Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Friday, June 18, 2010

Baltic Dry Goods Chart is Giving Bearish Stock Market Signals / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Brian_Bloom

Steep fall. Too steep for comfort. Implies that volumes of dry goods being shipped, world-wide, is contracting sharply. Might bounce from here but I don’t like that angle of decline. Could just as easily halve as rise.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Stock Market Calm Before Next Climb / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The S&P 500 emini contract is pressing towards yet another probe of key support along the 1100 level, which also doubles as the rising 200-day moving average at 1099.70. As long as that support area contains any forthcoming weakness, with an overshoot into the June 8 up-trendline at 1095, my pattern work will consider all the action since the June 15 high at 1111.50 to be a sideways rest-digestion period ahead of another upleg.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Spain Clears Funding Hurdle But US Jobs Data Disappoints / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

Spain is again the focus both on and off the pitch Wednesday with the Spanish bond market like their defence, beginning to resemble a Swiss cheese. With nerves about Spain’s financing situation rattled ahead of Spain’s bond auctions today and a heavy period of debt redemptions coming up in July totalling €25bn, the spread between Spain and Germany’s 2-year yields rose another 15 bp to another new EMU high of 279 bp a 40 bp rise so far this week and nearly 150 bp rise in the past month. Seems the contagion spread to the football team last night. There are also worries that the release of the results of the recent stress test results for European banks will confirm the markets very worst fears about the level of leverage/under capitalization still lingering nearly 2.5 years into the crisis. I personally think quite the opposite and that the stress test results will focus attention on German banks who have been getting away with being undercapitalized/over leveraged for years.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Stock Barometer Analysis, Thursday's U.S. Jobless Claims Rise... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Jay_DeVincentis

While economic reports can cause initial reactions, it's important to see the trend that remains. That trend continues higher. For example, oil futures got hit on the economic news, but has recovered. Oil, (UCO) remains my favorite play here and if you were in the chat room yesterday, we were all over that break out.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Daily Trading Activity, BP Suspends 2010 Dividends... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Mark_McMillan

Trade Recommendations: Take no action.

Note: We added HOS to the value portfolio at a price of $14.50 per share. HOS closed at $14.28.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

U.S. Stocks Are Hanging By a Thread – But It’s a Tough Thread / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Money_Morning

Jon D. Markman writes: If you ask me, the current bull market in U.S. stocks is hanging by a thread.

In fact, a decline that takes the Standard & Poor's 500 Index down below the 1,040 level - roughly 7% below where it closed yesterday (Wednesday) - would probably murder the bull-market case for stocks.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Stock Indices Close Flat After Late Pullback / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices ended near the flat line, but were up most of the day before a late pullback brought them back near the flat line. They actually went negative for a bit with a half hour to go, but snapped back into the close.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Who Can Get Hurt the Most - Longs or Shorts? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Sean_E_Blair

GOLD - Below the market there are some lows on the Weekly Bar Chart that are rather close together. The arrows point to the lows of the bars where the Sell Stops are. Although it is difficult to predict exactly when these lows will be taken out, I would suggest that there is a high probability of it happening… sometime.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Stocks and Commodities Downtrend Could Have Ended, A Colorful View on SPX, Gold & Oil / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Chris_Vermeulen

It’s been a bright week so far for stocks and commodities. It appears that the down trend could have ended as of yesterday (Tuesday June 15^th). In this mid-week report I figured I would bring back the 80’s colors to see if I can spice things up!

Below are some charts I did showing my current views on the market. You may want to put on your hyper color shirt, sunglasses and zinc when viewing them in order to get into the zone… lol

Thursday, June 17, 2010

S&P 500 1105..Earnings....Resistance At 50's....Right Shoulder / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

There are times when I think this would all be easier if I had you all in front of me and I could verbalize what I'm seeing and thinking. I'll do my best to explain today's action and what is ahead for this market. Today was an interesting day, for sure, because the bulls showed that they're not very anxious to give back that S&P 500 1105 support level, which, until a day ago, was a wall of China in terms of resistance. Two tests early on down to 1107, but that was the best the bears could muster up.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Spotlight Shines on 2010 World Investment Conference / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010

By: The_Gold_Report

This year's iteration of Cambridge House's World Investment Conference—a one-stop-shopping venue for resource education and opportunities—may not have set attendance records, but the videographer found plenty of people on the floors and in the halls to gather general observations about this year's show, opinions on hot commodities and insights into investment topics. Tune in for some snippets from the likes of Al Korelin, Howard Fitch, Lawrence Roulston, Marin Katusa, David Coffin, Roger Wiegand and many others in this

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Stocks Trading - What To Do With A Follow Through Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: David_Grandey

OH BOY! We got an O’Neil Follow Through Day! That’s just great isn’t it?

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Bull Flag for China FXI ETF / Stock-Markets / China Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (FXI), after the pullback from yesterday's high at 41.08 into this morning's low at 40.68, appears ripe for upside acceleration. It appears to be consolidating between 41.00 and 40.70, and the price action has the right look of a bull flag continuation pattern prior to a thrust to the upside into my next optimal target zone at 41.50/80.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

US, UK and European Financial Systems Are On the Way to Collapse / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Bob_Chapman

Were it not for the Federal Reserves purchase of Treasury and Agency bonds the US would already be unable to raise funds to service debt and issue new debt, and it would already have descended into national bankruptcy. It is no wonder the Fed does not want to be audited. Through various artifices the Fed has been purchasing US treasury paper. No one knows how much, because when asked the Fed says it is a state secret. That is what all Americans love. A country run in secrecy. A privately owned corporation operating under the cover of secrecy, and protected by a Treasury Department, that is under the control of the Fed’s owners. How is that for an incestuous relationship?

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Stock Market Bulls Roar Back / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices had an exceptional day as the bulls certainly roared today. The indices started out with a gap up, ran hard early on, reached resistance levels and backed off to consolidate, but continued its stair-step advance in a steady fashion, closing near the highs for the day going away in a strong surge with strong technicals to confirm the trend today.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Stock Market Bulls Capture S&P 500 1105...... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

So the range between 1040 (3 tests) and 1105 (prior to today, 4 tests) was finally broken to the up side by the bulls. Fifth time the charm. Didn't come easy. Yours truly sadly shaken out along the way. It was tough. It gave more head fakes than one could possibly imagine would be possible. Yesterday being the latest of those head fakes.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Big Bear Markets Mean More Than Falling Stock Prices / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: EWI

Many infamous authoritarian regimes emerged during or after big bear markets

Fear and uncertainty that drive a severe bear market are the same emotions which can set the stage for authoritarianism, in most any nation. 

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

CNBC Goes Too Far With Tag Team PIMPCO Bond Pusher El-Erian With Roubini Dr Doom / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PhilStockWorld

Once again CNBC has gone too far!

The futures were doing very well, up almost 1% until CNBC put together the tag-team guest spot of Mohamed El-Erian, the notorious bond pusher from Pimpco and "Doctor Doom" himself - Nouriel Roubini in a classic bear and bigger bear face-off that was timed right into the EU's lunch hour.  Roubini's new book is called "Crisis Economics" and there's nothing like a crisis to chase people into the loving arms of PIMCO, where El-Erian gets the fees.  It's odd that there's not even a simple disclosure statement from El-Erian to guide viewers like: "You know, I do well when the market does bad."   

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Activity in Media Sector Lifts Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

This morning in Europe the big story is the bid by Rupert Murdoch’s News International for the remainder of BSkyB. The stock is up 20%. Bloomberg has posted headlines saying that BSkyB “would support a proposal delivering value above 800p” after News Corp rebuffed an initial 675p to 700p. This M&A story has sparked a more general rally in media names such as ITV (up 3.8%) and Spain’s Gestevision Telecinco which is better by 4.2%. Other stocks on the move include broker ICAP (plus 2.5%) on an upgrade at Numis from “reduce” to “add”. But Inmarsat is down 4.2% after a broker downgrade. They were cut to “underperform” from “neutral” over at BofA Merrill Lynch. Healthcare Locums has collapsed 18% after admitting that all talks about a possible takeover have ended. But Spice Plc is up 6% on news that Cinven is considering making an fresh offer. Dow futures are ahead by 60 as I write despite some disappointing numbers from Best Buy. The stock has shed 6% pre market.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Stock Market Reversal at Resistance... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Mark_McMillan

Trade Recommendations: Take no action.

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