Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Big Bullish Elliott Wave Picture for Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: David_Banister
Back in late February 2009 I decided enough was enough, and I stuck my neck out and called for a massive bull market in stocks. I based this prediction purely on Elliott Wave patterns I identified as bottoming and the sentiment gauges were off the charts bearish. We had not seen sentiment that negative since the 2002 lows. The re-tracement of the SP 500 over the eight odd years was a textbook Elliott Wave pattern, and frankly I think I was the only person who noticed the significance of the 666 low as it related to the 1974 SP 500 lows to 1999/2000 highs. Why was that 666 number so significant and a key indicator of a major bear market cycle low? Well the reason is that marked a clear wave 2 elliott wave bottom both in price, and sentiment, and time all at once.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
QE2 and Earnings Boost Stock Market Sentiment / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
European markets open firmer today and continued to grind higher all morning after minutes from the Federal reserve showed policy makers are prepared to add further QE. Intel also added to the positive tone by reporting Q2 profit of 52c versus expectations for a 50c print. Gross margins came inline for the quarter but guidance was up for Q3. ASML followed suit this morning and rallied 3 percent after saying Q3 profit rose to €268.5m beating broker estimates for €247 million. Fellow Euro tech names STMicoelectronics and Infineon are better by 3 percent and 4 percent respectively in sympathy.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
China’s Ongoing IPO Stock Market Boom / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Tony_Sagami
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, two of America’s best known billionaires, were in China last week for some business and charitable work.
Buffet has a large investment in Chinese automaker BYD Company, and Microsoft has offices all over China as well as a research center. Both, however, were there to talk to some of the richest men and women in China about incorporating philanthropy and charitable giving into their daily lives.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
European Stock Market Investors Bullish Sentiment Hits Nine Year Extreme! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Claus_Vogt
Price-earnings ratios and dividend yields are showing that the stock market is expensive. And my big-picture economic indicators are signaling high recession risks. My liquidity indicators are confirming this recessionary scenario … they’re telling us that stocks are probably on the verge of plunging into a bear market.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Quantitative Easing or Quantitative Looting? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: LewRockwell
Jeff Fisher writes: Governments are spending far more than they could ever hope to collect through taxation.
In order to finance these yawning deficits, governments are borrowing massive amounts of capital from the private sector.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Stock Market October Curse vs Objective Analysis / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: EWI
Over the weekend, I went shopping for Halloween decorations. In the store, one of the clerks was wearing a white T-shirt with a puff-paint rendering of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The line representing prices was the color of blood red, dripping and splashed across the front. When I asked him what it was, he said "the October Curse."
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Intel's Technicals Ahead of Earnings Plus: What to Expect from the Semis / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
After the close of trading Tuesday, Intel (INTC) comes out with its quarterly earnings, which could, or should, provide quite a catalyst (positive or negative) for the stock and its semiconductor sector and perhaps the market in general.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Unequal Global Trade Competition, Trichet Talks Tough at High Noon / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Anti-Claud is coming to town!
You’d better not print, you’d better not ease you’d better not contract or your wages will freeze - Jean Claude Trichet is coming to town… The EU’s Central Banker has a lunch meeting at the NY Economic Club and there is no one who knows better when Bernanke’s sleeping and when the recovery is fake, so we’d better pay attention, for the country’s sake! THIS is the most powerful banker in the World, not the hollow Bankster puppet we have setting US policy, and Trichet has fought easy money tooth and nail -even as the US embraced it this year.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Markets “Risk Off” Ahead of FOMC Minutes and Intel Corporate Earnings / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
With bond markets and banks closed for the Columbus Day Holiday yesterday Equity markets had their lowest volume day of the year with the S&P future trading in a 2 point range for a majority of the session. We did have a tick lower at when Janet Yellen (new Vice Chair of the Fed) strayed from her usual uber-dovish line made some comments regarding Fed Policy and Risk Assets saying that it was “conceivable that accommodative monetary policy could provide tinder for a build up of leverage and excessive risk taking” . The dollar managed a small bounce (+.45 percent) and commodities were mixed (Crude -.9 percent, Gold/Copper +.3 percent).
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Stock Market VIX Breaks Down...Implications... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
You're not going to love this if you like ACTION. You won't be seeing big swings from day to day when you have a VIX in the teens. It simply means the volatility of the market is basically gone for the short, if not, mid-term. Larger day to day swings are far less likely, thus, you have to find a way to be patient and understand the best way to play this market, which is to simply to find the best base set-ups and wait for them to make their move.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Stock Market Narrow, Lackluster Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices started out on a flat note, but the path was interesting. The day started out with a little surge to the upside. They backed off, tested support successfully, and then ran to new rally highs, reaching 2037 on the Nasdaq 100 and 1168.68 on the S&P 500. The Dow reached 11,030.50 for its high.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Meaningless Market Monday - Rethinking that Round Earth Idea / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
What if the World is flat?
It sure looks flat. You have to go to space to see that it's round, even in an airplane it looks pretty flat, doesn't it? Well, fiat currencies are like that too. We talk about Quantitative Easing as if the World is flat because Americans (who are trained to be self-centered to the point of Xenophobia from birth) don't think of their connections to other counties on this planet. To understand the American investor is to look at this map and understand that it is not a joke...
Monday, October 11, 2010
Stock Market Emulating 1930's Crash Pattern / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Captain_Hook
Damn The Economic Torpedoes – It’s Fiat Nirvana Or Bust - Little doubt can exist US central planners intend to go the full nine yards in attempting to overt a repeat of Japan over the past twenty years. We know this because the Fed told us in it’s last meeting it’s prepared to do anything to avoid such an outcome, which for them means they are willing to turn the screws on the printing presses without limit. Hence the title attempting to capture the condition our condition is in, damn the torpedoes – it’s fiat nirvana or bust – where just about every observer on the planet thinks such an outcome is now baked in the cake. This is of course a very dangerous condition sentiment wise, which we will expand on below. However for now it looks as though monetary authorities will pull it off, as many believe the markets are still in a position to accommodate such thinking.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Stock Market Elliott Wave Analysis, Wave 3 Down?, and Quantitative Easing / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: JD_Rosendahl
A Reader Asks All Word Questions at the Right Time
In the short time of running my own website I've received some great, interesting and well thought out questions, comments and data from readers. It's one of the things I truly enjoy, as it serves as a collective body of work from like minds with similar interests.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
QE2 And Corporate Earnings Are The Key This Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
U.S. stocks gained Friday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 11,000 for the first time since before the May 6 crash, as worse than estimated jobs data raised speculation the Federal Reserve will enact stimulus measures. When the much awaited macro hit the tape, confusion reigned and persisted for the rest of the afternoon. The headline number was weaker (-95k v -5k cons) and initially sent markets lower, but wait, surely a worse number makes QE more likely? Up we went. The underlying NFP detail was mixed; the private payroll gain in September was close to expectations (+64,000), and there were upward revisions to July/Aug (+36,000 net), but, there was a very sharp 84,000 drop in state and local government jobs (primarily teachers).
Monday, October 11, 2010
Global Stocks Set to Surge Higher / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Indices across the world rose last week in what looks to be the beginning of a historic stock rally.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 1.6% last week, while the overseas developed-world large-caps - represented by the Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US exchange-traded fund (NYSE: VEU) - rose 2.4%. Meanwhile, the iShares Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: EEM) rose 1.7%, the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (NYSE: FXI) rose 3%, the iShares MSCI Switzerland Index fund (NYSE: EWL) rose 3%, and the iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund (NYSE: EWA) rose 3.6%.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
Should the U.S. be Classified as an Emerging Market for Investment Purposes? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Trader_Mark
An interesting debate on CNBC on whether the U.S. should now be classified as an emerging market for investment purposes? While easy to laugh it off, the country is exhibiting many of the risk factors traditionally correlated with developing markets. For example:
Sunday, October 10, 2010
US Stock Market Indices Continue Their Upward Trend / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Peter_Navarro
The good news: The US market indices continue their upward trend last week as the Dow Jones industrial average broke above the 11,000 mark for the first time in over five months. The bad news: this latest market uptrend appears not to be driven by good economic news but rather by an emerging "carry trade" driven by the easy money policies of the US and a number of other countries around the world, including Japan.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
Stocks Stealth Bull Market Closes Back Above Dow 11,000 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Today's a great day for numerologists - 10th day of the 10th Month of the 10th Year. What happened on past such days ? Apparently nothing!
The Dow on Friday closed above 11,000 at 11,006 for the first time since just before the May 6th Flash Crash. Off course no one saw the flash crash coming, but subsequently many of a perma mindset have eagerly anticipated its re-occurrence all the way back to above Dow 11k.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
Stock Market Weekend Review / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The S&P 500 is at a crossroads as the price structure pierces above its resistance line off of the October 2007 high (1576.09), which cuts across the price axis at 1158.68. A sustained hurdle of the 3-year down trendline could (should) have significant near-term bullish implications for the SPX, and would in all likelihood be heading for a revisit of the April 2010 high at 1219.80 -- or another 5% beyond current prices.
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