Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Sunday, February 06, 2011
Stock Market SPX Closed Above Cycle Top Resistance / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The FDIC Failed Bank List announced three new bank closures this week. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seized the American Trust Bank, based in Roswell, Ga., with $238.2 million in assets and $222.2 million in deposits; the North Georgia Bank of Watkinsville, Ga., with $153.2 million in assets and $139.7 million in deposits; and the Chicago-based Community First Bank, with $51.1 million in assets and $49.5 million in deposits.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Stock Market February Seasonality / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: John_Hampson
February is an interesting month by seasonality. Typically the start of six months of underperformance for precious metals and the start of six months of outperformance for oil, it is also the second weakest month of the calendar for stocks.
On this occasion I expect Gold to buck seasonal weakness, given that it has been consolidating for the last 3 months during its seasonally strong time and is now signalling a buy:
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Egypt’s Civil Unrest Could Spread to Asia, What It Means for Your Investments! / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Bryan_Rich
In recent weeks we’ve seen riots in Algeria, a coup in Tunisia and a massive public uprising in Egypt. The catalyst: The combination of skyrocketing food prices and high, persistent unemployment.
But while most are focusing on the specific political shortcomings within the countries and dismissing the events as isolated and contained, the lessons learned from this global economic crisis give every reason to expect contagion …
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Saturday, February 05, 2011
Stock Market Bubbles, Crowds and Credit / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Doug_Wakefield
“…now that the recession is over, we have to face the fact that the government must make cuts.”
“We put rules in place to prevent another financial crisis…” President Barack H. Obama, State of the Union, Tuesday, January 24 ‘11
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Saturday, February 05, 2011
Stock Market Investors Be Careful - It’s Not Easy to Get Rich Quick! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Sy_Harding
Over the last decade investors and home-owners experienced a series of brutal beatings in what was historically a very short period of time.
Many investors took heavy losses in the 2000-2002 bear market when even the blue chip S&P 500 lost 50% of its value. Many then got caught up in the housing bubble, maxing out mortgages that were unsafe unless home prices kept rising at a record pace. They lost sizable amounts when instead the housing bubble burst and home prices plunged. In too many cases they lost their homes as well. No sooner had the stock market recovered in the 2003-2007 bull market than investors lost heavily again in the 2007-2009 bear market, when once again the S&P 500 lost 50% of its value.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Is The U.S. Stock Market Rally Sustainable? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: John_Browne
This week, the financial media celebrated as the Dow closed above the 12,000 mark for the first time since June 19th, 2008. For many, this milestone is another sign that the financial nightmare of the past three years will soon fade in the rearview mirror.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Stocks Getting Boost From Commercial Real Estate / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
While it would have seemed implausible during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, the financial markets and economy are getting a boost from commercial real estate. According to Bloomberg:
Friday, February 04, 2011
Sloppy BubbleOmics: Case-Study John Maudlin And Jeremy Grantham / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Andrew_Butter
John Maudlin recently put out an article called “Pavlov’s Bulls, the Importance of Asset Class Bubbles for Value Investors and Why They Occur”, which pretty much summarizes popular misconceptions about financial bubbles.
Friday, February 04, 2011
U.S. Citizens Go Global With Your Wealth, Before It’s Too Late / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: David_Galland
David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research writes: It has been years since I last watched The Matrix, a lapse I corrected last night. As the movie makers intended, the film serves as stark metaphor of the world as we know it.
Or, more appropriately, as we think we know it. If asked, the average citizen of these United States would describe their life in entirely ordinary terms. They work at such-and-such a company, they live in this or that place, they enjoy one activity or another, and so on.
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Friday, February 04, 2011
Stock Market Investors Need to be Aware of Power in Mass Collateral Damage / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Joseph_Russo
Those seated comfortably in every niche of concentrated power should duly note that their well-guarded monopolies of power and influence are not nearly as invincible as they might perceive them to be.
As evidenced in Egypt, on the turn of a dime, what at one moment appeared status quo turned business-as-usual into a living nightmare.
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Friday, February 04, 2011
How To Spot and Trade Stock Market Negative Divergences / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: David_Grandey
Well once again it’s all about the 60-minute charts with support and resistance clearly defined. We made a move up to resistance and are now in the process of turning around here.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Global Stock Markets Strong Supportive Tone Continues / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Donald_W_Dony
Global equity markets continue to carry a strong supportive tone into Q1. The percentage of rising stocks within the broad-based NYSE is holding above 80%, which represents an overly bullish reading.
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Thursday, February 03, 2011
Is the Stock Market Making a Major Top? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
With the often misused term “overbought” being thrown around regularly on Wall Street these days, it is a good time to take a step back and assess the odds of a new bear market rearing its ugly head from current conditions.
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Thursday, February 03, 2011
Danger of E.U. and North Africa Bank Runs 2011 / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Gordon_T_Long
This is a warning to prepare for potential stealth bank runs cascading from North Africa and Ireland through to EU regional banking centers.
Stealth bank runs are the unrecognized and perilous serpent lurking presently below the European financial surface. They prey on slower moving archaic bond vigilantes and anyone else swimming in these dangerous uncharted waters.
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Thursday, February 03, 2011
Capital Leaving Middle East Looking For Safe Havens In Hard Assets and Crude Oil / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Last week I warned of a flare-up in Egypt and a reversal in oil and gold. The media are transmitting pictures of street scenes in Egypt that for the most part appear benign. However, riptides of anti-Americanism are squirreling ominously beneath the surface. There are reports that El Baredei is to form a unity government with the Muslim Brotherhood. Business leaders, Westerners, and major shipping companies have rerouted their ships away from Egypt. Egypt has been an ally of the United States for more than 30 years but the new leadership may move the country more extreme. President Hosni Mubarek has been "America's Man" at the cost of over a billion dollars a year. During Mubarek's rule Egypt has been at peace with Israel and the US, yet there is now growing anti-Western sentiment. It is a complex situation loaded with large "Black Swans."
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Dow Jones Stocks Index Closes Above 12,000 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices started off the month with a bang in an explosive move from the get-go that took them sharply higher all morning and reached the rally highs on the Nasdaq 100 just before noon at around 2329. The S&P 500 at that point reached 1308 and change, which was bettered by just a fraction later in the day, but not confirmed on the Nasdaq 100. In any case, the rest of the day was spent backing and filling, pulling back just a little bit in orderly fashion. They tried to rally late in the session, which put the SPX at new highs, but not the NDX. In the last 10 minutes they rolled back, gave back some of the gains, but still the Dow closed over 12,000.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Profit From This Monthly Stock Market Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Sy_Harding
I call it the ‘monthly strength period’, the strong tendency for the market to be up for the first few days of each month. It’s a pattern that’s been around for a very long-time. Norman Fosback first pointed it out in his 1976 book Stock Market Logic.However, few investors are aware of its importance.
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Three Latin America Markets to Beat the BRICS / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
The stock exchanges of Colombia, Peru and Chile agreed last November to merge their trading, giving international investors access to roughly 600 stocks - more than any single country in Latin America.
Earlier this month, the trio demonstrated just how serious they were, with the Peruvian and Colombian stock exchanges entering into a full-blown merger agreement. These are the three best-run countries in Latin America, with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of more than $500 billion.
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Historical Stock Market Analysis Suggests S&P 500 Top at 1400, then Drop to 400! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Lorimer_Wilson
Based on a unique comparison with the Nikkei 225 and prior mega-bears it seems evident that the S&P 500 should continue its rise to 1400 or so in the first half of 2011 before it collapses completely down to an unbelievably low of 400. Before you totally reject this possibility please read the entire article. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Pavlov’s Bulls, the Importance of Asset Class Bubbles for Value Investors and Why They Occur / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: John_Mauldin
My long-time readers are familiar with Jeremy Grantham of GMO, as I quote him a lot. He is one of the more brilliant and talented value managers (and I should mention, very successful on behalf of his clients). He writes a quarterly letter that I regard as a must-read. In fact, anything Jeremy writes is a must-read. This week’s OTB is a little longer than most, but it is actually two separate parts, which can be read at different times – but you want to take the time. He makes his predictions for the year in the first part, and gives us some valuable insights into the stock market in the second. The first part reads quick. Think through the second part.
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