Category: Financial Markets 2010
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, July 26, 2010
How To Be Positioned for SP500, Gold & Oil / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The second half of last week we saw some strong price action in the equities market. The SP500 broke through the 5 and 50 day moving averages closing the week just under key resistance levels. The SP500 futures will find resistance at the June high $1099.25, $1100 which is whole number then at $1103 which is the 200 day moving average. Each of these are clumped together making it really just one solid area which sellers will be waiting to short the market.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Stocks, Commodities and Financial Markets, The Shape of Things to Come / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world" --- Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864
The special pay master, Kenneth R. Feinberg, let it be known that seventeen firms made “ill-advised” and “troublesome” payouts to their executives while they were receiving TARP funds. Altogether the payouts totaled US $1.6 billion and Mr. Feinberg added that the executives had no legal obligation to give the money back.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Mid 2010 Investment and Economic Thought / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: David_Urban
It was my mantra at the beginning of the year that long-term investors should stay in cash and wait for attractive buying opportunities to come along.
Price-earnings ratios are once again becoming attractive. While they may seem high and nowhere near lows that sparked past bull markets investors would be wise to begin putting together lists of favorite stocks and begin monitoring prices in anticipation of putting cash to work.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Stocks Bull Markets Generate Economic Growth / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The UK economy is booming! 1.1% growth for Q2 2010 annualises to 4.4%. The academic economists that populate the mainstream press were caught off guard again! with growth expectations ranging from 0.3% to 0.5%. As is usually the case the excuses button was pressed to try and mask the fact that they to all intents and purposes remain clueless on the direction of UK Economy with much press chatter focused on an non existant double dip recession.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Full Access to all of EWI's Intensive Energy Specialty Services / News_Letter / Financial Markets 2010
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterJuly 21st, 2010 Issue #43 Vol. 4
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Stocks Stealth Bull Market Correction Generating China Buying Opportunity? / News_Letter / Financial Markets 2010
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterJuly 18th, 2010 Issue #42 Vol. 4
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Positive European Bank Stress Tests Sending Markets Higher / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Gregor_Horva
Hello Traders!!
Equity market was higher this week with S&P 500 up around 3.55%, and finished the week above resistance line connected from May 11th, 2010. At the same time the prices moved and closed above the 50 day SMA, for the first time since early May when S&P was falling from its highs. Technically the stocks market is now headed higher, towards the 1140 region, as we also pointed out in our past newsletter (U.S. Dollar And Stocks: “Market Psychology and Wave Structure").
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Positive European Bank Stress Tests Sending Markets Higher / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Gregor_Horva
Hello Traders!!
Equity market was higher this week with S&P 500 up around 3.55%, and finished the week above resistance line connected from May 11th, 2010. At the same time the prices moved and closed above the 50 day SMA, for the first time since early May when S&P was falling from its highs. Technically the stocks market is now headed higher, towards the 1140 region, as we also pointed out in our past newsletter (U.S. Dollar And Stocks: “Market Psychology and Wave Structure").
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Stock Market, Dollar and Gold Trend Facts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
I’ve known for a long time that elections were all about money, but I never realized just how bad and broad the problem was until I read that most of the sitting judges along the Gulf Coast receive donations from big oil. Big money has its hand in everything and it is the dominant force in the United States today. It elects your government, decides how you live, decides what and how you eat, where you can go and where you can’t, and what kind of life your children will live. It’s the modern version of the old fashioned “company store”, the theme from Tennessee Ernie Ford’s song “Sixteen Tons”.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
SP-500 and GLD Time to Rally / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: John_Townsend
At the time of my most recent article, we had just begun the stock market rally out of the July 2nd bottom and I suggested the rally would be able to continue higher, which it did, until the SP-500 1100 level stopped it on 3 consecutive days. Since then, we have taken 45 points off the index and today began a successful rally from 1057 that ended the day at 1083.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Consumer Confidence Collapsing, Economy Sinking Investor Profit Bonanzas / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Martin_D_Weiss
Rarely are the signs of an economic downturn as clear as they are today — collapsing consumer confidence, sinking retail sales, another round of housing market troubles, and much more.
And even more rarely do we see the stock market defy those signs like it did through Thursday of last week — finally succumbing, however, on Friday with the Dow’s 261-point decline.
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Stock Market and Gold Summer Correction, Remember White Swans Out Number Black Swans / News_Letter / Financial Markets 2010
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterJuly 11th, 2010 Issue #41 Vol. 4
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Stocks Stealth Bull Market Correction Generating China Buying Opportunity? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
China - You will no doubt have heard much about the start of the great chinese stocks bear market as the Shanghai SSEC index has fallen below 2,500 to currently stand at 2,424. In my opinion the whole trend off of the high is a correction and therefore represents a opportunity to buy at bargain prices.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
It’s the End of the World As We Know It / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
What are 308,367,109 Americans supposed to do?
First of all, despite clamping down on immigration, our population grew by 2.6M people last year. Unfortunately, not only did we not create jobs for those 2.6M new people but we lost about 4M jobs so what are these new people going to do? Not only that, but nobody is talking about the another major job issue: People aren’t retiring! They can’t afford to because the economy is bad – that means there are even less job openings… The pimply faced kid can’t get a job delivering pizza because his grandpa’s doing it.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
Stocks Retreat, Gold Breaks Wedge Formation and Dollar Preps for Massive Rally / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
FDIC Friday back on the job. - The FDIC Failed Bank List announStocks Retreat, Gold Breaks Wedge Formation and Dollar Preps for Massive Rallyced six new bank closures this week. FDIC employees appear to be back on the job. I wonder how quickly the FDIC runs out of money? My count suggests 91 failed banks so far in 2010.Stocks Tumble as Banks, GE Trail Revenue Estimates
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks slid, wiping out a weekly advance, as revenue at Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and General Electric Co. missed analyst estimates and a gauge of consumer confidence slid to the lowest in a year. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Option Expiry Bear Raid on SP500 Futures and Gold Close Charts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Jesse
I had thought that the SP 500 would fail at a slightly higher level, the blue resistance trendline, but apparently that is not the case, at least for now.
Earnings misses in the banks and key tech bellwethers is driving the selling, and not coincidentally on the option expiration Friday for July. Michigan sentiment came in at a very low 66.5 which was well below expectations. At least for now belief in the recovery is off the table.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Investor Essential Clues to the Next Mega Market Moves / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“…In essence, these private banks and corporations now own the revenue stream of the Federal government and its taxpayers. Neat con, and the marks will never understand how "saving our financial system" led to their servitude to the very interests they bailed out.
The circle is now complete: in "saving our financial system," the public borrowed trillions and transferred the money to private Power Elites, who then buy the public debt with the money swindled out of the taxpayer. Then the taxpayers transfer more wealth every year to the Power Elites/Plutocracy in the form of interest on the Treasury debt. The Power Elites will own the debt that was taken on to bail them out of bad private bets: this is the culmination of privatized gains, socialized risk.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Forecasts for the Economy and Financial Markets 2010-2012 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Paul_Mladjenovic
Good or bad, everyone likes a forecast. Usually, forecasters like to issue them at the end or the beginning of the year but I thought that now would be a good time to review past forecasts and issue some new or updated ones.
Entering the fray with forecasting can be a dicey pursuit. No matter how confident you are about the outcome of your prognosticating, the unknown variables can pop up at any time. As much as possible, I embark on forecasts that I believe are not an “if”…but a “when”. I may get it wrong in the short-term but the final outcome is in the long-term.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Corporate America’s $2 Trillion Cash Pile, Let’s Kick Some Corporate Ass / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
$2,000,000,000,000 is a lot of cash.
That’s about how much America’s 500 largest NON-FINANCIAL companies have on their books. This is up about $500,000,000,000 from last year as 2010 has been very, very good for corporate profits, which are growing at a 36% pace this year and we’ll get a better insight into that this earnings season. Right now, our biggest problem is a lack of faith in the economy. As we noted last week, temp hiring is near records but real hiring is not there at all - companies are using what turnaround there is to save up for the next rainy day.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Investors Profiting From Economic Schizophrenia / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Martin_D_Weiss
If last week’s massive price swings in the U.S. stock market proved anything, it’s that the world’s investors are massively confused.
They have every right to be. After all, even the world’s most respected authorities — the experts with access to every scrap of data an economist could ever want — are talking out of both sides of their mouths.
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