Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Thursday, November 18, 2021
Kondratieff Full-Season Stock Market Sector Rotation / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Chris_Vermeulen
In part one of this article, I highlighted my opinion that the US and Global markets rolled through a hyper-active Kondratieff full-season rotation throughout the COVID-19 virus crisis. In 2017 and late 2018:
- Bonds were trading lower
- Gold and Silver were trading near multi-year lows
- Real Estate had peaked in the short term as rates started to rise a bit
- and the Stock market rallied to new all-time highs
All of these are components of a late Spring or early Summer type of Kondratieff Season.
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Monday, June 18, 2018
What Happens Next to Stocks when Tech Massively Outperforms Utilities and Consumer Staples / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Troy_Bombardia
The tech sector has massively outperformed the utilities and consumer staples sectors over the past year.
- The S&P 500 Information technology sector is up 33%…
- While the Utilities sector is down -8%….
- While the Consumer Staples sector is down -8%
Some people see this as a bearish sign for the stock market because “tech is in a bubble”.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Transportation Stocks Are Not Moving and What It Means / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Pay attention to the price movement of the transportation sector for a clearer picture of the future rally
If you have been reading and following are posts this year then you’ve seen the power of our Advanced Dynamic Learning price modeling system and how well we are able to find key market moves. On Monday, the markets stalled, providing further evidence of the future breakout move. The Banking Index was up 0.43%. The $INDU was off by 0.06% while the ES, NQ and YM were mixed. The Transportation Index was up 0.40% while the US Dollar is about to break above the $91.00 level on an attempt to move higher. These moves are telling us that the US economy is about to break higher in an attempt to retest recent highs – just as our ADL predictive price modeling system has been warning.
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Friday, June 30, 2017
Half Of S&P 500 Earnings Growth Can Be Attributed To One Sector, Which Can’t Keep It Up / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : US stocks hit new all-time highs this month. Despite rich valuations, buyers think they’ll still go higher.
One reason for this exuberance is the rise of passively indexed ETFs.
Rather than go to the trouble of picking individual stocks, people dump their cash into index ETFs. The ETF sponsor then buys every stock in the index—even the ugly ones.
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Sunday, February 05, 2017
Retail Prices at wholesale Prices – Next Hot Stocks Sector / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Chris_Vermeulen
As we close out the first week of February, I’m writing to illustrate the types of great opportunities waiting for all of us. All the trades we share are based on our Momentum Reversal Method (MRM) trading system.
There are two key components of this trading strategy; A. identifying recent price rotation, or B. identifying price resumption of existing momentum. Both examples, today, will focus on two unique examples of the Momentum Reversal Method and two unique setups. Today’s examples are XRT and AIQ, setups that we believe will result in tremendous opportunities for traders over the next 2-3 weeks.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Stock Market Sectors, Does Anyone Win With an Interest Rate Hike? / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Investment_U
Matthew Carr writes: Editorial Note: It’s the big moment investors have been waiting for. As we write, the Fed is meeting to decide if it will raise interest rates for the first time since 2006. And while there won’t be any official announcement until Thursday, folks are understandably on edge. But should you be?
We asked Matthew Carr to do what he does best - to sift through decades of market data and uncover the real effect of rate hikes on stocks. We hope you enjoy his commentary. And afterward, if you’re still worried, click here to see how our Chief Investment Strategist Alexander Green is preparing Oxford Club Members for the end of the bull market.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
The Stock Market, the Music Industry and the New Network Economy / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Harry_Dent
Someone rings the bell at 9:30 a.m. and gets the hell out of the way. All types of chaos erupt from second-to-second. Everyone knows, in real-time, what they made or lost.Users drive the system. Not management. Management’s nowhere to even be seen. It’s merged within the light-speed, low-cost software and processes that make the whole thing possible.
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Monday, April 20, 2015
Utility Stocks Sell in May and Go Away Safe Haven / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Each year traders try to navigate their way through the financial market and turn a profit. But this is difficult.
The stock market provides market participants with several opportunities each. With all the holidays and climate changes the market as a whole along with specific sectors typically have seasonal rallies and sell off in price.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Leading Stock Market Sectors Breaking Down – Internet & Social Stocks / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Chris_Vermeulen
In July I showed talked about the Russell 2K index and how it was underperforming the broad market. I went on to explain what it likely meant was in store for the US stock market this fall. The outlook was negative, just in case you were wondering…
This week I want to talk about two different sectors that have often lead the broad market in rallies and corrections over the years. These sectors have underperformed the broad market much like that of small cap stocks, and this does not bode well for investors going into fall.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Five Industries Worried About Peak Oil / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: OilPrice_Com
The debate over the impact of peak oil has been raging for decades. Although few deny that the end of mass oil consumption is drawing nearer, educated estimates now range between 2020 and 2030. But more important than the timeframe of peak oil are its consequences. Some seek to spell the end of life as we know it, so reliant is the world upon black gold. Others, equally extreme in their views, embrace the news, looking forward to a time when humanity will magically clean up its act.
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
The Invisible Power Behind the World's Best Stock Market Investments / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: DailyWealth
Porter Stansberry writes: Over the years, I've explained a lot of Wall Street's "secrets"...
I've explained how discounted bonds are sometimes vastly better investments than stocks. I've covered how selling naked puts is almost always safer and more profitable than buying stocks outright.
These concepts (and others) are critical to active investors. They all play a role in giving you the tools you need to increase your returns. You ought to know all about them and be able to use them tactically to take advantage of opportunities in the market.
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Monday, June 03, 2013
China Showing Surprising Interest in the U.S. Stock Market Food Sector / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong writes: Over the past few years, we have seen an increase in takeover activity in North America’s stock markets by China-based companies. The takeover targets have largely been in the energy and resources areas, where China is in search of alternative sources of raw materials.
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Forget Halloween, It's the Christmas Shopping Season that Has Retailers Running Scared / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Holiday retail sales - which account for almost 40% of retail revenue, worth $453 billion in sales last year - are in jeopardy.
Consumer spending continues to be restrained by an unemployment rate that has stayed above 9% for 26 of the past 28 months. Furthermore, rising food and gasoline costs, fears of a new recession, the loss of equity from the housing collapse, and mountains of leftover credit card debt have prospective purchasers tightening their purse strings.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Biotech and the Unintended Consequences of Moore's Law / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: John_Mauldin
Today we turn away from Europe and QE2 and talk about something I find far more interesting, if not as immediate. I have been talking and emailing with Pat Cox of Breakthrough Technology Alerts a lot lately. There is just so much happening in the biotech space and, as long-time readers know, that is my hobby and the one place I actually buy stocks in this market.
There is just so much misinformation (and sometimes borderline lies by short-sellers). I asked Pat to give us an update on the state of the stem-cell world, and in typical Pat fashion he gives us a lot more to think about. Indeed, Moore’s Law is changing more than just computers.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
How to Profit from the Global Shipping Industry / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
The shipping industry plays an indispensable role in connecting consumers with their most cherished goods. But many investors unfamiliar with its inner-workings underestimate its potential as a massive profit generator.
Meanwhile, investors who are aware of its importance, and can track the volatile ups and downs of the companies that provide shipping services, frequently score big gains from its oft-repeating profit opportunities.
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Thursday, May 05, 2011
Defensive Stocks Sector Strength Points to S&P 500 Weakness / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Donald_W_Dony
The recent sector strength of the Consumer staples ETF (XLP) over the Consumer discretionary ETF (XLY) indicates that money is now flowing out of a growth industry group and into a defensive sector. This action normally occurs during a period of weakness in the S&P 500.
Over the past few years, this shift in buying pressure between these two consumer sectors has provided guidance to the short term movements of the broad-based S&P 500. As models are indicating that a low in the index is expected in June, the returning performance of the defensive staples sector over discretionaries adds some additional evidence to the anticipated pullback.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Stock Energy, Materials, and Industrial Sectors Are Well Positioned / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Since the markets have pulled back significantly from their recent highs, it is a good time to revisit our big picture investment strategy. Attractive sectors, based on fundamental and technical data, include energy (XLE) and industrial stocks (XLI). While a good case for stocks in the materials sector (XLB) also exists, we prefer the materials themselves (commodities) relative to stocks.
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Saturday, February 05, 2011
Stock Market February Seasonality / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: John_Hampson
February is an interesting month by seasonality. Typically the start of six months of underperformance for precious metals and the start of six months of outperformance for oil, it is also the second weakest month of the calendar for stocks.
On this occasion I expect Gold to buck seasonal weakness, given that it has been consolidating for the last 3 months during its seasonally strong time and is now signalling a buy:
Friday, October 29, 2010
Outstanding Investor Profit Opportunity as China Goes Gaga for Gaming / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Doug_Horning
Doug Hornig, Editor, Casey’s Extraordinary Technology writes: Developing nations are playing technological leapfrog.
In the developed world, when we think of technology, the roots of much of what we do today were born decades, or even a century, ago. While the evolution has been fast paced, the progression from there through today is a straight line from the technologies that preceded them. A television program is still a television program. A phone call is still a phone call. The devices might look different and certainly do more, but the lineage is obvious.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Stock Market Sector Strength Indicates Returning Confidence / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Donald_W_Dony
Analysts and economists often refer to the strength or weakness in certain key industrial groups as evidence of a recovering or declining economy. During the recovery phase of a typical business cycle, there is usually greater buying emphasis on industry sectors that reflect a more optimistic stance. This wave of confidence can shift short-term to a more defensive approach.
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