Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Is a Stock Market Crash Imminent / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Bob_Clark
Assets are already inflated We are seeing some amazing imbalances in the markets. I don't remember so many different asset classes being this heavily shorted or hedged by large commercials, all at the same time. Don't get me wrong, to rise and fall together is fairly normal now. It is the extremes we are reaching that is amazing. The red line on the chart shows commercial long positions minus short positions in the various futures instruments.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
U.S. Mortgage Foreclosure Fiasco Weighs on Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
The surprise decision by the PBoC to raise rates by 25bps (I’d now expect tomorrows GDP and CPI numbers to be upside surprises !) led to de-risking across the board and US stocks suffered their biggest setback in 2 months. The dollar (the $ index DXY +1.7 percent) was the main beneficiary as it had its biggest gain in 6 months. Commodities had a knee-jerk move lower with Gold -2.5 percent, Crude -4 percent, and Copper -3 percent. Every major S&P Subsector finished in the red with Autos (-3.3 percent), Energy (-2.4 percent), and Materials (-2.25 percent) the biggest losers. Financials (-.9 percent) held up very well over the morning, but a report released at 1:30 rattled the Banks and sent the S&P’s down an additional percent (1156 low).
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Think “Globally” For Investing Opportunities / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Tony_Sagami
Judging from the response, my last article on Asian IPOs caught a lot of people’s attention.
Of the top 15 performing IPOs this year, nine of them are foreign companies. Out of those nine foreign companies, one is from India: MakeMyTrip.com (MMYT). One is from the Cayman Islands: Fabrinet (FN). The rest are from China, such as SouFun Holdings (SFUN), China New Borun (BORN), and Country Style Cooking (CCSC).
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Bank Index Shows Clear Relative Weakness For Stock Market QE Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Claus_Vogt
The main driver of the stock market rally off the late-August low seems to be the Fed’s relatively clear announcement of quantitative easing number two. Market participants seem to think that another round of extremely easy money will accomplish what the first round couldn’t.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wall Street, Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractal geometry, died Oct. 14.
As mathematicians go, Mandelbrot was very likely the best of the last half-century. And that brilliance extended to the financial markets. In fact, his groundbreaking insights into the operations of the stock market could have been used to avert the 2008 crash - had those insights only been heeded.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Stocks Have Been Riding the Feds Quantitative Easing Higher, Could be Topping / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
It’s been a while since I’ve dedicated a daily report to stocks so today I would like to spend some time discussing the Dow. Stocks have been riding the Fed’s implicit promise for more quantitative easing higher, and it now appears to me that the wave is about to wash up on shore and expire. The initial effects of easing mean more liquidity while the long term effects mean more debt heaped on top of older obligations that will never be repaid. A once great nation is now reduced to borrowing money in order to service the interest on existing arrears with no intention of paying it back. The liquidity is a result of the printing press as the Fed becomes the buyer of last resort in both the stock and bond market. A good analogy is a patient on life support just before he takes his last breath.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Stock Market Steep Sell-Off, Though Indices Bounce Off Lows / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices opened with big gaps down today, fell sharply lower, but did rally back in the morning to take back about half the losses, but that was a 3-wave corrective-looking rally. Then they rolled over late morning to early afternoon sharply, bounced a couple times, managed to hold the morning lows on the Nasdaq 100, but took them out twice on the S&P 500, reaching down just below 1160. They snapped back in the last 15-20 minutes and took back a chunk of the losses.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Chinese Interest Rate Hike Spooks Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
U.S. stocks rose Monday to a five-month high, led by financial shares, after Citigroup.’s earnings topped estimates and an unexpected drop in industrial production was taken as a further sign that the Federal Reserve will help fuel the recovery with another bout of QE. Citigroup rallied 5.4%. Hasbro., the second-largest toymaker, advanced 3.8% after reporting higher-than- estimated earnings. But Halliburton, the second-biggest oilfield-services provider, slumped 4.8% as profit missed analysts’ estimates.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
European Emerging Stock Markets Top Performers / Stock-Markets / European Stock Markets
By: Frank_Holmes
Well-known author and investment consultant Roger Gibson recently hosted a webcast where he educated investors on the importance of diversifying into international markets and we believe it is an opportune time to explore new areas with your portfolio.
Global investment guru Nicholas Vardy says “there’s always a bull market somewhere” and it’s up to investors to find it. We think there’s a bull market emerging in Eastern Europe.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Investors Look to Emerging Markets as the Fed Diminishes the U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes:
The main thrust of the past two months has been the renewed collapse of the U.S. dollar.
The dollar has been on a one-way elevator ride to the ground floor since August, when U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke first warned that quantitative easing was on the horizon.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Stock Market Bullishness is Paradoxically a Warning Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Brian_Bloom
One reason that charts are important is that they facilitate a view of the financial world that enables one to cut through all the background waffle. Fundamental analysis anticipates what “should be”. Technical analysis reflects what “is” – whether it should be or not.
Below are a few charts which reflect that what “is” is not reflecting what “should be”. We can shout as loudly as we like but facts are facts.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Jim Rogers on Rebel Economics, Gold Refuge and Krugman Should Resign / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Videos
Whenever you print money, people look for a refuge, gold, Paul Krugman Should resign, He doesn’t know anything about economics. and neither does President Obama.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Gold Volatile to $1500 But Chinese Stock Market SSEC to Outperform! / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Lorimer_Wilson
Dr. Nu Yu writes: There has been a great deal of excitement about the recent performances of gold and silver with most analysts extremely optimistic regarding their potential. That being said technical analysis shows that gold is in for some very choppy seas ahead compared to the surging seas of the Chinese stock market. Perhaps today the refrain "Got Gold?" should be replaced with the words, "Buy Chinese Stocks!"
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Largest Heist in History Building the Great Pyramid, The Global Financial Crisis Explained / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Stockpedia
Greg Pytel writes: When the financial crisis erupted at the end of September 2008, there was an unusual sense of incredible panic among banking executives and government officials. These two establishment groups are known for their conservative, understated approach and, above all, their stiff upper lip. Yet at the time they appeared to the public running about like headless chickens. It was chaos. A state of complete chaos. Within a few weeks, however, decisions were made and everything seemed to returned to normal and back under control. The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown even famously remarked that the government “saved the world.”
Monday, October 18, 2010
70 RSI's... AAPL and IBM... Pullback Time Is Here...... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
No one will argue that it's inappropriate for this market to sell off here. 70, or higher, RSI's abound on all the major daily index charts. The NDX as high as 77 today. That's just unsustainable for a very long period of time, even in the best of market conditions. The market starts looking for a catalyst and it found it big time after hours this evening.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
The Four Portfolio Investment Risks You Can’t Avoid / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
By: Investment_U
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Colombia a Hot Investment Market / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: The_Gold_Report
Chris Berry is the founder of the New York-based mining research firm, House Mountain Partners, LLC, which focuses on the evolving geopolitical relationship between emerging and developed economies, the commodity space and junior mining and resource stocks positioned to benefit. Miller O'Prey, a well-respected professional geologist, is COO of Solvista Gold Corp. He has been working in Colombia for five years, and previously worked with both Grupo de Bullet and Continental Gold Ltd. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report at the 6th Annual Colombian Mining Conference in Medellin, they share their enthusiasm about Colombia as an emerging investment market and offer strong recommendations for junior mining firms that offer excellent prospects.
Monday, October 18, 2010
How to Protect Yourself From the Stock Market Inflate-a-Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jared_Levy
We are now officially in the thick of earnings season, which means added volatility for the marketplace. Splashy headlines like Google’s surprise surge in sales are making the bulls bolder by the day.
And as long as earnings reports continue to at least meet consensus estimates on average, that most likely won’t be the foundation for a correction… yet.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Chilean Miners Rescue and Investing in Chile / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: The efficient, well-managed rescue of the 33 Chilean miners was an affecting spectacle for the world. It also should remind us that Chile is a well-run country, and that in an era when commodities are ever more important to the global economy, it is becoming an essential part of investors' portfolios.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 18, 2010
SP500 & Natural Gas Short Term Trend Charts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The broad markets along with metals have been on fire but in the last two weeks we have seen the sentiment become stronger. The extreme bullishness we are seeing has made it difficult for low risk swing traders to get in on the action simply because there have not been many sizable pullbacks. Instead the prices have been inching their way higher with very minor pullbacks before surging again.