Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Saturday, April 02, 2011
Stock Market Confirmed Uptrend / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Tony_Caldaro
The SPX/DOW confirmed a new uptrend this week. The uptrend will be counted as Major wave 3 of Primary wave III. This uptrend should last into June with a targeted range of SPX 1440-1462. For the week economic reports were mixed: ten improving and nine declining. On the upbeat we had personal income/spending, PCE prices, pending home sales, auto sales, the monetary base and leading wbase, the WLEI, the payrolls report, and the unemployment rate declined.
Saturday, April 02, 2011
Stock Market Strong Week...Friday Reversal? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
This is the question we have to ask ourselves tonight. The market had a very nice week with today being the day we tested back up to resistance on both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The old high on the S&P 500 being 1344 with some resistance at 1332 first. We hit 1337 today right in the middle. The Nasdaq had strong horizontal resistance off a gap down at 2800 to 2808. We hit 2802 today on the highs. So in essence, both indexes hit their strong resistance levels today. The reason this is so important to look at is because we want to see what happened after resistance was hit.
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Saturday, April 02, 2011
Excess Liquidity & Cheap Money Runs Rampant on Wall Street / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: Dian_L_Chu
If one studies markets trading during the week, one thing becomes glaringly obvious-- there is too much cheap money sloshing around markets these days (See Chart Below). You no longer have healthy, two-sided markets in most asset classes.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Strong Corporate Earnings Mean a Strong Stock Market, Right? / Stock-Markets / Corporate Earnings
By: EWI
Earnings season is upon us, so it's a good time to delve into how earnings affect stock prices. Here's an excerpt from Bob Prechter's February 2010 Elliott Wave Theorist. It considers the conventional belief in a cause/effect relationship between earnings and stock prices. EWI's 50-page Independent Investor eBook includes the entire report on the effect 10 different economic events, political events, and monetary and fiscal policies have on the market. You can download it now for free.
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Friday, April 01, 2011
The Fed Still Can’t End Stimulus Efforts! / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: Sy_Harding
The strong jobs report for March has expectations rising that the Fed will dial back its QE2 stimulus right away, and begin raising interest rates soon.
Even prior to the jobs report the president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, and a voting member of the Fed’s rate-setting committee, said he expects a “big upward movement” in inflation, making it “certainly possible” that the Fed will raise interest rates this year. He said the so-called Taylor Rule, a method of predicting interest rates based on inflation, points to a sizable 0.75% increase in the Fed Funds rate if the rate of inflation he expects shows up.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Will 1970s-Style Inflation Derail the Stocks Bull Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Inflation can adversely affect corporate profits, household discretionary spending, and stock prices. Rising costs for raw materials have a dampening effect on profits. Increasing costs of food and energy begin to account for larger and larger portions of a household’s disposable income. From an investment perspective, when the annual inflation rate jumped significantly between 1971 and 1974, stock market (SPY) returns eventually suffered as shown below.
Friday, April 01, 2011
The Higher the Dow, the More Dangerous It Becomes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Bill_Bonner
The Dow went up more than 70 points yesterday. The higher it goes, the more dangerous it becomes.
What’s the matter with this downturn? Shouldn’t it lower stock prices? Shouldn’t it empty tables at fancy restaurants? Shouldn’t it close down some of these luxury shops and make it easy to upgrade to business class?
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Friday, April 01, 2011
Stocks Should Bolt Higher, Now! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Bob_Clark
Where have all the the trillions gone? The Fat Boys have nicked them, one by one. There are dark forces about.
They don't skulk in the shadows, but live in the light. They thrive in a time of ignorance, greed, sloth and complacency. They are seen as the light. The Illuminati. They are the chosen ones. They are our financial leaders.
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Friday, April 01, 2011
Five Reasons To Consider Locking In Some Stock Market Gains / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: David_Grandey
Here are your “Into The End Of The Quarter” Trend Channel charts.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
U.S. Dollar and Stock Market Trend Relationship, Currency and Real Wars / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This analysis seeks to determine the impact of the USD index on the stock market trend, which forms part of a series of analysis that is working towards formulating a detailed trend forecast for the stock market for the remainder of 2011.
The consensus view is that a rising US Dollar is bearish for the stock market whilst a falling Dollar is bullish. The below graph illustrates that more or less this has been the trend relationship between the two markets for the past 10 years.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Anne Hathaway and Automatic Stock Trading / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Robert_Murphy
A humorous financial story making the rounds concerns the apparent relationship between media mentions of the actress Anne Hathaway and jumps in the stock price of shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
The presumed culprits are algorithmic trading programs, which raises the question, What does Austrian economics have to say about computers buying and selling shares of stock?
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
A Lesson from Charlie Sheen (about the Stock Market) / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jared_Levy
Maybe I am a fan of Charlie's because of his role in the movie Wall Street, which motivated my career in finance. Perhaps it's the fact that I have enjoyed his films and his comedy.
I have to admit that Mr. Sheen has been accused of (and is guilty of) actions that I do not approve of or condone, but what I have found interesting is undeniable about the man -- he speaks his truth! (As irrational as it may seem or offensive as it may be.)
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Are Stocks and Commodities About To Start Another Rally? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Over the past couple months everyone seems to have been preparing for a sharp market correction. Crazy part is that the SP500 dropped about 10% from the high and that is a typical bull market correction. The thing is… the stock market has a way of slowly unfolding making it look and feel minor, then before you know it, the correction is over and it’s back to an uptrend. That is kind of how this one unfolded. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Extend and Pretend is Wall Street Banks Friend / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2011
By: James_Quinn
“We now have an economy in which five banks control over 50 percent of the entire banking industry, four or five corporations own most of the mainstream media, and the top one percent of families hold a greater share of the nation’s wealth than any time since 1930. This sort of concentration of wealth and power is a classic setup for the failure of a democratic republic and the stifling of organic economic growth.” - Jesse – http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Solar Sun Spot Activity and the Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: John_Hampson
In recent weeks we have seen surprisingly high solar activity, with sunspot readings over 100 on multiple days, shown below, red line.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Indian Stock Market Particularly Uncorrelated / Stock-Markets / India
By: Submissions
Jan Kaska writes: Living in the correlated world, we were particularly struck when we saw a correlation chart between India and MSCI World turning deeply negative for the first time since 1996. While S&P is up 4% since the start of the year, Sensex has dived into deep red -8% territory.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Stocks Stealth Bull Market and Elliott Wave Theory Analysis / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory
By: Nadeem_Walayat
My unorthodox interpretation of Elliott Wave Theory has proved highly accurate for the duration of the stocks stealth bull market from its birth in March 2009 in gauging the probable trend for the Dow for the past 2 years, in that there are no hard and fast rules, no tenants, no absolutes that the price must obey as per theory, because in the real world the price action is the master not theoretically what the price action should do which is why over zealot proponents of elliott wave theory have missed the whole stocks bull market, instead of which the theory is just that, a theory, so should bend or even break in the face of real time price action and not engage in the exercise of ever expanding hindsight based pattern fixing.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Copper Price and the Stock Market Trend / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Copper is an important industrial metal which can be treated as a leading economic indicator for economic activity that extends beyond the performance of the mining sector stocks and can be expected to act as an oscillating leading / lagging indicator for the overall stock market trend, the degree to which this analysis seeks to determine.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
How Individual Investors Can Beat the Big Boys / Stock-Markets / Investing 2011
By: Casey_Research
Wouldn't it be great if there were a sector where you have the edge over the Goldman Sachs of the world?
A market where small players can outmaneuver the big guys - and where having knowledge of that market gives you a distinct advantage over day traders?
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Stock Market Bulls Get Benefit of Doubt, Though End of QE2 Concerning / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
James Bullard, President of the Fed’s St. Louis Bank, is speaking in Prague today. According to Bloomberg:
Read full article... Read full article...He said four areas in particular are raising “macroeconomic uncertainty.” These included turmoil in the Middle East and north Africa, the natural disaster in Japan, “the U.S. fiscal situation and the possibility of a government shutdown,” and Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has given no indication the central bank will deviate from its plan to buy bonds through June to spur economic growth and reduce 8.9 percent unemployment.