Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

U.S. Economy, Banking Sector and Gold, Houdini Lives! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Steve_Betts

Un giorno diverrai cenere ed ombra, un nome e non piu. (One day you will become shadows and ashes, a name and nothing more.) Aulo Persio Flacco

The banking system continues to suffer setbacks and the FDIC continues to absorb the mistakes. On Friday they announced the closure of seven more failed institutions, bring the total up to 37 for the year and well ahead of last year’s total of 21 thru March 31st. Here are the new victims:

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Stocks Stealth Bull Market Trend Forecast Into May 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Nadeem_Walayat

This in depth analysis seeks to update the stock market forecast for 2010 (Stocks Stealth Bull Market Trend Forecast For 2010 ) as included in the Inflation Mega-Trend Ebook (Download Now). This analysis specifically seeks to conclude towards a trend forecast for the next 2 months into Mid May 2010.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Stock Market Dow Theory Contrived Buy Signal or Paranoia? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Brian_Bloom

Am I being paranoid? Was the spike in the Dow Jones Industrial Index – which took it to a new high thereby resulting in a Dow Theory buy signal – contrived?

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Five Major Stock Market Myths Exposed! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Larry_Edelson

I’ve covered some of the market myths I’m about to tell you about on occasion in the past. And I’ve wanted to consolidate them into a single article for quite some time now.

But my colleague and internationally-respected analyst Robert Precther beat me to the punch, in an article he recently published for his subscribers.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Investors Beware of Eurozone Plans for Greek Debt Bailout / Stock-Markets / Euro-Zone

By: Money_Morning

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: An old proverb dating back to the Trojan War tells us to "beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

Today, with the fate of the European euro and perhaps even the entire Eurozone region hanging in the balance - and Greece needing a bailout to avoid default on its massive public debt - a more-appropriate warning might be: "Beware of Greeks seeking gifts."

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Which Way Emerging Market Equities? / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets

By: Prieur_du_Plessis

With investors’ risk appetite emboldened by the prospects of an economic recovery, emerging-market equities (+104.0%) have outperformed mature-market equities (+73.3%) by a considerable margin since the commencement of the cyclical bull market in early March 2009. But these numbers camouflage the fact that the past six months have been characterized by essentially a sideways movement in relative performance. This raises the question as to how investors should place their bets over the next few months.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Most Critical Rule for Investing Going Forward / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Graham_Summers

Few commentators understand the manner in which 2008 changed everything, and I mean EVERYTHING about the investing world.  This was no mere Financial Crisis or Deflationary Collapse… this was THE game changer, the event that altered the entire investing landscape so that virtually every and all relationships between various investment classes was thrown out the window.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Who’s the REAL Dumb Money? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Graham_Summers

I apologize for being out of touch. Typically I make every effort to publish an essay every day, but the last few weeks have been extremely busy on the back-end of the website.

As you can see, I’m in the midst of a total website overhaul. Right now we’re about 80% done, but I’ve got a lot a new content to add. So don’t be alarmed if some of the sections are blank right now. They’ll all be filled in with hard, hitting in-depth research soon.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Fed Stock Market Capital Infusions On Options Expiration Weeks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Graham_Summers

Options Expiration= Ramp Job

Well, it’s another options expiration week and that means, yes you guess it, ramp job time! Wall Street loves options expiration week because it’s that wonderful time of the month when they can move entire stock markets any which way they like just to make sure they shred the options traders and close out their own positions at a profit.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Raging Bull in Greed and Abject Stupidity / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Charlie_Tarango

We hear many talk of “Bull” and “Bear” Markets.  But one thing seems to be settled: This “Bull” is either  “Secular” or “Cyclical”- but it is a “Bull”.   Take your pick, right ?

Yes indeed, there is a “Bull Market” – and it is raging.  But it is a “Bull Market” in Greed and Abject Stupidity.  The “Bear Market” is in Common Sense and Logic.  And it is reaching New Lows – we’ve solidly taken out the 2007 Lows.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Stock Market Great Reversal And Yes, Overbought Again..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

No one who is bullish would complain about today's great reversal off the lows which allowed the market to close green across the board. In fact, the S&P 500 made a perfect, and I mean Perfect, back test of the 1151 breakout with an 1152 print just after the opening bell gap down. From that point forward those determined bulls made an amazing run higher throughout the rest of the day to finish with decent gains on solid reversal volume.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Stock Market, An Up and Down Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Steve_Betts

It’s been an interesting start to the week as the Dow opened lower and looked like it could fall even more. Now the Dow is up 45 points. Meanwhile the US dollar rallied all the way up top 81.34, just above strong resistance at 81.32, only to fall back down into negative territory by noon time. Then there was gold! As the US dollar rallied, gold fell down to test strong support at 1,090.10, only to bounce back later in the morning. At 1:15 pm EST the April gold is trading at 1,104.00 down 3.00 for the session.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Gold and Stocks, When it Breaks, It's Going Somewhere In a Hurry... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: J_Derek_Blain

Gold and silver are both in a fairly tight consolidated trading range over the past several weeks, keeping both metals bound within a compressed psychological battle between mid-term bulls and mid-term bears.

Monday, March 22, 2010

What Health Care Plan and A Rising U.S. Dollar Mean For Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

While the new health care plan could have negative implications for business, for taxes, for the deficit, for interest rates and so on, the S&P 500 has gone straight up since its Feb 5 low. I don’t know what it’s been discounting, but it couldn’t have been discounting the negativity implied by the health care plan. Instead, this rally has to be discounting something positive, whatever that may be.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Wall Street Redux / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Captain_Hook

There has been no shortage of mainstream media coverage regarding the public’s growing outrage with Wall Street and its now unparalleled lust for money and power (greed), with everything from Matt Taibbi’s comprehensive accounting of the growing scandal entitled Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle, to the hollow calls from politicians to rein in these apparently misguided people, heavy on the sarcasm here. And with the growing Tea Party Movement and the success of independent candidates like Ron Paul aiming at the next Presidency, you had better believe the bureaucracy (the bureaucracy behind the two party system that really runs the country) is concerned about this growing outrage, where in the balance the final straw that ultimately breaks the camel’s back might have been thrown with this past year’s record bonus packages – this while main street suffers and Washington’s disregard for this suffering is evident.  

Monday, March 22, 2010

Emerging Markets on Buying Spree / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010

By: Frank_Holmes

It’s getting to be common news for a Chinese company (usually with links to the government) to buy a foreign commodities producer to secure supplies of coal, oil, iron ore and other assets to fulfill the country’s ambitious growth plans.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Sir John Templeton, Financial Chaos and Investing / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010

By: Janet_Tavakoli

When my friends Lauren Templeton and Scott Philips gave me a copy of their delightful book, Investing the Templeton Way, they included a memorandum Sir John Templeton sent to Lauren, his great-niece, in 2005.*

Sir John Templeton came from humble origins, founded the Templeton Funds (later bought by Franklin Investments), and died a billionaire in 2008, four months shy of his 96th birthday. Like the book that summarizes his strategies, his memo is written in plain English but communicates profound ideas:

Monday, March 22, 2010

Fastest Economic Recovery Ever Could Push Corporate Profits to Record Highs 2010 / Stock-Markets / Corporate Earnings

By: Money_Morning

Jon D. Markman writes: Sometimes we get a little carried away talking about esoteric subjects like bulls, bears, supply, demand, moving averages and the like. But if you just want to focus on something real, then look at corporate profits. When they're rising from a low, that's good; when they're flat-lining or declining, that's bad. Pretty simple.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Gerald Celente Forecasts Financial Crash and China Trade War 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Submissions

Congress is lurching toward legislation to renovate the financial-regulatory system to reduce the risk of another devastating crisis. Finally, the unveiling of a 1,336-page bill by Sen. Christopher Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, was significant. The move showed he is determined to move a bill through the committee despite his inability to get even a few Republicans to sign on.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Fed Orchestrated Money Printing Lifts Stock Market Higher / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Steve_Betts

Technology is usually a wonderful thing. Advances in production allow us to manufacture and ship countless items, to every corner of the world, on a daily bases. Improvements in communication allow an individual to call the other side of the world in seconds whereas four decades ago you would wait hours, sometimes a day, for an international operator to place your call. You can now surf a thousand channels on your TV instead of the three channels that existed when I was a kid, and world events are brought into your living room as they happen.