Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Cheap Valuations Spur Bulls to Buy Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
With the major stock market indices oversold on almost every metric and the S&P 500 finding critical support around the 1100, European markets have pushed ahead today. Valuations have reached a 16 month low at 12.5 times earnings and we all know what happed in March 2009! Now equity analysts are raising their earnings estimates for U.S. companies at the fastest rate since at least 2004 just as stocks post the biggest losses in 16 months. Profit for S&P 500 companies will jump 34 percent in 2010, compared with a projected gain of 27% on March 29, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The revision, the most during any quarter in at least six years, came as lower than forecast home sales, manufacturing and private sector job growth sent the benchmark gauge for American equities down 16% since April 23.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Hedging the Coming Wall Street Apocalypse / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: LewRockwell
Bruce Watson writes: Predictions of the end of civilization are nothing new, but the direst prognosticators have, traditionally, existed on the fringes of society, where their dark visions can be comfortably attributed to an excess of libertarianism or a shortage of Prozac.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Stock Market Plunge Just Part of a Normal Pattern? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Although the stock market plunge last week was certainly unsettling, history and a slew of positive leading indicators show that this may just be part of a normal pattern with better news ahead.
Stocks were hammered on Tuesday as a negative revision to an economic report out of China and fears over European bank funding set off a global firestorm of selling. A very weak consumer confidence report didn't help matters.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
U.S. Stocks Death Cross, Heading Down, Deeper and Down / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Bob_Kirtley
After an impressive rally of over 80% from the lows made in March 2009, the US stock market looks ripe for another plunge south. This rally was never sustainable, rather than being built on solid fundamentals and a genuine economic and business recovery, it was merely the result of multi-billion dollar bailouts, near zero interest rates and the feeling that no matter how bad things get, the government will save the day and stop any Armageddon scenario.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Stock and Gold Market Analysis for Dow, Nasdaq, Bonds, IBM, AAPL and BIDU / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: JD_Rosendahl
The stock market finished last week on a down note. It couldn't find any legs all week long, as disappointing economic data rolled out all week, and uncertainty filled the market place. Even Biggs had concerns and sold stocks.
$INDU: The DOW traded down to its prior down trend line. The RSI has moved into oversold territory. There's nothing technically bullish so far on the DOW. The 50 and 200 day MAs are about to cross, which often can pull price in that direction, so maybe a little bounce next week, however, It still looks like this leg down has not finished.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Wall Street Stock Market Death Cross Signals Recession? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Pravda
The Standard & Poor's 500 50-day moving average stands poised to cross beneath the 200-day moving average. To those in the financial industry, this is known as a "death cross", and it is a very powerful indicator that we could be entering a bearish period. So is this yet another sign that we are on the verge of a recession? Well, anyone who has spent much time trying to interpret financial charts will tell you how inexact that science can be. Financial markets can be wildly unpredictable, and there is always a tremendous amount of manipulation going on behind the scenes.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Stock Markets Treading Water as the U.S. Celebrates / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
U.S. stocks dropped again Friday, pre the holiday weekend, condemning the Dow to its longest losing streak since the 2008 leg of the financial crisis, on concern the economic rebound is slowing after companies added fewer jobs than consensus expectations and factory orders slumped. General Electric, Caterpillar and Bank of America all shed at least 1.2% to lead the Dow to a seventh straight decline. Elsewhere Equity Residential, the largest publicly traded U.S. apartment landlord, fell 24% after Citigroup downgraded the shares. Airlines also retreated while drug makers rallied on takeover speculation.
Monday, July 05, 2010
The Double-edged Sword of Financial Fear Stalks Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Clif_Droke
Worries over the fragility of the economic recovery continues to haunt investors and dominate the new headlines. The latest headlines point to a widespread expectation of a double-dip recession by later this year. The latest round of worries are focused on potential European debt troubles, soft unemployment numbers and the latest round of U.S. economic numbers that proved to be disappointing to investors.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, July 05, 2010
Stock Market Forecast to Head Back Down to 2009 Lows / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Martin_D_Weiss
I trust you’ve had a great Independence Day!
In four days, we will have published 1,776 editions of Money and Markets — one for every year between the birth of Christ and the birth of our nation.
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Sunday, July 04, 2010
Was S&P 1220 The Stocks Secular Bear Market Rally Top? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
Very Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles are down and if they make their lows when expected, the bear market which started in October 2007 should continue until about 2014-2015.
SPX: Intermediate trend - The index made an intermediate top at 1220 and is now in a confirmed intermediate downtrend.
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Sunday, July 04, 2010
Stock Market Support Broken, More Pain Ahead SP500 at 900? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Richard_Shaw
The S&P 500 (proxies SPY and IVV) clearly broke key support yesterday and today. The index also now has a pattern of lower lows and lower highs. The price has been below its 200-day average for weeks now, with only a short peak above in June.
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Sunday, July 04, 2010
Gold Charts, Stocks and Bond Market Crash, Currency Wars and Financial Coup d'état / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Jesse
If there is a stock crash, all asset classes will suffer liquidation for a period of time, except perhaps for treasuries, and chart formations will get tossed out the window. But at some time after the primary crash, the currency is devalued, and bonds are taken out and beaten.
Crashes are low probability events, but need to be accounted for in your planning. I do that by hedging my positions with some shorts, and relying more on bullion than stocks during riskier periods.
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Sunday, July 04, 2010
Stock Market SPX Breaks September Low as VIX Spikes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
FDIC Friday on vacation. - The FDIC Failed Bank List announced no new bank closures this week. FDIC employees took an extended holiday.
Stocks, Commodities Drop on Jobs, Factory Orders Data
U.S. stocks fell, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average extending its longest slide since the financial crisis of 2008, and commodities slumped as data on jobs and factory orders added to concern the economic rebound is slowing. The 10-year Treasury yield held below 3 percent.
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Stocks Bull Market Correction or Bear Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
My primary focus at this time remains the UK economy and housing market so as to conclude in a multi-year UK house prices trend forecast and ebook by mid August 2010.
However in response to requests and price action here is an interim analysis of the stock market:
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
Max Keiser on Economic Bloggers Branded Heretics as Keynesians Prepare for Monster Money Printing / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Videos
On this edition of the Keiser Report, Max and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of economic bloggers branded heretics as the high priests of economics are busy preparing "monster" money-printing and refusing to recognize housing bubble "time bombs". In the second half of the show, Max talks to Josh Brown of TheReformedBroker.com about hexopolies and financial reform.
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Key Financial and Commodity Markets Pointing to More Economic Pain Ahead / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Bryan_Rich
In the past two weeks, we’ve seen China de-peg its currency from the dollar, the UK roll out historical fiscal austerity measures and Japan release details on a plan to tackle its massive debt load.
The knee-jerk market reaction to these events was positive … i.e. interpreted as a positive influence on economic growth and a bullish cue for risk appetite.
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
Stocks Bear Market Triggered 90% Probability Target / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Employment fell for the first month this year. -
(Bloomberg) Employment fell in June for the first time this year, reflecting a drop in federal census workers and a smaller-than-forecast gain in private hiring.
Payrolls declined by 125,000 last month as the government cut 225,000 temporary workers conducting the 2010 census, Labor Department figures in Washington showed today. Economists projected a decline of 130,000 payrolls, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey. Employment at companies rose 83,000. The jobless rate fell to 9.5 percent from 9.7 percent as the labor force shrank.
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
Stock Market Bears In Full Control.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
It's a rare time indeed when the major daily index charts stay oversold. When RSI's hit 30 and stochastic's hit 7 across the board and we go lower you know you're in a bear market. This is what we dealt with today. Extremely oversold on the daily charts, not the 60-minute charts but the daily charts. That indeed unusual except when you're in a truly bearish scenario. After today's action I think it's pretty clear to all that things are in bad shape from both a fundamental and a technical perspective. The futures were flat going in to the big jobs report. Everyone was anticipating something good to come out of left field to help the bullish case come alive once again. They didn't get it. The numbers were not good. The private sector was anticipating job creation to the tune of 100k. Instead it got 83k. The unemployment level fell to 9.5%.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
Will Q2 Earnings Create a Stock Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Sy_Harding
The stock market is down 16% since its April peak, getting close to a decline of 20%, the threshold of entering a bear market. The S&P 500 is already back to its level of early September, having given back 38% of the entire bull market off the March low last year.
Yet, while investor sentiment has turned more pessimistic, it has held up surprisingly well in the face of the market decline, the steady stream of negative U.S. economic reports, and the continuation of troubling news from Europe and Asia.
Friday, July 02, 2010
This Stock Market Indicator Says the Time to Buy is Near / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Q1_Publishing
My favorite indicator is showing “yellow” and is on the verge of flashing “green.”I know, I know…things look very pretty dreary right now.
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