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Monday, October 29, 2007

With Market Uncertainty Comes Market Volatility / Stock-Markets / Volatility

By: Regent_Markets

Last week world stock markets made a decent stab at recovering from the previous week's rout. The strongest market was again the Nasdaq, with the new economy shrugging off the previous Friday's wobble to finish near its highs. Interest rate rumours thrust the market higher, as whispers of another 50 base point cut did the rounds. Few people wanted to be short going into what is expected to be another obliging FOMC meeting on Wednesday.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

US Housing Sinks! Your Shares Soar! / Stock-Markets / Investing

By: Money_and_Markets

The housing market is sinking further, while the oil and gold shares we've been recommending are soaring.

But are you ready?

Are you ready for the day when the average home in America has gone down for 13 months?

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Rewrite of Canadian Oil Royalty Agreements a National Disgrace and Surging JP Morgan Derivatives Book / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market

By: Roger_Conrad

As a Canadian, I would first like to voice my disgust with actions taken by my fellow countrymen [Alberta's Provincial Government] on Thursday – who saw fit to ‘rewrite' royalty agreements they had entered into with the oil industry.

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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Subprime Credit Crunch - The Market for New Homes is Dead / Stock-Markets / US Housing

By: John_Mauldin

In this Issue:
As the Subprime Turns
"The Market for New Homes is Dead"
Mortgage Pig of the Year
When the Going Get Rough, Simply Borrow More
$100 Oil and $1,000 Gold
More Birthdays, Home Again and Deadlines
As the World Turns is a popular soap opera playing on American TV. It focuses, as do most soaps, on the lives and foibles of its characters, with plenty of dramatic flair. We are watching a different type of soap opera today which we could call "As the Subprime Turns. And the world is watching. It has plenty of drama, lots of flawed characters, a plot that is hard to understand, everyone saying it was the other guys fault and the world (literally) paying for the sins of exuberance in the US. Read full article... Read full article...

 

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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Asset Backed Commercial Paper Still Shrinking As Fallout From Mortgage Crisis Spreads / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

“The ABCP market , which had helped finance the housing boom, fell $4.6 billion to $883.7 billion following last week's $11.0 billion decline, according to Federal Reserve data released on Thursday.

On the other hand, the overall U.S. commercial paper sector grew for a fourth straight week to $1.872 trillion in the week ended Oct. 23, up $6.2 billion from a week earlier, the Fed data showed.

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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Stock Market Weekly Update: Rumor Has It / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Dominick

Don't get the idea from reading this update that performing real time Elliott wave analysis is easy, or that consistently selling tops and buying bottoms is something you can learn how to do overnight. It's not, and if that's the rumor you've been hearing, it's as wrong as this week's emergency Fed meeting. But do understand that making money by finding favorable risk/reward entries and exits is exactly what we do at TTC, week in and week out, through our rigor and vigilance and determination. And, what's more, if you're willing to be patient and pay attention, we can teach you to do the same!

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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Roaring Into the Stock Market Top / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Thinking outloud: Frankly, a sharply falling dollar coupled with sharply rising (historic) oil prices amidst credit and housing crises would not be considered my ideal background for a roaring bull market in equities.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Sub-Prime Mortgage Collapse Crisis Over? - Part 1 / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: Adrian_Ash

"...If you can't spot the patsy then it might just be you - or your retirement-fund manager, money-market fund, local government trustees or mutual fund..."

ON AUGUST 8th THIS YEAR , just one day before the sudden and savage "credit crunch" that Alan Greenspan - former head of the US Federal Reserve - now says was "an accident waiting to happen", the Investment Council of Oregon State voted to change the way it invests public retirement funds.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

New Upleg for the Ultrashort S&P / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Mike_Paulenoff

My sense in this crazy volatile market is that the ProShares UltraShort S&P ETF (AMEX: SDS) correction from Monday's high at 53.60 likely ended earlier today at 51.07, which happens also to coincide with a "healthy" pullback of about 40% of the entire advance from the 10/11 low at 47.50 to the 10/22 high at 53.60. The structure of the correction, its magnitude, and the upside pivot from 51.07 to 52.00 argue strongly that the SDS has started a new upleg that should climb above 53.60 on the way to 54.75-55.25 next.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Labor Department Institutionalizes Speculation / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Tim_Iacono

One day, the "asset prices must always be pushed higher" approach toward preventing the U.S. economy from succumbing to the gravitational pull of deflation will run its course and the " rentier culture " will beat a hasty retreat back to wherever it is they came, but after the decision the other day by the Labor Department to require new employees to invest in stocks if they make no other choice during what is normally a very confusing first day at their new job, well, the hasty retreat has been pushed back a little bit.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Major Turning Point Occurring Now! / Stock-Markets / Inflation

By: Money_and_Markets

Larry Edelson writes: Years from now, we'll look back at this current period in time as a major turning point … when the fires of global inflation were ignited anew … when the world began to realize the dollar was worth no more than the paper it was printed on … and when central bankers became truly known as emperors with no clothes.

You're already seeing it begin, with the U.S. dollar plunging to all-time record lows against nearly all the world's major currencies, and even against dozens of third-world currencies.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

How and Why the Banking Index is Dragging Down the S&P, Plus China Shanghai Index Update / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Marty_Chenard

The S&P 500 is a key index that is watched by the Institutional Investors.  Why?  Because, it is the best measure of the economy with its large companies that cover a nicely balanced, diverse group of market Sectors.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Financial Market Myths Exposed! Three FREE Videos / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets

By: EWI

Elliott Wave International's Market Myths Exposed 3-part video series turns conventional wisdom about the financial markets on its head, allowing you to think independently of the mainstream and call your own shots regarding portfolio management

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Semiconductor Stocks Continue to Plummet / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The Semiconductor HLDRs ETF (AMEX: SMH) continues to get clobbered. Yesterday Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) was the culprit. Today, components Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), and Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) all are under pressure...

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The Sham US Stocks Bull Market / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Clive_Maund

When the S&P500 index broke to new highs at the end of May and again in recent weeks there was a great media fanfare. In this brief article, which is actually directed at that select band of readers who are more interested in reality than illusion, we are going to examine this ?remarkable accomplishment? to see just how remarkable it really was.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Housing Market Meltdown and the Structured Investment Vehicles Frothy Rescue Plan / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: Paul_Petillo

Who can pretend to know everything about the housing meltdown? The complicated intricacies of this backroom dealing seem to unfold everyday, baffling even the savviest of market watchers. Perhaps, as the financial titans look for ways of covering their tracks, hiding their losses and hoping that, by the time this incident completely reveals just how badly these investors/lenders/borrowers acted, we will have been too confused to point fingers at any one person.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

20th Anniversary of 87 Stock Market Crash - Are we revisiting the past? / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets

By: Regent_Markets

Last week the 20 year anniversary of the 1987 crash passed with a significantly negative close for all major stock markets.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

What to do when the U.S. Dollar Falls? Buy Foreign Stocks / Stock-Markets / US Dollar

By: Donald_W_Dony

As the U.S. dollar continues its downward plunge below $0.80, the question arises as to stock selection. Where are the best markets to invest in with a falling currency? The answer appears to be in Chart 1; Foreign stocks.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Paulson's $100 billion “Bankers Bankruptcy Fund” and the G-7 Subprime Fiasco / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: Mike_Whitney

Friday's bloodbath on Wall Street proved that the troubles in the credit markets have not been relieved by the Fed's rate cuts. The Dow Jones slipped 367 points on the 20th anniversary of Black Monday, the stock market's biggest one-day loss in history. Since Friday, Asian markets have plunged; stocks are down sharply in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea. The global sell-off is a reaction to ongoing problems in the subprime market and deeper-rooted systemic issues related to the US's structured-debt model.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

A Subprime Credit Crunch Outlook for the Global Economy / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch

By: John_Mauldin

Stephen Roach is one of my favorite analysts. However, since he moved to Asia to take up new responsibilities, he has not written as much. Thus I was delighted to receive what will be today's Outside the Box last week. Roach argues that the US is getting ready for a subprime economy and the world, and in particular Asia, will also slow as a result. This is a particularly sobering essay, but one that should be read.

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