Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Stock Market Crash, the X-Wave Confluence / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Captain_Hook
I’ve either heard or read just about every explanation for why the stock market could plunge dramatically moving forward, and I would like to offer mine now, now that it appears the fundamentals associated with our political economy are finally aligned to sponsor such an occurrence. To get things rolling in this regard, everybody should read Jim Kunstler’s latest, where he offers a few thought provoking ideas of why things are likely moving in this direction. And more so, please take the time to review Martin Armstrong’s latest (you need a great deal of RAM to read the entire article) as well, where as usual he does an exquisite job of explaining why ‘we the people’, have finally had enough, and are now doing something about it.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Stash Cash for Next Stock Market Flash Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Paul_Lamont
Back in February we stated: “As the chart of the Crash of 1987 below demonstrates, the 3rd wave of a market decline is usually the most distinct.” With the third wave now underway, the Wall Street Journal is reporting on the parallels between the Crash of 1987 and May 6th’s Flash Crash. We suspect that the comparison will transition to the Crash of 1929 as the selling continues. Here is why:
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Stocks In Smackdown Mode / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Very ugly close on Wall Street Friday – and with DOW below 10.000 the next important levels are now how long 1.040 and even 1.000 will hold in S&P500. Rumours that giant French bank Soc Gen (déjà vu Mr Kerviel) was in a spot of bother on derivative losses combined with a Greek style mishandling of fiscal difficulties in Hungary mixed in with some very disappointing US jobs numbers (the private sector only created 41k jobs in May with the rest best temp census hires) made for a bearish cocktail that sent stockmarkets into a tailspin.
Monday, June 07, 2010
What is leading to the Global Markets Sell Off? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Dhaval_Shah
Markets behaviour in past few days have been quite chaotic and strangling, leaving investors completely clueless.Everything under the sun(except Dollar & Gold) have been falling off the cliff. Take any currency, it is falling ferociously against dollar and loosing value against Gold.
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Wealthbuilder Quarterly Market Brief and Stock Pick / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Christopher_Quigley
On the 21st. May we wrote the following: “Due to lower highs and lower lows on both the Dow Industrials and Dow Transports there is
now a change of trend in existence in the markets. How long this correction will continue no
one can be sure. A bounce can be expected at any time due to the fact that the market is
terribly oversold based on Stochastics and the McClennan Summation Index. However, I do
not think we have seen support lows in place yet. What is the reason for this capitulation? As
mentioned in my last brief I believed the “flash crash” of the 6th. May mortally wounded all
indices from a technical pointy of view. It will take some time, probably the whole summer,
before some degree of confidence is restored.”
Monday, June 07, 2010
Why U.S. Stocks Can Outshine Faltering Global Economic Growth / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: After another lousy week, it's official: Global markets have suffered the worst late-spring setback since 1940 -- a May-June period when the Germans invaded the Netherlands, then marched into Paris, and Italy declared war on France and Great Britain. Just like that, seven decades ago, World War II was on, and markets went into freefall.
If stocks are as good at anticipating global calamity this time as they were in that horrible spring 70 years ago, we may be in for a terrible second half.
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Bears Seize Control of Schizophrenic Stock Market / 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 2014.
SPX: Long-term trend - Up! We are in a medium-term bull market, which is a corrective move within a long term bear market. This bull market should last until 2011
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Second Stocks Bear Market, The Right Path! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Steve_Betts
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." ---General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Stock Market Plunge on Disappointing Jobs Data, What's Next? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Dow closed the week sharply lower on Friday at 9932 against last weeks close of 10,136. The stock market had exhibited a tightening of its trading range for most of the week following a bounce off an early week low of 10,014 into a rally peak of 10,315 Thursday, as the market marked time ahead of the Fridays Jobs Report that disappointed market participants and resulted in a 333 point drop on the day right from the opening gap down and trend lower all the way into the close.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Stock Market Precipitous Sell-off, Was the Jobs Report That Bad? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Dian_L_Chu
A precipitous sell-off in the stock market took place last Friday (Chart 1) as the Labor Department’s May monthly report showed that job growth was weak in the private sector. The NYSE had to invoke “Rule 48″ again, marking the fifth time this year it has used the rare rule, which is intended to help smooth the opening following volatile futures action.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
The SP 500 Stocks Index Poised to Break to New Lows? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: David_Banister
Back in mid April on Kitco.com I wrote a market forecast calling for a top in the SP 500 index and an ABC correction. Since that time I had one intervening update on both Gold and the SP 500 index, and this is a June 5th follow-up.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Safe Havens are Shining but are Stocks About to Rocket Higher? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It was another extremely volatile week sharp rallies followed by sharp sell offs. Fear is in no doubt controlling the market. The bulls and bears continue to battle it out. The charts below cover some important trends and market internals I pay attention to on a daily basis.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Here's How You Figure Out Where the Stock Market Is Headed Next / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: DailyWealth
Dan Ferris wites: If you want to get an idea of where the overall stock market is likely headed in the next few years, just take a step back and think about Mr. Market's wild mood swings of the past few years...
After a three-year depression lifted in late 2002, Mr. Market became irrationally exuberant all over again. By late 2007, the S&P 500 hit a new all-time high. Stocks were king. Nobody thought about risk.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Time Frame Dominance: Why I Stayed Short on Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: JD_Rosendahl
A reader asked recently, "Why I was staying short with a couple positions when I thought the stock market could bounce and I was discussing a little inverse H&S pattern?" Excellent question.If you’ve been reading my recent TA of the market, then you know I’ve highlighted a potential inverse head and shoulders pattern. You also know I've repeatedly stated, "I had no long side positions AND was holding a couple of short positions from a week ago, and waiting for a better low risk set up to make new trades." The follow up question has to be why?
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Saturday, June 05, 2010
Jobs Report Brings Some Unexpected Truth To The Stock Market..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The market was set-up to try higher and form a right shoulder. It was excited over the prospects of huge job growth, especially in the private sector where it matters most. A strong close Thursday with MACD's crossing set it all up. The time came for the big surprise that would shock the bears and allow the bulls to celebrate an expanding economy. Then reality hit. No growth. No job creation in the private sector. Stimulus doing nothing big picture, which it never does, of course.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
It's Un-American To Be Bearish On Anything Besides Gold and Silver, Only Evil Speculators Short Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Adam_Brochert
It is un-American to be bearish on anything besides Gold and silver. Only evil, greedy speculators would bet against stocks. Only kooky people with guns and canned goods would be bullish on Gold. That would make me an un-American, evil, greedy, kooky, gun-toting, spam-eating speculative devil. As an example of the thoughts such an unstable and unfit being creates when evaluating the financial markets, please indulge me in yet another bearish scenario simulation that contradicts the "central bankstaz and governments would never let that happen" theme.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Bad Jobs Data and Hungary Debt Crisis Triggers Market Failure / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Employment Situation: Less than meets the eye. Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector employment changed little (+41,000). Manufacturing, temporary help services, and mining added jobs, while construction employment declined. The unemployment rate edged down to 9.7 percent.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Deflationary Forces and Historical Stock Market Corrections / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Chris_Ciovacco
With a weak employment report on Friday, problems in Europe, and financial markets in a precarious technical condition, it is helpful to review similar historical stock market corrections. From a fundamental perspective, our present day concerns relate to deflationary forces in the global economy. Unlike the U.S., which can expand the supply of dollars relatively easily, printing euros is more difficult since each member of the European Union has its own tax and spending policies. Printing euros may help the people of Greece in some ways while diminishing the purchasing power of German savers.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Investor Reality to Protect Profits, Delusion to Court Disaster / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“…Can you imagine if during the cold war the Soviet Union had undermined all the countries, it would have been the start of World War III. And yet we are letting investment banks do the same thing. We are letting investment banks undermine the finances, cast doubt on the credibility, create civil unrest, riots, death. It's the kind of thing that in a military frontal assault would be repelled, but somehow we let Wall Street attack the countries and do nothing about it. I am glad that someone is finally standing up, and I expect that Merkel will be joined by others. I am not against speculation. Let speculators put up some money, let them do (it) on an exchange, let the pricing be transparent, let them do variation margin... This no money down shadow credit default swap market is completely destructive. A little hyperbolic but you get it.”James G. Rickards, King World News, 5/22/10
Friday, June 04, 2010
A Look at Some Stock Market Echoes and Gold Stocks / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Clif_Droke
I'd like to return to a theme we were discussing last week concerning our expectations for this year's upcoming 4-year cycle bottom. We touched on this in a recent commentary and we'll discuss it some more here. The theme I'd like to emphasize is that in years when the 4-year cycle bottoms (which always occurs in late September/early October) and the stock market takes a significant hit prior to the 4-year cycle time low, the bottom is in most cases made well before the late September/early October period and the market usually ends up outperforming for the rest of the year. Read full article... Read full article...