Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Stocks Bear Market and Crash Bomb Damage Assessment for Key Asset Categories / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
This article takes a look at results for important asset categories since several key dates: (1) the approximate October 2007 stock markets high, (2) the approximate March 2009 stock markets low, (3) YTD 2010, and (4) since the January 19, 2010 election breaking the 60% Democrat super-majority in the US Senate.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
U.S. Investor End of Year Tax Loss Harvesting and Other Strategies / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Nilus_Mattive
Since I’m not only doing the usual holiday running around, but also trying to prepare for an upcoming three-week trip to India, I’m acutely aware of just how hectic this time of the year can be.
But I also recognize that this is precisely one of the most important times for making moves that could significantly impact your finances, too.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
The Secrets to Successful Market Investment Entry and Exit Timing / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Many so-called experts would have you believe that it's impossible to "time" the markets. That's just not true. There's actually a secret to market timing. It's not just a matter of the economy. It's a matter of how perception and collective psychology gauge the risk of realizing a real profit - doing so with shifting economic conditions as the market's backdrop.
This works for all the markets, including stocks, bonds, commodities, precious metals and currencies.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Year-End Investment Profit Parachute Strategy / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The end of an empire always comes when the currency is destroyed.”Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul, November 9, 2007
““That probably has to be a basket," Strauss-Kahn said of the eventual replacement for the dollar. "In a globalized world there is no domestic solution," he told a forum…
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Stock Market is Going Lower, Buy Stocks…Now? / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
It sounds crazy, I know.
All signs point to the market heading lower. The major indices are fundamentally overvalued, the real economy has barely improved, and expectations are approaching lofty highs.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
China Up / U.S. Down Investment Risk Theme Checkup / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
One big investment risk is subscribing to a popular mantra with your life’s savings, without continuously checking the data — the facts — to make sure the mantra continues to make sense.
The “China up” and “U.S. down” theme is a major current mantra. There are plenty of very bright, well informed, high profile people espousing the virtues of investing in China — people such as Marc Faber, Jim Rogers, Mohamed El-Erian, George Soros and many others.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Investing in Preferred Shares Dividend Stocks / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Nilus_Mattive
When I talk about dividend stocks here at Money and Markets, I almost always mean common shares of a company.
But today I want to tell you about another class of stock that some income investors gravitate toward: “Preferred” shares.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Investment Portfolio Protection Strategy / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Steve_Selengut
A participant in the morning Working Capital Model (WCM) investment workshop observed: I've noticed that my account balances are returning to their (June 2007) levels. People are talking down the economy and the dollar. Is there any preemptive action I need to take?
Monday, October 26, 2009
Closing the Doors on Return Chasers: Mutual Fund Inflows Create Problems / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Paul_Petillo
Like a torrential downpour can overwhelm gutters, flood streets and generally create the kind of havoc only water can, too much money flowing into mutual funds can also leave a mark on both new investors and those of record.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Copenhagen 2009 and the Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
We don’t know if the furor over climate, economic and sovereignty issues coming to a head over the impending December Copenhagen climate treaty is correct, incorrect, exaggerated or spot-on.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
U.S. and China Stock ETFs Volume and Money Flow Analysis / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
In our last article, we estimated the probable price range of the S&P 500 based on historical and implied volatility, and suggested that the positive area of the range was more likely than the negative area for the next few weeks, because of the moving average trend indicators and the declining volatility of the 1-month and 3-month CBOE volatility indexes.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
The Ultimate Stock Market Buy and Hold Investors are Betting Big Here / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
We’re entering earnings season once again and most investors are on edge.
Will companies be able to top estimates again? Earnings estimates are low, but they’re not as low as they were last quarter when 70% of the S&P 500 beat estimates.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Miss the Stock Market Rally? Currencies an Alternative Investment Class / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Bryan_Rich
I normally talk only about currencies here in my Money and Markets column. But today I want to address some commonly held misconceptions many investors have about how their investment portfolios should be performing in today’s market.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Stock Market Investing Buy and Hold Strategy, Is it Back / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: INO
The Game of Buy-and-Hold: It Is Over Forever
Hi, this is Adam Hewison and I have just returned from vacation in Maine. This is my first day at the office and my first video from the digital den.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Stock Market Investing, Not a Time for Buy and Hold / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Claus_Vogt
Many investors are finding that the current situation in the stock market is very difficult to read because the conclusions of different analytical approaches are unusually conflicting. So let’s review the three most important ones and discuss the relevance of each. Then I’ll tell you what I think is the best way to deal with them.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Profit Opportunity Knocks, But Beware The Stock Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: DeepCaster_LLC
- Will China Break The Cartel’s Grip on the Gold Price? -
“Opportunity knocks” in today’s Treacherous Markets, as it were; but not necessarily on the long side.
Consider Gold.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Stock Market Investors September Warning / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: When the "Great Crash" came in 1929, it came in October. So, too, did the infamous "Crash of '87." And last year, during a tortuous October that led to even lower lows in the months to come, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index lost 19% of its value in just 30 days.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Legendary Investors Bet Big on the Inevitable Inflation / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
The most powerful people in the financial world are doing anything they can to prevent it.
Central bankers fear it. CEO’s hate it. Banks get destroyed by it.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Annual Survey of Investment Asset Peformance for 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Michael_J_Kosares
The One-Year Survey - There is an old saying that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed jack is king. Similarly, in the land of little or no yield and plunging asset values, there is something to be said for that which holds its own, as gold did in USAGOLD's Annual Survey of Investments for 2009.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Economic Recovery and China's Economy Creating a $300 Trillion Investment Profit Opportunity / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: What's the name of the world's best-selling beer?
Hint: It's not Budweiser. And it's not Bud Light.