Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Stock Markets Hit by Barrage of Bleak Economic and Corporate Data / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
Investor sentiment around the globe was negatively impacted during 2009's second full week of trading as a barrage of bleak economic and corporate news offered more confirmation of a deepening recession, bringing risk aversion to center stage.
The US dollar and government bonds (excluding emerging markets and countries on the periphery of the Eurozone) gained, but global equities and commodities were on the defensive as nervous investors tried to gauge the likely damage of the economic malaise.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Airline Sector Stocks: The Death of a Bear Market / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Daniel_Smolski
Anyone who has recently flown can probably attest to the feeling of uneasiness, loss of control and an overall uncomfortable feeling that grips one, as they step into an airport and submit themselves to the grueling process of check-in and boarding. The deregulation of the airline sector in the late 1970s has brought prices down so greatly, that it flying is now available to the masses. This has resulted in airports growing to mammoth-sized structures resembling small cities. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Financial Black Holes Destroying Capital / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Mike Larson writes: When I was a kid, black holes fascinated me. The idea that you could have an area of space so massive … so dense … that it could suck in and absorb ANYTHING that got too close — even light — seemed ludicrous. Like pure science fiction. But they're real.
These days, black holes aren't so fascinating. But unfortunately, they are very, very real. And they keep popping up throughout the financial sector …
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Trigger Happy Stock Market Trading / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Joseph_Russo
The November Low - In direct contrast to our previous piece exploring the current onset of Super-Cycle Wave IV , we will now take a closer look at the November low, and review the price action since then relative to speculative trading strategies. The small chart plots three months of daily closes for the Dow Jones Industrials. It shows that the move up toward the January high was clearly corrective.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Stock Market Bulls Hold The Line, For Now / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Kingsley_Anderson
It looks like the other shoe dropped this week. Just when everyone thought that we may have heard the last of the financial sector's woes, more bad news hit the wires. The question is how many more shoes are left? Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Obama Will Fail to Lift Stock Markets Next Week / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Burk
The good news is: Money supply is growing at an extreme rate and that should help the equities market.
Short Term There is an indicator developed by Joseph Granville called Net Field Trend (NFT). NFT is the number of issues in an index with a negative field trend subtracted from those in a positive field trend. The field trend is determined by looking at On Balance Volume (OBV) of each issue. OBV is a running total of volume of an issue added to the total on up days and subtracted from the total on down days.
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Deflationary Pressures Impact on Stocks, Gold and Commodities / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Consumer prices going down -The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) decreased 1.0 percent in December, before seasonal adjustment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The December level of 210.228 (1982-84=100) was 0.1 percent higher than in December 2007. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 16, 2009
John Lee's Forecasts On Gold And Financial Markets For 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: John_Lee
In 2008 we saw some of the most dramatic financial events in a century:
* $trillions of subprime mortgage implo sion, which bankrupted the entire US banking system .
* Lehman's fallout with entangling positions in equities, futures, real estate, and derivatives in the $hundreds of billions . The magnitude dwarfed LTCM.
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Farrell's Rule #2 U.S. Stocks Won't Bottom Before 2011, 25% Below End 2008 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Andrew_Butter
Farrell's Rule # 2: "Excesses of stock prices above the long-term average are invariably followed by excesses of an equal magnitude below".
So what is the long-term average?
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Obama Stimulus Boom for Canadian Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Investors are already positioning themselves in U.S. stocks to make the most of the boom fueled by Obama's stimulus plan. While many of these picks could rally nicely as our government throws hundreds of billions at our economic problems, they're not outside the box. Or maybe I should say “outside the borders.” Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Post Stock Market Panic Rallies / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Zeal_LLC
2008, of course, was the worst year for the stock markets in memory. We've never seen anything like it in our lifetimes. The Great Depression of the 1930s was worse, but in order to have been old enough to care about the stock markets back then a trader would have to be around 95 years old today. For all but that elderly infinitesimal fraction of today's traders, 2008 was utterly unprecedented. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Stock, Commodities, Futures and Forex Markets Analysis 16th January 2009 / Stock-Markets / Futures Trading
By: INO
The March NASDAQ 100 was higher overnight as it extends Thursday's short covering rally. Stochastics and the RSI remain neutral to bearish signaling that sideways to lower prices are still possible near-term. If March extends this week's decline, the reaction low crossing at 1097.00 is the next downside target. Closes above the 10-day moving average crossing at 1219.90 would confirm that a short-term low has been posted. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Stock, Commodities and Real Estate Asset Price Drivers 2009-2010 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Chris_Ciovacco
In a January 7, 2009 article, 2009: Major Post Asset Deflation Themes , we outlined the major investment themes for 2009. This article will expand on the primary drivers of asset prices and secular investment trends. These topics can help investors successfully manage their portfolio during the transition from current concerns about deflation to future concerns about inflation.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Tech Stocks Trump Banks But Possible Trouble Ahead / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
A strong performance from Intel, Amazon and Blackberry maker Motion masked what was another very bleak day for banking stocks with Citigroup -15.5% to below $4 and BoA - 20% to levels not seen since 1991. With Citi trading well below the key $5 trigger point, many fund managers will be obliged to dump the stock at month end rebalancing as they are precluded from holding stocks who have cheapened that much. Déjà vu; recall the Lehman death-watch?! For BoA the wider market is fretting that further taxpayer capital injections mean further dilution and more write offs forcing other banks to follow suit. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 16, 2009
How Financial Markets Deregulation Picked Our Pockets / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: “I have a funny feeling that we're not in Kansas, anymore.” Like Dorothy's sublime observation of the surreal in “The Wizard of Oz,” our taking stock of where we are in the vortex of this economic tornado leads us to the same scary observation.
It also forces us to ask some tough questions – questions for which there may be no simple answers. Key among them:
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Stock Market Volatile Turnaround Session / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had a volatile session, plunging at the opening and reaching new 6-7 day pullback lows in the morning. They bounced in what looked like bear-flag fashion, and sure enough did roll over, with the S&P 500 taking out the lows, but the NDX did not at that point. That set up a positive divergence, resulting in a very sharp rally that took the NDX from 1143 to 1193, about a 50-point rally inside of the next couple hours. The S&P 500 went from 817 to 851.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Stock and Currency Markets Risk Aversion Ahead of Obama Inauguration / Stock-Markets / Volatility
By: Ashraf_Laidi
Prolonged risk aversion is expected to ensue until Tuesdays presidential inauguration brings in a temporary feel good rally. Having made their third failed attempt to rise more than 25% since the intensification of the crisis, equities, VIX and the yen are expected to further move in the direction of prolonged reduction in risk appetite (equities negative, yen positive, VIX positive). I warned in the Jan 2 nd piece Risk Appetite Pushes the Envelope that the trio of risk appetite will be constrained near 940 for the S&P500, $850 for gold (having failed to break its 8-week cycle gains) and 92.50 yen in USDJPY. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Stock Markets Could Rise a Wall of Terror! / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
Just How Much Money is Out There? - There's no end to the talk of how much cash is sitting on the sidelines just raring to be put to good investment use. We hear of mutual funds net cash positions at all time highs; we hear of investors turning to – of all things – bank accounts and CDs to park their cash (say it isn't so!); we hear of foreign investors loading up on treasuries as a safe haven bet; and we wonder just how much money really is out there. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wall Street Corruption & Despair Continue / Stock-Markets / Scams
By: David_Vaughn
Can you believe a 50 billion dollar ponzi scheme?
Seems a lot of folks prized their friendship with Bernard Madoff. He must have been “Uncle Bernie” to the scores of wealthy investors who trusted him and loved those guaranteed 10 to 12% investment returns. A real picture here of what our economy has evolved into these past 20 years. Many simply lost their fortunes and others lost their lives.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Stock, Commodities, Futures and Forex Markets Analysis 15th January 2009 / Stock-Markets / Futures Trading
By: INO
The March NASDAQ 100 was lower in overnight trading as it extends this week's decline and is below support marked by the reaction low crossing at 1156.25. Stochastics and the RSI are bearish signaling that sideways to lower prices are possible near-term. If March extends this week's decline, the reaction low crossing at 1097.00 is the next downside target. Closes above the 10-day moving average crossing at 1222.40 would confirm that a short-term low has been posted. Read full article... Read full article...