Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, July 27, 2007
Flash Alert: Wall Street Financial Meltdown! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Martin Weiss writes: Wall Street is suffering a meltdown, and in a moment I'll tell you what to do about it.
The big picture: Anyone who thinks the meltdown is limited to a decline in stock prices should wake up and smell the coffee:
- The big money that Wall Street was pouring into mortgages is drying up …
- The big equity deals that were pouring still more money into the economy are bombing …
- The U.S. economy, hooked on all that Wall Street money like a dope addict, is about to suffer one heck of a hangover …
- The dollar is continuing to plunge virtually nonstop, and …
- The worst is yet to come! But …
Friday, July 27, 2007
What's Behind the Dow's Swan Dive ... / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Mike Larson writes : Let's not mince words. This week has been simply awful for the Dow. The Industrials plunged 226 points on Tuesday alone, put in an anemic bounce Wednesday, then sank another 311 yesterday. The carnage was even worse in several sectors I've flagged for months — home builders, financials, commercial REITs and more.
What's going on? What's behind this swan dive? Well, investors can be fickle:
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Friday, July 27, 2007
Dow Jones Index Plunge! Global Economic and Financial Market Inversion! / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
With yesterday's big plunge, the Dow is down nearly 600 points this week. Yet, at the same time, key foreign markets have been mostly rising.
This market action makes two things increasingly evident:
- The U.S. economy is being hampered by a worsening housing crisis, while …
- Most global economies continue to expand at a strong pace.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
FTSE 100 Index Crashes to 6250 - Whats Next ? / Stock-Markets / UK Stock Market
The long awaited summer stock market correction finally kicked into gear this week. The FTSE fell sharply by its largest one day fall in some five years to 6250. Before I get to the current technical picture, the writing for the sell off has been on the walls ever since the warnings flashed to financial markets during the China initiated February 2007 sell offs.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, July 26, 2007
What To Do As Stocks Go BUST! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Stock prices plunging around the world today, some value investor tips come to mind.
1) Do not short the market . If you are thinking of going short because stocks must fall further, think again. Not only have bears that have waited for a sharp fall before entering the market short since 2003 had their heads handed to them, but as volatility returns to the marketplace put option premiums quickly shoot-up. In other words, trying to time the plunge can be dangerous, especially right after a sharp sell off.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Deja' vu, Spike Rally in Japanese Yen Spooks Global Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Perhaps the most important market in the world today is the vast network of foreign currencies, where total trading volume, including derivatives and futures, average around $2.9 trillion a day. This is ten times the size of the combined daily turnover on all the world's equity markets. And as world's economies have become increasingly integrated, so have the foreign exchange and global capital markets.
And the size of the foreign exchange market is mushrooming each year. FX trading increased by 38% between April 2005 and April 2006 and has more than doubled since 2001. That's not surprising, since 18 of the top-20 central banks around the world are tolerating double-digit growth of their money supply. Therefore, fluctuations in the foreign exchange market are bound to become more violent.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
If Leveraged Buybacks, Why Not Leveraged Dividends? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
The equity investing community seems to get giddy when it hears the words “stock buyback.” And why not if the stock is being bought back out of current profits? But what if the corporation is increasing its debt to fund its stock buybacks? The chart below suggests that is what is occurring now and what occurred in the late 1980s and late 1990s. The red bars in the chart represent the dollar amount of the net issuance of equities of nonfinancial corporations. Readings below zero, which predominate, signify the net “retirement” of equities.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
MPTrader - Stock Market Bulls Not Dead.... Yet / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
Inability of the Q's (Nasdaq: QQQQ) to follow-through to the downside after breaking beneath two prior pullback lows at 49.74 and 49.64 was my first indication that the correction off of last Friday's high might be complete. Secondly, the ease with which the Q's recovered half of today's early loss was another clue that the bulls are not dead…yet, and that a new upleg likely is underway that should propel prices to new highs.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
China's Earth-Shattering Growth News / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
Tony Sagami writes: Last week, I told you how typhoon Man-yi, which forced more than 30,000 people from their homes in southwestern Japan, completely disrupted our travel plans.
Then, once we arrived in Nagano, an earthquake shook our room at the Saihokukan Hotel! The tremors were so powerful that they damaged the tracks on the Nagano-Dentetsu train line.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
MPTrader - Stock Market Recovery Ended in the S&P Index? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
Based on the intraday pattern, the S&P 500 Depository Receipts (AMEX: SPY) looks like it ended the recovery rally off of Friday's low (152.84) at this afternoon's high of 154.72 and has turned down. The extent and form of this pullback should reveal to us if the SPY started a new upleg at Friday's low or merely ended the first part of a larger corrective process.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Investment Flash: Ah, The Summer of 1929! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
“As the advertisements in the Ladies Home Journal declare, “This is a sun-worshipping year….all the world has gone in for sun-tan.” ( Since Yesterday by Fredrick Lewis Allen.) The July 6 th 1929 cover of The Saturday Evening Post would also agree:Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Global Megatrends and Among all the successes we've enjoyed together ... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
Martin Weiss writes: Among all the successes we've enjoyed together in recent years, one of the most gratifying to me has been the outpouring of positive feedback regarding my online video briefing.
Now, I'm doing two things:
First, I'm getting ready to take advantage of the minor pullback we saw last week in China and other foreign markets — to take action!
And second, I'm providing the transcript of the video for your review …
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Market Update - Trading The Charts / Stock-Markets / Technical Analysis
It's no secret that I've been getting closer and closer to calling a major top while maintaining the unbiased flexibility to trade both sides of the market as we approach our final destination. We've been perfectly cautious of overextended rallies, while also avoiding panic on the dips and buying bottoms. IF I could have my way from here, I would want to see this market attempt one more screaming rally to just above its recent highs and, at that point, if all things remained the same, I'd be willing to call for a substantial turn, not only in the stock indices, but in several other major markets.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Trouble in Hedgefundistan: “Its gonna get a lot worse” / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch
Two columns of black smoke can be seen rising over Wall Street and disappearing into the ice-blue New York sky.Terrorism?
Not quite. The plumes of smoke are all that's left of two major hedge funds which blew up just weeks ago leaving nothing behind but a few smoldering embers and a mound of black soot.
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
More Stock Markets Selling Pressure Ahead Next Week / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
With just an hour remaining in the session on Friday, I told subscribers to our Web site I was doubtful about the correction having ended, as I noticed the following:
Financial powerhouse Goldman Sachs (GS) remained down about 2.5% for the session, and more importantly, below its 200 DMA (208.31)...
Friday, July 20, 2007
An Unwelcome Guest Has Appeared At Our Bull Market Party / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
The punchbowl has been refilled several times. The party seems to be going strong. But, what is this? An unwanted guest has walked in and the punchbowl is doesn't look as full as it had just a while ago. Who is this unwanted guest? His name is Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO). CDO normally lives on the other side of the tracks, so what is he doing at your party?Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, July 20, 2007
MPTrader - Has Stock Market Correction Ended? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
With just over an hour remaining in today's session, I am wondering if a correction in the major equity market ETF's has ended, and if a new upleg is in its infancy. But I notice that financial powerhouse Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) remains down about 2.5% for the session, and more importantly, remains below its 200 DMA (208.31). I see that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is still down 5% for the session, having bounced off of its 50 DMA (510.81) this AM.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, July 20, 2007
The S&P Stock Market Index Vibrating At Critical Mass / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
Nearly a year ago, back in September of 2006, we shared a keen and timely awareness as The Dow Approached Critical Mass . Save for the miserable comparative retracement performance from the tech-sector off the 2002 lows, numerous equity indices have since broken decisively to the upside above their previous historic highs. The S&P is one of the last to arrive.
The mother of all benchmarks is on the hot-seat
As we pen this market update, the S&P has yet to close above 1553.11. Perhaps it will do so by today – perhaps not.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Subprime Lenders Fallout - It's all hitting the fan! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Mike Larson writes: It's all hitting the fan — right here, right now! The two Bear Stearns (BSC) hedge funds that Martin told you about in late June have reportedly been all but vaporized. Wiped out!
According to a July 18 New York Times story,
"Bear Stearns told clients in its two battered hedge funds late yesterday that their investments, worth an estimated $1.5 billion at the end of 2006, are almost entirely gone. In phone calls to anxious investors, Bear Stearns brokers reported yesterday that May and June had been devastating months for the portfolios.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Investors – Will you be a Winner or Loser? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
In the current markets seems all investors, virtually in the world, are being rewarded with gains in their portfolios.
The U.S. markets as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW) and the S&P 500 continue to make new highs as do most of the foreign stock markets, China, Brazil, Mexico, etc.
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