Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Stock Market Crash Forecast- What Comes Next? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Joseph_Russo
Is “A” bottom in?
Should the masters of the universe be successful (at least for a time) in maintaining their illusory, and subtle monopolies over the masses, the best hope that exists today, (or upon a marginal retest) is for an interim (a) wave terminal marking a low prior to a much more punishing (c) wave into the 2009 period.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Worst of the Credit Crisis Over, Britain Leads the Way / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
By: John_Mauldin
The credit crisis is global. Interestingly, some of the more creative and straight forward solutions are coming from England. This week in Outside the Box I am presenting you with a very well written (even entertaining) letter from Bedlam Asset Management from London www.bedlamplc.com on their view of the crisis. It is always instructive to look at your problems from the point of view of another party, and even more some when they give you some thoughtful and cogent analysis. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Average Returns Expected for Stock Market Investors / Stock-Markets / Investing
By: Paul_J_Nolte
What else is there to add to a historic week (and not in a good way!)? The markets declined, just in the month of October a percentage roughly equal to the crash in 1987. All the various acronymed bailout packages have not done the trick and confidence among banks is very low. We keep hearing of lack of lending between banks, a lock-up in the bond and money markets as well as commercial paper markets. Industry as we know it could come to a screeching halt without the grease of loans to buy goods for inventory or to make daily/weekly cash commitments. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 13, 2008
Historic Financial Month as Events Spiraled Out of Control / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Aden_Forecast
So much has happened this month, where to begin? It's been a month to end all months with one monumental crisis following another. At times, events were moving so quickly it was hard to keep up. Many analysts we know stayed up all night, several times, as developments and markets spiraled out of control in what's being called a financial tsunami. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 13, 2008
Nasdaq Q's Completes Initial Upleg? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The pattern carved out by the Q's (Nasdaq: QQQQ) off of Friday's low at 29.38 into the 33.63 high today (so far) has the right look of a completed initial upleg -- ahead of a pullback that should re-enter this morning's up-gap between 32.30 and 31.40. Only continued strength that hurdles 34.00-34.20 will argue that the current advance has considerably more power than I am willing to ascribe to the upmove off of Friday's low.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 13, 2008
Financial Armageddon and the Last Man Standing / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Captain_Hook
As you know from yesterday's brief message I had a very bad feeling about what was coming based on the tentative title of today's piece, and sure enough Awaiting Armageddon appears to have been right on the mark in terms of outcomes in the equity markets, but certainly sooner than anybody had expected. And although I was not quite sure if precious metals would join this party concurrently or not, I did have my suspicions that were confirmed in yesterday's bloodbath, with not just the shares being dragged down due to liquidity fears, but also, the metals themselves. Why did this occur? Answer: Because in essence what we have here is a ‘deflation scare' that could quickly turn into the real McCoy if growth rates of the M's do not begin to accelerate upward immediately.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 13, 2008
Analysts who Forecast the Stock Market Crash of 2008 / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Nadeem_Walayat
We have just lived through one of the greatest stock market crashes in history, on par and in many cases exceeding October 1987. As I have iterated several times that the stock market crash would comprise of many crashette's rather than a single one day crash of the 1987 variety as 'most' of the worlds governments following 1987 have implemented circuit breakers and plunge protection teams in place so as to prevent a one day crash, and have thus stepped in during market freefall's to engineer a bounce, this has happened many times over the last 3 weeks. Still falls of as much as 10% in a single day's closing basis are still pretty significant crashette's!Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 13, 2008
S&P Stock Index Targeting 400 Bear Market Low / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Richard_Shaw
The S&P 500 has experienced price level growth in the 1990's through today (Oct 10) that is substantially greater than the price growth it experienced in the 40 years after 1950.
We've all partied in the growth rates of the last approximate 20 years, but the party may be over.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Is the Stock Market Crash of 2008 Over? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Michael_Swanson
Chaos and uncertainty rule in this market. People are scared and are in a panic. I'm sure you feel it yourself, especially if you have 401K's or other long-term investments in the stock market. Even though I've made a lot of money this year trading against the market and have been in cash for weeks now, I felt the fear myself after I tried to go long last Friday and took a 2% hit in my own portfolio for sticking my toe in the market just for a few hours. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 13, 2008
U.S. Fed Announces Unlimited Borrowing / Stock-Markets / Nationalization
By: Mike_Shedlock
This morning the Fed issued a Press Release On Unlimited Borrowing .In order to provide broad access to liquidity and funding to financial institutions, the Bank of England (BoE), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Swiss National Bank (SNB) are jointly announcing further measures to improve liquidity in short-term U.S. dollar funding markets.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Stock Market Crash Capitulation Low? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Weekly_Wizards
Our Wizards Mike Paulenoff, Harry Boxer and Jack Steiman weigh in this week on the direction of the markets.
According to Paulenoff, author of MPTrader.com : The most salient aspect of the weekly chart of the S&P 500 is that despite the fact that the index closed 60 points off of Friday's low, the index at 899.22 also closed 198 points from the week's high, which means that the net result of this week is downside continuation. Although I would not be surprised to see the SPX climb to 960-1000 sooner than later, I also think that another loop down to 839 must take place thereafter.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Financial Markets Crash Greatest Opportunity in History! / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Ty_Andros
- Monetary Tsunami Unfolding
- The Devil's Spawn
- Marxism Descending on America
- Bonds, er Bombs Away
- Stock Market Cycles by Peter Eliades and Garret Jones
Things are unfolding in rapid-fire manner and it's hard to address all the issues you must keep in mind. But the one you must keep front and center is that this is the GREATEST opportunity in history for those that keep their wits about them, and an opportunity of historic proportions is on the table. In the early 1930's Joe Kennedy turned his personal net worth from $4 million to over $100,000,000 in a matter of a few short years. YOU can do this yourself if you are NIMBLE, PREPARED and DO NOT succumb to FEAR (false evidence appearing real). You cannot be a deer in the headlights and become roadkill, as most investors are about to do. The mainstream and financial media are attempting to lead you to your demise.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Nationalisation of the Wests Banking System / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Submissions
A quick review, first.
We wrote, on 24th January 2008:“ In FTSE 100 terms, we were above 6700 in October and we went to 5300 this week – a fall of 20%. That is a crash by any other name.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Global Stock Market Sell Off and Extreme Volatility / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Regent_Markets
It could be argued that even with the wild gyrations of the past few months, many were still in denial about the state of the financial markets. Last week, fear was rife as traders, investors, and the man on the street could no longer deny the magnitude of the global sell off. Some commentators are referring to it as the great crash of 2008. Certainly, there have been bigger one day falls in percentage terms, but the scale and unyielding nature of the October's sell off of is unique.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, October 12, 2008
The Crushing Potential of Financial Derivatives / Stock-Markets / Derivatives
By: David_Haas
George Soros, one of the world's foremost investor-speculators, has said many times that he stays away from financial derivatives because “no one understands them”. In the world of finance, derivatives might be comparable to the theoretical study of linear particle acceleration in nuclear physics. Such theories appear to be “understood” mainly based on current assumptions accepted in academic circles, often with little provable working knowledge of how such currently-held theories might ultimately manifest themselves over the long run in the real world. The problem with assumptions is that they generally change…often sooner than we think.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Jim Cramer Time to Get Out of Stock Market a Buy Signal? / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
Casey's Charts: Market mayhem has the Fed off balance “The Fed has resorted to new extremes in this financial crisis by selling off and lending its good assets, US Treasuries, in exchange for toxic waste. The result: the Federal Reserve's balance sheet has been completely restructured – including innovative off-balance-sheet hocus-pocus – and looks like it's headed for exhaustion.
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Stock Market Crash Bloodbath Frustration / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
I have been away from the trading desk, and the stock market's bloodbath, during the past few days as I am on a business visit in Geneva. Just as well, but I can nevertheless associate with the frustration of the trader in the animated image (hat tip: Rob Fraim). Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, October 12, 2008
How We Called the Stock Market Crash of 2008 / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Robert_McHugh_PhD
We wrote in our September 12th, weekend newsletter, page 7, “September 29th could be a kickoff to a devastating stock market crash.” That has proven true to the precise day, the Industrials crashing 3,260 points, or 29 percent since September 29th. But, how did we know? Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Stock Market Imminent Seasonal Lows at Historic Times / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Burk
The good news is: We are living through great theatre. On October 20, 1987 there were 1174 new lows on the NYSE, about 57% of the 2076 issues that traded that day, a percentage record that held until recently. Last Friday there were 2901 new lows on the NYSE, about 88% of the 3306 issues traded. New lows have been calculated with their present methodology since January 1, 1978. At the 1987 low the S&P 500 (SPX) was 33.2% off its all time high set about 6 weeks earlier. On Friday the SPX was 42.5% off its all time high set about 1 year earlier.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Dow Jones Crash Shows $700 Billion Bailout an Exercise in Futility / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Professor_Emeritus
Troubled Ass Relief Program (Tarp)
- As the precipitous drop of the Dow Jones index of industrial stocks to the 8600 level on Thursday shows, the $700 billion bailout is an exercise in futility. The rescue effort administers one wrong medicine after another. Shunting rotten assets to the balance sheet of the central bank is not the way to go. Consolidating banks through forced mergers is not the way to go. Cutting interest rates is not the way to go. These measures make the problem worse, not better. Read full article... Read full article...