Category: Financial Markets 2010
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Stock Market Breakout Needs Follow Through / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Break out
Now we need some follow through...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Gold, Commodities, Stocks and Financial Markets Mega-analysis / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The world’s attention is focused on Greece’s sovereign debt problems – a budget deficit that is 12.7% of gross domestic product. Consequently, Greece needs to sell 53 billion euros of debt this year, the equivalent of about 20% of its gross domestic product.
This has caused the yield on Greek bonds to rise to 7.16%, which in turn lowers bond prices (value). For 2009, Greek bonds had a negative return of 0.76%. The spread between Greek bonds and German bunds is about 300 basis points.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Stock and Commodity Forecasts and Analysis for ALL Major Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
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Even if you invest mostly in a specific region or sector, market moves in stocks, bonds, currencies, gold, silver, crude oil or others around the world can have a huge impact on your portfolio.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Stock and Commodity Market Investors Heading for Six Months of Hell / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
In last week’s column, I reviewed the profits you should have bagged the week earlier. Total now, since March of last year, assuming you followed all of my suggestions: 11 closed out trades, including 9 winners — with gains of as much as 91.7% — one breakeven trade, and one loser. Not bad for just over 10 months.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Stocks One More Thurst Lower Before a Multi-Week Rally / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Last week ended on a positive note with stocks and commodities pushing higher into Friday’s close. The market overall is looking very unstable here and this week I figure there will be some big price movement.
Below are the charts on the DIA, GLD, SLV, UNG and USO funds so you can get a feel for the trend and additionally what I am looking for this week with respect to prices.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Financial Markets Review and Inflation Mega-trend Ebook Update / News_Letter / Financial Markets 2010
The Market Oracle Newsletter February 6th, 2010 Issue #9 Vol. 4 Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, February 15, 2010
Commodity Pendulum Swings and U.S. Treasury Long-Bond Futures Inaccurate Chart Trend / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Below is a chart of the 30 year Treasury bond (future) as it is reported on all charting web sites. The chart does not seem to have a discernible pattern but rather to be what the random walk theorists believe – a meaningless collection of zigs and zags with no predictive power.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
China Tries to Avoid Stock Market Bubble by Tightening Bank Lending / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
China sees a bubble ahead and is trying to avoid it – is that such a bad thing?
Isn’t this what we expect Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve to do here at home – take clear and decisive action to drain off excess liquidity in the economy before inflation takes hold?
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
U.S. Treasuries Hit Hard, Can the Stock Market Rally Continue? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Justice Isn’t Blind, It’s Unconscious - (Bloomberg) It is so widely accepted that Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s balance sheet was bogus that even former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson can say it in his new memoir. And still, the government hasn’t found anyone who did anything wrong at the failed investment bank.
How could that be, 17 months after Lehman collapsed and sent the global credit crisis into overdrive? While Congress and the White House dither about reforming the U.S. financial system, the wheels of justice are grinding so slowly, if at all, that it seems there’s no appetite in Washington for holding Wall Street executives accountable for anything.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Stock and Commodity Markets Caution Reigns / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The January market dip was focused on profits taking. Good results in various sectors brought selling, but not sell-offs. It is evidence that caution still reigns at the start of the new decade and isn’t really saying much else, for now. It does indicate wealth preservation after the ‘08 Crunch is, and likely will continue to be, the focus of “Boomers” who are nearing the end of their working lives. How long they are good with clipping low interest coupons is the next question on the table.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Mario’s February Stock and Financial Market Takes Plus A Taste Of China / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
There is no substitute for the daily hours of studying, researching and watching the markets. While it is analytical, you also develop a feel for it that's hard to explain, "get in the groove" so to speak. That’s just when the market will make a fool of you and takes lots of your carefully strategized money. With those caveats in mind, if you are long stocks right now, you're basically out of your mind. WHY would you be long stocks right now? The markets are correcting downward lead by the China/HK markets because valuations after this past year's rise are too high relative to overall economic health.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Gold Price About to Trend Higher or Lower? / Commodities / Financial Markets 2010
A lot of folks are calling in and e-mailing our company in regards to the gold market, so I thought I would create a new video showing you where we stand..
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Stocks Rally on E.U. Olive Branch For Greece / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
US stocks rallied Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones back above 10,000, as prospects for a bailout of Greece eased concern that deteriorating government finances will derail the global economic recovery. Coca-Cola (+3.6%) reported 4th quarter profit that met expectations. China and India saw better than expected volume growth. Caterpillar (+6.0%) and Monsanto (+3.0%) on broker upgrades. NYSE Euronext (+5.4%) after posting better 4th quarter results due to derivative trading lifting revenues and cutting costs. MetLife (+4.2%) may use more stock to fund more than half of the planned $15bn of an AIG life insurance unit. Airlines advanced after Continental Airlines (+8.6%) and Southwest Airlines (3.9%) led the six biggest US carriers to their first collective increase in monthly traffic since May 2008.
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Honest Money Financial Markets Wrap, Gold, Silver Stocks and Commodities / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The following excerpt is from the latest full-length market wrap report, available only at the Honest Money Gold & Silver Report website. All major markets are covered: stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities, with the emphasis on the precious metals. There is a lot of information on gold and silver, not only from an investment point of view, but also from its position as being the mandated monetary system of our Constitution - Silver and Gold Coin, as in Honest Weights and Measures.
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
The Inflation Mega-Trend Ebook, Economic and Financial Market Forecasts For 2010 and Beyond / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The NEW FREE Inflation Mega-Trend ebook presents in-depth analysis and and precise concluding forecasts for the key economic indicators of inflation, interest rates and economic growth which have been applied to a range of financial markets and investment trends that further conclude towards precise forecasts.
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Stock Market, Dollar and Commodity Charts of the Week / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
This week's Charts of the Week cover the overall equity market via the S&P 500 and then look at the dollar (via its ETF, the UUP) and commodities such as gold, silver and agriculture that are impacted by the dollar (via their ETFs such as the GLD, GDX, SLV, DBA and DBC).
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Stocks and Gold Slice Through Support / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The S&P 500 sliced through its January lows yesterday, killing any notion that this latest drop is just a brief dip with which to buy. The next lines of support are the November low (1,040) and then the October low (1,020).
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Fear, Gold and the U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The U.S. dollar was up last week against the euro out of fear of how debt problems in Greece and elsewhere in Europe will be resolved, and as a result gold had a tough week.
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Stock Market Searches for Direction on Rudderless Monday / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
A choppy whippy day but US stocks rose Friday, with the Dow Jones erasing a 167-point drop in the final hour of trading, on speculation the European Union may propose a solution for Greece’s budget deficit. Oil, gold and copper rebounded, and the dollar pared its gain. The late day rally has been put down to short covering.
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Monday, February 08, 2010
U.S. Joins Global Debt Bomb Club / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Jon D. Markman writes: The most important fundamental development of the week was not any of a slew of economic reports at all but the new federal budget proposal released by the White House. And it was a doozy: The Obama Administration proposed to spend $3.8 trillion, with $1.6 trillion on the equivalent of the national credit card.