Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate Soars to 7.5%, Could Trigger Stock Market Flash Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The FDIC Expands the Problem Bank List.
The FDIC Failed Bank List announced four new bank closures this week. The FDIC said in November that its list of “problem” banks -- those at heightened risk of failure -- grew by 3.7 percent to 860 in the third quarter, the most in 17 years. Banks on the confidential list had $379.2 billion in assets as of Sept. 30, down from $403 billion three months earlier.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
My Central Banker Can Beat Up Your Central Banker! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
Another week - another gain for the Dow. The S&P was slightly positive but what’s up with the Nasdaq? It was actually down a few percentage points. While the other indices were rising because the economy was getting better, the Nasdaq was falling because the economy was not getting better. Go figure! Was Bernanke only buying the senior indices this week? Isn’t that all that matters? I think the chart below explains things quite clearly.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Stock Market Elliott Wave Analysis and Forecast for Week Starting 24th Jan / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Tony_Caldaro
The US markets closed out the week with their first weekly decline on friday, after seven consecutive weekly gains. Economic reports were good: seven up, three down, and one flat. Year end earnings reports, thus far, have been better than expected. On the economic front the NY FED, building permits, existing homes sales, leading indicators, weekly jobless claims, the monetary base and the WLEI all improved. Housing starts, the Philly FED and the M1-multiplier was down, while the NAHB housing index remained flat. For the week the SPX/DOW were mixed, and the NDX/NAZ were -2.4%. Asian markets were mostly lower -1.3%, European markets were mixed +0.8%, the Commodity equity group was mixed -1.1%, and the DJ World index was -0.8%. Bonds were -0.6%, Crude slid 3.2%, Gold lost 1.2%, and the USD declined 1.2%. Next week the FED concludes its two day FOMC meeting on wednesday, two days before the Q4 GDP report on friday.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Stock Market Froth Breaks Lower / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
If you're holding the classic froth high P/E stock you had one of the worst weeks of your trading lives. Slaughter's everywhere. If you're holding lower P/E stocks then you had a nothing from nothing week even though the averages sold off decently. Those high beta monsters destroyed the masses as usual. In the end they always end badly for most folks. The masses are buying the most right at the top as they can no longer handle not being in those frothy beasts. They figure they'll make a killing on the earnings report. They bought F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV) and had their careers halted. You deal with -30 and see how it feels.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Gold Moves Lower as Stocks Reach Their Key Resistance Level - What's Next? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Przemyslaw_Radomski
In our previous free essay we’ve mentioned that mining stocks are at a particularly important crossroad, and whichever they decide to move is likely to determine the way for the underlying metals as well. In the following article we will put another factor into the equation – the general stock market.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Stocks fall as Stock Mutual Fund Inflows Resume? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Food Inflation Comes To America: General Mills, Kraft And Kellogg Hike Prices On Selected Food Products
(ZeroHedge) After denying for months that surging food prices will eventually come to the consumer, hoping that instead food companies could absorb the margin drop, sell-side research is finally capitulating to the reality of what is really happening in the retail store. In a note discussing General Mills, Goldman Sachs says the company raised prices on snack bars some 7% last week. Goldman further clarifies that "this reportedly followed a comparable increase taken by K on its snack bars in mid-December. In addition, KFT has reportedly announced a 6% increase on select Planters branded nut products. We expect more price increases to be announced by the food companies in the coming weeks.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Investors Will Have To Learn To Trade! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Sy_Harding
The statistics are eye-opening. The average holding period for stocks is now only three or four months. Presumably that includes those held by mutual funds and etf’s.Is it a new impatience or nervousness on the part of investors and managers? Or is the average holding period being distorted by ‘flash-trading’ firms?
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Friday, January 21, 2011
New Stock Market Highs -New Lows Not Keeping Pace / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Guy_Lerner
Now I know this stuff doesn't matter until it does and I know all those trend followers out there who "just follow price" ignore this kind of thing, but the differential of NYSE new highs minus new lows has not only failed to keep pace with price but it is now breaking down.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Stock Market SPX Correction Looms / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Zeal_LLC
The US stock markets have enjoyed an awesome run since late August, with the flagship S&P 500 stock index (SPX) up 23.7%. Traders have earned huge profits in sectors that leverage general-stock-market gains, including commodities stocks. But as usual after any long and uninterrupted rally, complacency reigns supreme today. Such sentiment is a prime breeding ground for spawning corrections.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Despite The Awakening Beast, Profit & Protect with a Portfolio Essential / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The U.S. Dollar is being devalued by the Federal Reserve…
QE2 is nothing more than devaluation of the dollar for the benefit of only Wall Street Money Center Banks. This is a fraud on the American people who will get nothing from QE2, not jobs, no reduction of their debts, no increase in the values of their homes, no reduction of taxes, no cash, nothing.” Robert McHugh, McHugh’s Weekend Market Newsletter, 1/14/11
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Another Consequence of Zero Interest Rates / Stock-Markets / US Interest Rates
By: Andy_Sutton
Over the past two years, I have visited the topic of the consequences of our new zero rate world on several occasions. Despite media ramblings about ‘free’ money stimulating the economy and igniting another 2005-esque period of time, there have been several very negative consequences. Obviously, pathetic rates of return on what are traditionally referred to, as ‘risk-free’ assets are one well-understood development. There are others. This week we’ll take a look at the specter of zero-rates from a risk management perspective and demonstrate exactly how much our world has changed. Perhaps, ironically, the news is not all bad; there is a bit of a silver lining in here!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Marc Faber Says Own Stocks, Gold & Silver, Farm Land and Short Government Bonds / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Justin_John
2011 has started on an unexpected note. Emerging markets have come down and developed markets, like Europe and the US, have scaled up.
It was not entirely unexpected to me because since March 2009, emerging markets have significantly outperformed developed ones and through easy monetary policies in the US, we created bubbles in the emerging economies, particularly in terms of inflation. So, the emerging economies, having this excessive liquidity and high inflation, have to tighten here, or let inflation go and have problems later on. So some money is flowing out of emerging economies.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
How the Food Crisis Will Affect Your Portfolio in 2011 / Stock-Markets / Food Crisis
By: DailyWealth
Chris Mayer writes: A story I've been warning about for years is making sensational headlines right now.
It's a story most people don't realize could make a huge impact on all of our portfolios in a number of ways.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
A Safer Time to Buy Stocks is Coming Soon! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Bob_Clark
Beware the Ides of March. Good advice to Caesar but is it good for stock market investors as well? Probably not. The thing is, most years the Ides of March is actually a good time to be buying stocks.
It is coming
The time to beware, is coming up soon and that is what I will be looking at today.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Panic Selling Hits Stock Market, Silver Is Next! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Today the stock market bled out with a river of red candles. All of the recent gains vanished in one session. Strong selling volume sessions like this are typically a warning sign that distribution selling is starting to enter the market.
Distribution selling is when the big money players start unloading large positions in anticipation of a market top. They do try to hide it by selling into good news or earnings when the average investors are buying into all the hype of better than expected earnings on the news. As average investors jump into the market because of the good news, this extra liquidity helps the big money players (banks, hedge funds, etc..) sell large amounts of their positions to the eager buyers. This is why the “buy on rumor and sell on the news” saying is kicked around wall street….
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Nasdaq Snaps / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
The market has been needing to sell and today it finally did. The Dow held up because of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), but the S&P 500 and Nasdaq took it on the chin today, especially those tech stocks in the Nasdaq. Where to start. Let's start with Apple Inc. (AAPL), the most loved stock on planet earth. It fell hard yesterday early on when the news came out that CEO Steve Jobs is very sick again. It recovered beautifully in anticipation of its earnings report that evening. The earnings were out of this world fabulous. The stock ran up and was about to move to new highs. With such great news it was bound to keep running up. Not the case. It snapped down. It closed red after being up over ten dollars. A topping stick for the foreseeable future.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Stock Market Appears Attractive Over Next 6-to-12 Months / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Our market models at CCM continue to paint a positive outlook for stocks, and risk assets in general, over the next twelve months. Positive fundamental data and global growth projections averaging 4.3% for the coming year continue to outweigh concerns about sovereign issues in Europe, a U.S. housing market weighed by continued foreclosures, and high unemployment.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Marc Faber Mature Economies To Beat Emerging Markets, Food Inflation Worrying / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Videos
Marc Faber on CNBC-TV18 : Mature economies To Beat Emerging Markets, Food Inflation Worrying
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Four Financial Farces… All of Which Will End in Disaster / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Graham_Summers
At this point the news out of the financial world is more insane than… well, anything.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Weekly Stock Market Forecast (Resistance Edition) / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Graham_Summers
The first and most critical item to note is that stocks have hit up against their upper trendline as denoted by their August, November and current tops. By most counts, this is THE upside target for this rally.