Category: Financial Markets 2010
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Dow Jones, Crude Oil, Euro, Sterling and Gold Market Updates / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Ajit_Singh
When you're trading short term timeframes it's important to have a check of what the long term timeframes are doing as somewhere along the line they interlink with one another providing critical levels and trading triggers.
We've been catching the short term moves with ease last week using our short term timeframes and with our TMS Strategy which has been catching some nice position signal moves using longer term timeframes.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Stocks SP500 Index, Crude Oil and Gold Trading at Resistance Levels / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last week we saw the financial market including commodities move higher which was great to see. But the recent run up has brought both equities and commodities to their key resistance levels. With Gold, Oil and the SP500 trading near key resistance points we will most likely have some sharp movements this week so buckle up tight!
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Stock Market Bulls Watch for a Higher High Whilst Bears Growl For New Lows / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Disappointing U.S. retail sales data on Friday failed to dent the stock market as it closed higher on the day and the week at Dow 10,211, up 279 (9,932). From the start of the week the stock market trended lower into an early week low at just below 9,800 that was followed by a volatile uptrend right into Friday's close.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Stock Market Plunge on Disappointing Jobs Data, What's Next? / News_Letter / Financial Markets 2010
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterJune 6th, 2010 Issue #34 Vol. 4
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Financial Markets Without Guardrails / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Fred_Sheehan
Two significant changes are pushing markets towards a shakeout.
First, the bond markets are showing strains. For instance, both investment-grade and junk-rated companies are finding it more difficult to issue bonds. To put this in today's context, the momentum money that has pushed asset prices up since the spring of 2009 assumes, or believes, that governments will do whatever is necessary to sustain the upward march. Now there are doubts.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
SPX, Gold and Crude Oil on the VERGE of Something BIG / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Market volatility continues to shake things up making it profitable for traders who are quick to spotting key reversal points, manage risk and taking profits before it evaporates. On Tuesday we saw the market go up and down more than I have seen in a long time… It moved over 5% as it trended up then down in 1% increments as shown in the chart below. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Stock Market On the Edge of Something Very Big, Crash? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
U.S. stocks lost their gains Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke voiced
cautious optimism about the economy and the central bank's Beige Book also noted modest
improvement.
"Everything is universally moving in the right direction, but we already knew that," said Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial of the Fed's June report, which noted improvement across all 12 districts.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Is Commodities Plunge Signaling a Stocks Bear Market? / Commodities / Financial Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes: The biggest slump in commodity prices since 2008 is undermining confidence on Wall Street and fueling speculation that a new bear market has been born.
Despite forecasts for accelerating economic growth and higher prices, commodities, with the notable exception of gold, are taking a big hit.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Sovereign Debt Concerns Continue to Hit Stocks and Commodity Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Douglas_V._Gnazzo
Global Economy - Sovereign debt concerns hang above the market like the sword of Damocles, ready to exact its deadly toll. With complete disregard for the inherent power of public speaking, a Hungarian diplomat stated there was a good chance that Hungary will be the next Greece; and that Hungary may default on their sovereign debt.
Needless to say, this did not calm an already roiled market. The contemplation of defaulting on sovereign debt seems to be in vogue. This is a warning of things to come: whether true or not, just the fact it was said depicts a faulty mindset towards debt repayment. The population at large, including the business and financial community, has been misled to believe in Keynesian voodoo economics.
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Monday, June 07, 2010
What is leading to the Global Markets Sell Off? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Dhaval_Shah
Markets behaviour in past few days have been quite chaotic and strangling, leaving investors completely clueless.Everything under the sun(except Dollar & Gold) have been falling off the cliff. Take any currency, it is falling ferociously against dollar and loosing value against Gold.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Sovereign Debt Crisis Fails to Deliver Knock Out Punch to Stock Markets / News_Letter / Financial Markets 2010
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterMay 31st, 2010 Issue #33 Vol. 4
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Stock Market Plunge on Disappointing Jobs Data, What's Next? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Dow closed the week sharply lower on Friday at 9932 against last weeks close of 10,136. The stock market had exhibited a tightening of its trading range for most of the week following a bounce off an early week low of 10,014 into a rally peak of 10,315 Thursday, as the market marked time ahead of the Fridays Jobs Report that disappointed market participants and resulted in a 333 point drop on the day right from the opening gap down and trend lower all the way into the close.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Safe Havens are Shining but are Stocks About to Rocket Higher? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It was another extremely volatile week sharp rallies followed by sharp sell offs. Fear is in no doubt controlling the market. The bulls and bears continue to battle it out. The charts below cover some important trends and market internals I pay attention to on a daily basis.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Bad Jobs Data and Hungary Debt Crisis Triggers Market Failure / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Employment Situation: Less than meets the eye. Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector employment changed little (+41,000). Manufacturing, temporary help services, and mining added jobs, while construction employment declined. The unemployment rate edged down to 9.7 percent.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Investor Reality to Protect Profits, Delusion to Court Disaster / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“…Can you imagine if during the cold war the Soviet Union had undermined all the countries, it would have been the start of World War III. And yet we are letting investment banks do the same thing. We are letting investment banks undermine the finances, cast doubt on the credibility, create civil unrest, riots, death. It's the kind of thing that in a military frontal assault would be repelled, but somehow we let Wall Street attack the countries and do nothing about it. I am glad that someone is finally standing up, and I expect that Merkel will be joined by others. I am not against speculation. Let speculators put up some money, let them do (it) on an exchange, let the pricing be transparent, let them do variation margin... This no money down shadow credit default swap market is completely destructive. A little hyperbolic but you get it.”James G. Rickards, King World News, 5/22/10
Friday, June 04, 2010
A Look at Some Stock Market Echoes and Gold Stocks / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Clif_Droke
I'd like to return to a theme we were discussing last week concerning our expectations for this year's upcoming 4-year cycle bottom. We touched on this in a recent commentary and we'll discuss it some more here. The theme I'd like to emphasize is that in years when the 4-year cycle bottoms (which always occurs in late September/early October) and the stock market takes a significant hit prior to the 4-year cycle time low, the bottom is in most cases made well before the late September/early October period and the market usually ends up outperforming for the rest of the year. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Gold & SP500 Low Risk Trading Setups / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It’s been a very exciting week so far for gold and SP500 traders as we take advantage of mass crowd behavior. Trading against the masses can be very profitable during certain situations but more times than not it’s a great way to lose money which is why I focus on taking the opposite side of these moves.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
GOLD:CRB The Most Important Chart / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Brian_Bloom
Right now, in my view, the chart below is the most important chart in the book. It is a distilled proxy for investor confidence, world-wide, in the integrity of the financial system.The ratio of the gold price to the commodities index can be found at http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui , courtesy stockcharts.com. When the chart comes up on your screen, enter the following in the space marked “symbol” $GOLD:$CRB
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Adapting to Systemic Dysfunction, Every Investment is a Pure Gamble -PERIOD / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Joseph_Russo
Same As It Ever Was With the possible exception of Black Swan events, and beyond the amplification and speed with which share prices can persistently collapse following negative episodes of such, there is no difference in navigating markets now (amidst a heightened state of systemic dysfunction) relative to doing so at any other point in market history.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Australia Holds Rates at 4.5%; Canada is First G-7 Country to Hike / Interest-Rates / Financial Markets 2010
By: Mike_Shedlock
Australia may have seen its last rate hike for quite some time. Today the Reserve Bank of Australia Holds Rate at 4.5% to Gauge Market Turmoil.