Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Stock Markets Worried by Watered Down QE2 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
The market put in a respectable performance Tuesday considering the amount of negative news. Despite Ford beating expectations by a whopping 25 percent the stock only rallied 1.5 percent. Three of the major Steel Players (MT, X, AKS) missed and fell 4 percent on average. Meanwhile Kimberly-Clark , the maker of Huggies nappies and Kleenex tissues, lost 5.8 percent as profit dropped amid higher costs for materials. But IBM climbed 0.6 percent after its board authorized buying back as much as $10 billion in shares.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Marc Faber Says QE2 to Drive Down Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Videos
Marc Faber discusses the potential impact of further quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve on stocks.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The Wall Street Buttonwood Gathering - View from the Top / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
This was an interesting event!
On May 17th 1792, twenty-four stock brokers met under a buttonwood tree outside 68 Wall Street and agreed to set up the New York Stock and Exchange board. The tree was a symbol of Wall Street, but also, it was where people originally met to trade, to discuss and to argue.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Quantitative Easing Targets Asset Prices, Not Bank Reserves / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: Chris_Ciovacco
With markets coming off of overbought levels, bullish sentiment high, and gold backing off a vertical ascent, we believe investors need to be ready for a quantitative easing (QE) disappointment pullback. A “buy the QE rumor, sell the QE news” event needs to be considered from a portfolio management perspective. Having said that we also believe most investors and many financial professionals do not fully understand how QE works in the real world and that one of QE’s primary objectives is to inflate asset prices.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Stocks Tread Water Ahead of Consumer Data / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
U.S. stocks rose Monday, sending the S&P 500 Index to a 4th straight gain, after the Group of 20 nations pledged to avoid “competitive devaluations” of currencies and investors bet the Federal Reserve will announce further bond purchases next week. Stocks wise DuPont, Kraft Foods and Walt Disney all climbed more than 1.4 percent to lead gains amongst the largest U.S. companies. And Citigroup rallied 2.4 percent after Goldman Sachs added the shares to its “conviction buy” list. Elsewhere CommScope surged 30 percent on news a private equity firm is considering a takeover while Office Depot also gained 3.5 percent after saying earnings will beat estimates.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Why Wall Street Bonuses Will Cost Us All in the Long Run / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Wall Street firms may not be reaping the record-breaking revenues of 2004-2007, but they're paying themselves the lofty bonuses of that lavish era - and they're doing it at our expense and with the government's blessing.
Wall Street's pay packages, including bonuses, are set to total 4% more in 2010 than in the already record year of 2009, The Wall Street Journal recently reported.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Stock Market Has Another Positive Start to the Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices started the week out on a positive note, although a last half-hour sell off took back a chunk of the profits.
The day started out with a gap up and strong early morning rally that took the Nasdaq 100 to new highs at 2127 and the S&P 500 to 1196. They then sold off, backed and filled, consolidated, and tried an afternoon rally, which got up to the morning highs but couldn't quite break out late and run. When that occurred, they rolled over hard in the last half hour to pare back the gains.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Stock Market Prints Dojis....Still Strong Overall.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
You look at the market and wonder when it will turn a bit. When will it sell off from this up trend to unwind those overbought daily oscillators? We have at, or near, 70 RSI on all the major index charts for weeks now, and a selling phase for a few days would do wonders to set things up very nicely. You often get this to happen when you print a doji or a spinning candle off a nice up trend.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Liquidity Traps, Falling Velocity, Commodity Hoarding, and Bernanke's Misguided Tinkering / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Mike_Shedlock
John Hussman has an interesting post this week on the misguided policies of the Bernanke Fed and how quantitative easing promotes commodity speculation and hoarding but does nothing for the real economy. Please consider Bernanke Leaps into a Liquidity Trap
The belief that an increase in the money supply will result in an increase in GDP relies on the assumption that velocity will not decline in proportion to the increase in money. Unfortunately for the proponents of "quantitative easing," this assumption fails spectacularly in the data - both in the U.S. and internationally - particularly at zero interest rates.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Upside Acceleration for China Shanghai Stocks Index / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The Shanghai Composite Index rocketed to new post-July highs today, which should continue to benefit names likes Arch Coal (ACI), Walter Energy (WLT), and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX).
After consolidating for four sessions right around its August 2009-October 2010 down trendline, today the Shanghai index accelerated to the upside to 3,051 in what looks like the start of a new upleg that could be heading for a test of its April high at 3182, or another +4.3%.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
How Bernanke Will Pump Stocks Higher Into Year End, Sectors that Will Soar / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: While many investors have solid reasons to remain concerned about the broader economic picture, there are some market sectors roaring forward that no one can afford to miss - and they will continue to provide profit opportunities thanks to the work of U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Stock Market Investing, We're "All In" Still and Sitting Tight / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: DailyWealth
After spending many years in Wall Street, and after making and losing millions of dollars, I want to tell you this: It was never my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. - – Legendary Speculator Jesse Livermore, from the classic 1923 book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Monday, October 25, 2010
Stock Market Increasing Evidence of Approaching Short-term Top, Gold Consolidating / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
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.
Long-term trend - In March 2009, equity markets began a corrective move in the form of a mini bull market. Many signs point to a continuation of this trend into 2011 and the surpassing of the April 2010 intermediate top.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Weekend SPX, Dollar, Oil and Gold Analysis / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last week was volatile thanks to China raising their interest rates a quarter basis point. This rate hike caused the Dollar to spike in value which in turn forced equities and metals to sell off sharply. This one day event caused equities to break below a short term support level causing a large number of protective stops to be triggered. This added more selling pressure causing the market to be down nearly 2.5% at one point but a late day bounce recouped a good chunk of the drop.
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Sunday, October 24, 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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Sunday, October 24, 2010
The Fed’s Inflation Crusade, POMO Making its Presence Felt Across the Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Investment_U
Dr. Mark Skousen writes: The Obamas’ pet is a Portuguese water dog named Bo.
But President Obama likes another dog a lot more.
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
It's the Money Stupid / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Joseph_Russo
Dazed and Confused - Why did the stock market crash in 2002, and then again in 2008? Why has the value of real estate declined so much since 2007? What has happened to the economy? Why do stocks continue to soar in the aftermath? Why does Gold suddenly cost over $1300 an ounce? Why can't we get a loan? Have we hit bottom yet?
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Stock Market Stalls at the Diamond Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
FDIC’s Workload is Picking Up.
The FDIC Failed Bank List announced seven new bank closures this week. Here we go - the rating agencies are now officially in the game. Next up - collateral calls and other nasty stuff: "Today, Fitch Ratings issued a number of separate press releases placing on Rating Watch Negative most U.S. bank and bank holding companies' Support Ratings, Support Floors and other ratings that are sovereign-support dependent. The two companies mostly impacted by this announcement are Bank of America Corporation and Citigroup, Inc." BBB+ coming up.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Make a Fortune in Stocks... Even If the Market Goes Nowhere / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: DailyWealth
Dan Ferris writes: Now more than ever before, investors must focus on dividends.
It's the ONLY way you're going to safely, steadily grow wealth in the stock market in the coming years.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Global Stock Markets Weekend Elliott Wave Analysis Update / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory
By: Tony_Caldaro
Economic reports and the equity market ended the week mostly positive. On the economic front; industrial production, building permits and weekly mortgage applications all declined. Capacity utilization and the BEA leading indicators were positive but flat. There were improvements, however, in the NAHB housing price index, housing starts, weekly jobless claims, the Philly FED, the WLEI, the monetary base and the M1 multiplier.