Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Monday, May 24, 2010
ETFs and the Flash Stock Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Frank_Holmes
Liquidity is one of the key selling points for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), but the Dow Jones “flash crash” of May 6 shows how that supposed advantage can turn into a huge liability for investors.
A report this week from the SEC and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) found that ETFs accounted for the overwhelming majority of securities that fell at least 60 percent that day. Many of those ETFs fell all the way to $0.01 per share during trading.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Conservative Equity Income Investment Filter / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Richard_Shaw
Equity income is important to most investors who have substantially completed the savings stage of life, and who expect to rely on those assets to maintain lifestyle. While bonds are important to portfolios, they do not provide growth of income. Some level of income growth (equity income) is essential to those investors who expect to pay for lifestyle with investment income.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Bears Remain In Charge / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Pick a cliché, tin hat time, carnage , capitulation, get some tinned food for the bunker as the market blew a collective fuse Thursday. Yes the week long rout in stocks deepened, with U.S. benchmark indexes losing the most in more than a year, as economic reports cast doubts about the strength of the economic recovery and European leaders struggled in vain to contain the region’s debt crisis.
Monday, May 24, 2010
The Markets vs. Bernanke / Stock-Markets / Central Banks
By: Michael_Pento
Who should investors listen to; the markets or the Fed? One says we are in for a double dip recession, the other just raised GDP forecasts.
The head of our central bank Benjamin S. Bernanke has a perfect track record for predicting economic outcomes. Unfortunately, his track record is only perfect due to its 100% inaccuracy. The Fed Chairman once assured investors that the subprime housing crisis was contained and would not bring down real estate prices or affect the overall economy.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Evolving Financial Crisis: The World Banking System is Insolvent / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis
By: Bob_Chapman
Keeping up with today’s dysfunctional markets is very difficult because they change hour by hour. The problems of Europe have stolen center stage from US problems. The focus is on Europe, but we all should remember trillions of dollars have been injected into the US financial system since mid-2007. All are attempting to maintain the façade that all is well, when in fact all is not well. Underlying assets are worth far less than their stated value.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Will Extreme Market Volatility Actually Stabilize the Markets? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Stocks tumbled across the board last week like a pair of dice rumbling around a craps table, rocked by extreme volatility. Just when it looked like they were rolling up the unnerving loss of the critical 200-day average on Thursday, bulls' returned to the fray and pushed the major indexes just barely back into safe territory.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Stocks Medium-term Bull Market May Have Started An Intermediate-term Correction / 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, May 24, 2010
Greece Debt Crisis and Bailout Market Volatility, What Just Happened? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Howard_Katz
The events of the last few months have been far more important than I had originally given them credit for. The bottom line was when a group of European nations, together with the International Monetary Fund, gave loans to Greece to pay off the rioters. That very day Jean-Claude Trichet was in the financial markets buying bonds
Monday, May 24, 2010
Robert Prechter's Stock Market Elliott Wave Cycle Forecast / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: EWI
The August 2009 issue listed the range for typical retracement as being from 9368 to 11,620. This is a wide range, but there is nothing we can do about it; second waves have a lot of leeway. The illustration shown in that issue is reproduced below alongside an update of market prices. The Dow has so far stayed within the normal range."
Sunday, May 23, 2010
How to Trade Gold and S&P500 Market Bottoms / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The stock market topped in April which was expected from analyzing stocks and the indexes. On 2nd May I posted a few reports explaining how to read the charts to spot market tops. Today’s report is about identifying market bottoms.
It does not get much more exciting than what we have seen in the past 2 months with the market topping in April and the May 6th mini market crash. This Thursday we saw panic selling which pushed the market below the May 6th low washing the market of weak positions.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Stock Market Volatile Corrective Range, Debt Deflation Escape Velocity Towards Inflation / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The week started the way it ended - VOLATILE, the Dow came up for a breath of air on Monday by rallying some 100 points above the previous weeks close to 10718, only to be pulled back under water all the way to the bottom of its range, culminating in Fridays sinking towards the low end of its 10,900 to 9,800 range by putting in a low of 9,919.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
MortiES Stock Market Elliott Wave Trend Forecast, Bulls Bank Profits / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Dr_John_Trapp
A Wave 4 is described as a Profit-Taking Wave. It is not so much that the Bears are getting stronger as the Bulls are taking profits off the table as they see them eroding. The mini-crash on 6May may not have been real in the eyes of many, but it did technical damage to the market. The emotions of traders are seen in the market as fear and greed have their way. That is also why I said in my post on 6May that the low of that day would be taken out, even though the massive rebound made many think it was just an anomaly. That low (1056) was broken Friday as ES dipped to 1051.25.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Stock Market Panics Versus Crashes, It Makes All the Difference! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Clif_Droke
Much has been written about the so-called “flash crash” that occurred on Thursday, May 6, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average lose nearly 1,000 points intraday. But did this sell-off fall under the category of a crash or a panic? The difference between the two events is significant and will usually determine whether the stock market bounces back or continues to free fall. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Stock Market Catastrophic Down Wave, Coming Economic Calamity Could Lead to a New World Order / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Robert_McHugh_PhD
Big picture: We believe stocks have entered catastrophic wave (C ) down, which should be the third and most devastating phase of the Grand Supercycle degree wave {IV} Bear Market. This decline has the potential to be a nation changing economic meltdown. We have been showing for months several dangerous massive Head & Shoulders top patterns in major stock indices around the world.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Nouriel Roubini Stock Market 20% Drop Forecast, Time to Buy? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Nadeem_Walayat
According to CNBC, Dr Doom Nouriel Roubini has issued a call that the stock market is expected to fall by as much as a further 20%, not stopping there he also stated that a double dip deeper deflationary recession is likely. Roubini made his call on Thursday with the Dow trading at 10,185.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Stock Market Investor Sentiment: It Would Be Better If... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Guy_Lerner
It would be better if prices on all of the major indices: 1) decisively broke their 200 day moving averages; 2) closed below weekly support levels; and 3) closed below the February, 2010 lows. It would be better if the prior week's pullback, which morphed into this week's "correction", actually caused investors to utter the "b" word -- as in bear market. It would be better if investors had their spirit's broken as investor sentiment actually turned bearish (i.e., bull signal).
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Stock Market Trend Decisively Broken, Major Correction OR Downward Bearish Trend? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Peter_Navarro
Plan A is in effect for retail investors – remain in cash until the trend reestablishes itself. The big question now is whether we have “merely” a major correction OR the beginning of a downward bearish trend.
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
Deficits To Go Galactic, Sell in May and Run Away . . . Fast / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Gary_North
There is an old phrase regarding stock market investing: "Sell in May and go away." Recent markets have reinforced that saying.
Stock markets all over the world are falling. The first market to begin falling was China's. It peaked in early August of 2009. It struggled back, though not to its August peak, but is now falling. The decline is accelerating. It is down by about 25% in 2010.
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
Think Stock Market Correction Is Over? Roubini Sees 20% More Downside / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Dian_L_Chu
Investors are tempted back into the market after a nearly 4% sell-off on Thursday, the biggest one-day drop since April 2009, leaving stocks at more reasonable valuations. Meanwhile, Germany's parliament approved a bailout bill for Greece and other euro zone nations burdened with high debt loads also helped ease worries about sovereign debt.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Severely Oversold Stock Market Offers Up A Rally... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The market gapped down big again this morning and the bears tried to follow through on the break below the 200-day exponential moving averages that went away at the close yesterday. They felt sure they had the bulls buried and who could blame them for feeling good about things. However, I sent out an early note telling everyone not to short the move lower as the market was extremely oversold and that shorting wouldn't bring about much satisfaction.
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