Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Thoughts on the Next Decade of Market Performance / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment

By: Mike_Stathis

Last month I posted a poll on my website www.avaresearch.com asking readers by how much the U.S. stock market would return on average, annually over the next ten years.  The results were a bit surprising. 

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Financial Sector Stocks XLF ETF Nearing a Peak? / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Now that the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) has climbed to my optimal next upside target zone 13.80-14.00 (I took my profit late yesterday), let's notice that the price structure has climbed vertically towards the top trendline of the July bullish price channel. My near term work aruges that we should expect a peak in and around the 14.00-14.20 area in the upcoming hours, which could coincide with the rebalance of Citigroup (C) after the close this evening. C is going into the S&P 500, and supposedly The Street must buy 650 million shares to "rebalance" their index portfolios.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Goldman Sachs the Great American Financial Markets Bubble Machine / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Global_Research

Matt Taibbi writes: From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again 

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The Next Stock Market Panic is Here! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Q1_Publishing

We’re in the midst of the next stock market panic and no one is paying attention.

Worst of all, it will be the type of panic that will take more folks by surprise and, in the end, will turn out to be more costly to most investors than last fall’s market sell-off.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Consumer Confidence and Stock Market Investor Sentiment Indicators / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment

By: Richard_Shaw

The broad consumer confidence index reported a decline below the 50% level on July 28. Let’s see how some other dimensions of confidence look.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Stock Market Signals a Medium-Term Rally / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Money_and_Markets

Claus Vogt writes: In last week’s Money and Markets column, I talked about probabilities. And I explained why I expect the current stock market rally to have legs. This market call, however, is valid for just a few quarters …

My long-term outlook hasn’t changed one iota!

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Investment Grade Value Stock Index (IGVSI) Soars 24% / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Steve_Selengut

The Investment Grade Value Stock Index is a barometer of a small but elite sector of the stock market. Some Investment Grade Value Stocks are included in all averages and indices, but even the Dow Jones Industrial Average includes several issues that are below Investment Grade and very few boast an A+ S & P rating.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Stocks Bear Market NOT Over, Stocks WILL Crash this Fall! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Graham_Summers

Yesterday we detailed the different between this current economic contraction, and your usual run of the mill plain vanilla recessions. We also went over the MASSIVE consumer credit contraction that needs to occur before American households have finished de-leveraging.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Runaway Stock Markets Relentlessly Moving Higher / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Frederic_Simons

Are you waiting for that pullback to get into stocks ? Nervous of missing out ? This is what a lot of investors certainly feel like. For several stock market updates, we have told subscribers repeatedly what we think about the recent strong upmove and its psychological implications:

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Stock Market Bubble-Mania in China Spreads to Global Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Gary_Dorsch

The S&P-500 Index, a global bellwether for the world stock markets, extended its best five-month winning streak since 1938, by advancing through the psychological 1,000-level, and is up nearly 50% from its 12-year low set on March 10th.  The S&P-500 gained 7.4% in July, its best monthly performance since 1997, even as average earnings per-share tumbled -32% and sales slid -16% from a year ago.

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

The Next Three Government-Backed Asset Bubbles Unveiled / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble

By: Q1_Publishing

The good times are back!

U.S. GDP declined at a mere 1% annualized rate, after inflation, between April and June.

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Burning Fiat Paper Financial Casles / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Captain_Hook

‘Its only castles burning’ – A piercing lyric central to a Neal Young classic and also an appropriate sentiment with respect to the paper castles burning in the world of finance these days. Whether it’s a result of inflation or deflation – value is being lost – paper is burning – to reflect the value that never was. Our service-based economy is all an illusion you see, poised to burn like Rome at its turn, in grand scale. This what happens in fiat currency economies, where paper castles that are built on whims and flap in the wind, easily susceptible to the first spark that comes along. So, don’t let such an outcome bring you down, find something that is turning (protect you) – that being gold – and you will come around just fine.

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Surging Commodity Prices Could Crush the Stock Market Recovery / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: MoneyWeek

Stock markets around the world had another rip-roaring day yesterday.

The S&P 500 traded above 1,000 for the first time since November. The FTSE 100 hit its highest point since October.

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

For Stock Markets It Seems the Only Way is UP / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: PaddyPowerTrader

The markets summer of love with stocks continued unabated yesterday as the S&P topped 1,000 and the Nasdaq pushed through the 2,000 barrier for the first time since October. Yesterday’s fresh catalyst was Ford’s bullish sales report (up 2.4% YOY, their 1st monthly rise since Nov 2000) and a better than expected jump in manufacturing ISM (which was no clunker, see below), while renewed gains in commodities and oil (above $71 barrel) cheered producers.

Monday, August 03, 2009

Financial Market Forecasts 2009 Update, Gold Ready For $1,000/oz / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: John_Lee

This is a follow up to the Q1 2009 Summary On Gold And Various Markets issued on March 31, 2009 ( http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article9800.html)

In the first quarter of 2009, we reached the climax of US banking collapse. Global central banks hurried to apply fiscal and monetary stimulus, including unconventional "Quantitative Easing", which entail ed the printing of over $1.5 trillion to buy troubled mortgage and derivative assets. Our conclusion then was

Monday, August 03, 2009

Stocks Bear Market Not Over And Stock Markets Will CRASH This Fall / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Graham_Summers

A lot of commentators have begun heralding a new bull market in stocks. Day after day, I hear that March was THE bottom, that the next bull market has begun, and that anyone betting on another collapse is a moron.

These claims are not only wrong, they are completely misleading and should be depicted for what they are: nonsensical hype from sources with conflicted interests: folks whose jobs and income stem largely from people remaining bullish.

Monday, August 03, 2009

Investment Thoughts, Stock Market Eventual Retest of March Lows / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: David_Urban

Not going to chase the market for a number of reasons, but most of all we should see a retest of the March lows sometime in the distant future, maybe a year or so.  The US banking sector is still not  healthy and has been propped up by regulatory rule changes. 

Monday, August 03, 2009

Stock Market Makes Significant Transition Progress From Bear to Bull Market / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Chris_Ciovacco

The transition from a bear market to a bull market is just that; a transition. Transitions take time and are not binary events like turning a light on or off. Transitions in any market can be frustrating and stressful, but if we continue to focus on the most important and telling indicators, the market should get us pointed in the right direction and aligned with the primary trends.

Monday, August 03, 2009

Stock Market Bulls Rush In / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Joseph_Russo

In a recent article entitled, “June Gloom / Summer Rally” penned just two months ago, we brought to readers’ attention the prospect of a summer rally following a brief period of gloom in June.  We wrapped up that piece with the following remarks:

 “As in 2007, July provides such opportunity for a commensurate equity consolidation.  Following a successful summer/fall rally thereafter, October of 2009, the two-year anniversary of the all-time high may bring with it an echo of the blind bullishness experienced at that time.” 

Monday, August 03, 2009

Bankrupt Bailed Out Banks Buying U.S. Treasuries to Keep Interest Rates Low / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

U.S. lenders bailed out by the government are returning the favor by stepping up purchases of Treasuries, helping to temper a rise in borrowing costs.