at the Corporate Access Forum in Singapore sponsored by CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, which produces some of the most detailed and insightful investment research available.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Nasdaq Q's Bullish Congestion or Near-Term Top? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQQ) provide us with a very interesting price picture.  What type of pattern is developing off of the May 7 high at 35.39 – a sideways bullish congestion area OR a near-term top?  We don’t know just yet, but the morning’s inability to break below 33.00-32.96 support, followed by a powerful upside reversal, certainly suggests that the bulls are back in control and are pushing the Q’s towards a test of critical near-term resistance between 35.00 and 35.40, which if hurdled should trigger upside continuation towards 36.20/50 thereafter. 

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

S&P 500 Index 17 Week Trading Cycle / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis

By: INO

Here's a key video to look at this week. I was just looking at the S&P 500 and I noticed a very pronounced cycle in this market that I want to share with you.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Weak Start to European Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / European Stock Markets

By: PaddyPowerTrader

Stock markets remained on the defensive overnight, with the Dax yesterday closing at 4918 while the Nikkei was last down 69 at 9277. International tensions remain elevated in the wake of the nuclear test by North Korea with wires reporting there could be further missile tests by the country this week. There are also fears that shares in the Stoxx 600 may have gotten well ahead of themselves, with a P/E ratio of 24 (a 5 year high) versus the cycle low of 8.3 in Nov 2008.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Stocks, Gold, Silver and Crude Oil Inter Market Analysis & Forecasts / Stock-Markets / Forecasts & Technical Analysis

By: Chris_Vermeulen

After a 10 week rally traders and investors are starting to think twice about dumping money into stocks. Since March, we have seen the equities market rally 30% and now everyone is starting to think prices are a little top heavy.

So what do we do now if the market is possibly forming an intermediate (6-10 week) correction?

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Global Financials Continue to Stabilize / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks

By: Donald_W_Dony

Models are indicating that the global financial sector continues to form a base and stabilize. As this industry group is a leading indicator to the broader Dow Jones World Stock Index, it suggests that a bottom for the DJWSI is close. Limited downward pressure can be anticipated in June as the iShares S&P Global Financial ETF (IXG) nears the next expected low in late June.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

IMF Praises Canada's Stable Banking and Financial System / Stock-Markets / Canada

By: Pravda

The IMF Country Report for Canada published Friday offers some unique perspectives on the reasons for the stability of Canada’s financial system since the credit crunch began. There have no been no failures of financial institutions, no large scale bailout of banks and the financial system did not undergo severe systemic pressures like it did in the U.S. and UK. Let's review some of the key points from this report.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Shekels on U.S. Dollars, Currency & Financial Markets Forecasts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Boris_Chikvashvili

To be ANTI-SOPITALIST means to stand with those who do not approve of the unproductive parts of society getting rich on the backs of the-productive people. There is only one reason prices should be rising, some people do not work their fair share and make it more expensive for others to have the necessities of life that is what printing money does. So, how exactly do the SOPITALISTS get rich? They must do something to manipulate things to their benefit and everyone else's detriment. Yes they do. They use their connections and money to stand first in the cycle of money that government recycles endlessly.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Stock Market Rally Over, Prepare for New Bear Market Lows / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Clive_Maund

Fundamentally the rally in the broad stockmarket from early in March is viewed as being the result of a combination of media hype, wishful thinking and short covering, but there may be more to it than that - it would appear that a sizeable proportion of the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) funds not thus far deployed have been used to drive up the stockmarkets in order to create a positive environment for the banks to issue secondary shares and thus raise equity. While this is perfectly understandable, it also means that once the banks have finished selling this stock to the public, or the market is simply exhausted by being soaked in this way, it is likely to go into reverse in a big way.