Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Gold, Stocks and Falling Inflation Producer Price Index / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
The Producer Price Index (PPI) fell a large 0.6% in the month of February, twice the projected decline. The poor performance was blamed on declining oil prices, but if the crude oil futures pit is to be believed, the April contract opened the month of February at 74.91 and closed out the month of February at 79.66. That’s a gain in my book! Of course there is nothing to worry about since the “core” number, excluding food and energy, still rose by 0.1%.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Stocks Stealth Bull Market Closes At New Dow High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The stocks stealth bull market that bottomed in March 2009 confounded widely held expectations by both the bulls and bears of immediate term price action lower to dissipate its overbought state that has failed to materialise, instead the stock market has broken to a new bull market high by closing at Dow 10,733 (trading high 10768).
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Scoop Up Resource Stocks on Dips On Stock Market Corrections / Stock-Markets / Resources Investing
By: The_Gold_Report
Over the course of the last 12 months, many analysts and newsletter writers have been discussing precious metals stocks as an alternative to fiat currencies. What opportunities remain—new and old—in Mexico, Colombia and elsewhere for investors? In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mike Kachanovsky, aka 'Mexico Mike', (Investor's Digest of Canada), discusses why he believes the market is better than ever for precious metals, as well as the abating political risk for mining companies in countries such as Mexico, Colombia and Vietnam.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
China FXI ETF Blasting Higher! / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Larry_Edelson
In just the last nine trading sessions, my favorite investment to capitalize on China’s blistering economic growth iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 ETF (FXI) — has soared more than eight full percentage points, thrusting through the $41 level.
And in the past month, this China-focused ETF is up more than 13%!
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Stock Market S&P 500 Parts and Pieces Performance / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Richard_Shaw
Good news or bad news on the fundamental and macroeconomic front, US stocks are on a clear up trend. The small-cap and mid-cap stocks are farther above their January highs than the large-cap stocks, but the large-cap stocks are doing well too.
Pretty much no matter how you slice it (market-weighted, equal weighted, sector equal weighted, earnings weighted, revenue weighted, or dividend weighted), the S&P 500 (and large-cap) US stock market is in a clear up trend.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Nothing Performs Better in Times Like These Than Real Estate REITs / Stock-Markets / Housing Stocks
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: Darn it. I should have known better...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Stock Market Run Run Away / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Toby_Connor
Last week I hypothesized that the markets are “On the Brink of an Asset Explosion”. If this is going to play out then we can probably expect to see runaway moves develop in virtually all assets soon.
The rally out of the `06 bottom to the February `07 mini crash is a classic example of a runaway move (chart below). Note the brief measured corrections. Needless to say, if something like this develops soon, one doesn’t want to get caught on the bearish side of the tracks.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Fed Keeps The Cheap Money Tap Running / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Leading into the release of the US Federal Reserve minutes yesterday evening, the unknown was what the wording of the statement would be like. Some traders were afraid that the Fed would ease back on its promise to keep rates low for an “extended period”. But in the end, the market bulls got what they wanted as the statement included the sentence “are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period.” (For a second consecutive meeting, Kansas City Fed Pres Hoenig dissented, saying that the “extended period” is no longer warranted).
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
My YouTube Stock Market Sentiment Index / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
By: Steven_Vincent
I take my trading and market analysis very seriously. But once in a while you have to let your hair down (what's left of it, anyway) and have a little fun.
I had noticed that on YouTube it seemed that bearishly apocalyptic market and economic analysis (most of which should be referred to as "analysis") received far more views than bullish or neutral postings. I also noticed that such videos would receive many concurring comments and favorable ratings while bullish analysis was frequently targeted for denigration.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Global Stocks Bull Market Gathering Steam / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Puru_Saxena
The ongoing bull-market in global stocks is gathering steam and over the past few days, the momentum has shifted in favour of the West. Yesterday, the S&P500 Index closed at a 17-month high and we expect further gains over the following weeks. Over in Asia, our preferred markets are performing well, with India leading the way. Furthermore, it seems to us as though China and Vietnam are also about to commence another upleg within their primary uptrends. Given the fact that the Asian economies are in a much better shape than the West, we continue to believe that stocks in India, China and Vietnam will produce solid growth over the course of this business cycle. Therefore, we are holding on to our positions and believe that near-term weakness represents a buying opportunity.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Stock Market Oscillators Extremely Overbought...Market Very Strong..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
We are in a bull market. This isn't news to anyone by now. We've been in from the lows and have ridden this puppy all the way up. However, there comes a time in the evolution of a bull market where you have to start reining it in. It doesn't mean you can't be in some or in good set ups but it does mean that entering more plays from this point forward carries extreme risk for the short term. Not the medium term, the short term. The S&P 500 broke through 1151 today with some decent force and may want a bit higher before selling to retest but let's go over the RSI's and stochastics on the daily charts across the major index charts.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
All Eyes on the Fed / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
The Fed is meeting today and that’s all we’ll hear about on the financial news networks as they hang on every word in the statement fashioned from the get-together. There have been inklings that the Fed is now considering how they’ll siphon liquidity from the system and a lot of analysts will be looking for indications as to how that will happen. Two weeks ago the idea was floated that the Fed would use reverse repos’ to get the job done, but the market was not impressed.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Climax of the Stock Market Broadening Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The picture above is a basic outline of the broadening top formation as described by John J. Murphy in his book, “Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets,”(pp. 150-152) published in 1986.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Financial Market Investors & Traders Beware The Ides of March / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
“Beware the Ides of March”,
Soothsayer to Julius Caesar
Last night the Chinese market treaded water with little change and I would like to continue the discussion started over the weekend with respect to the US’s largest creditor. China’s recent stimulus package was instrumental in preventing a major slowdown in their export sector as the world economy cooled. Now they are busy reigning in an economy that is growing at more
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
It's Time to Invest in Canada / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: This isn't the first time that I've written about Canada, a well-run country that has avoided many of the mistakes made by the United States. Its budget deficit is moderate, its balance-of-payments deficit is also small, its banking system is in pretty good shape and it faces very little inflation risk, since the country has maintained a reasonable monetary policy.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Stock Market Buying Power Pushes Rally to New High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Checking in with the volume experts over at Lowry Research Corp., it appears that U.S. stock market buying power hit a new rally high last week, while selling pressure hit a new low.
That reflects the same pattern of expanding demand and contracting supply that has characterized the entire rally out of the March 2009 lows - a rally that's now one year old.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Wealthbuilder Quarterly Stock Market Brief and McDonald's MLD Stock Pick / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Christopher_Quigley
The American stock market is still working through a consolidation phase following the magnificent run up since March of last year. The Dow transports have presented us with a new Dow buy signal but so far the Industrials have unconfirmed. The Dow 30 needs to break the 10,700 range convincingly before I will advise student clients to re-enter the market through their virtual portfolios.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
How Is Credit Created? What is the Best Public Banking / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Washingtons_Blog
This is an open letter to the economics, finance and banking communities.
I don't have any dog in the fight, other than to figure out and then publicize what is best for the greatest number of people. People I greatly respect advocate for federal-level public banking, state public banks or a return to the gold standard. I am simply attempting to start a high-level debate about what the best option is.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
What Can Movies Tell You About the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: EWI
The following article is adapted from a special report on "Popular Culture and the Stock Market" published by Robert Prechter, founder and CEO of the technical analysis and research firm Elliott Wave International. Although originally published in 1985, "Popular Culture and the Stock Market" is so timeless and relevant that USA Today covered its insights in a recent Nov. 2009 article. For the rest of this revealing 50-page report, download it for free here.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Stock Market Buying The Dip..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The market started to sell today. Finally!! We started fairly flat but then started heading down with the Nasdaq leading the way, which made sense since it has been the leader on the way up in this bull market. What leads up is the most overbought thus it's likely that it'll lead down to unwind those oscillators. However, a funny thing happened, yet again, when this market tried to sell off. It couldn't stand the selling. Very unusual to say the least. This market was at extreme levels of overbought coming in to today thus when it started to sell it made sense that the selling would stick and it seemed that it would. A few buying attempts were thwarted down by the bears, making today seem as if it would be a trend down day.
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