Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Stock Market Investor Sentiment: Few Words Needed / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment

By: Guy_Lerner

With 3 out of 4 of our measures registering extreme readings, few words are needed to describe investor sentiment this week.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Back to Market Fundamentalism, How Champions of Neoliberal Economics are Reversing New Deal Economics / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Submissions

Ismael Hossein-zadeh writes: The “golden” years of the U.S. economy in the immediate post-WW II period, along with the recovery and expansion of the economies of other industrialized countries, afforded the working class of these countries a decent, even middle-class, standard of living. Combined with extensive social safety-net programs such as the New Deal reforms in the U.S. and Social-Democratic reforms in Europe, the economic recovery and high employment rates of that period paved the way for a relatively cooperative relationship between the working and capitalist classes in these countries.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Stock Market Dow Theory Update / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Tim_Wood

As equities moved into their January highs, a very short-term Dow theory non-confirmation developed.   The Transports made their January closing high on January11th at 4,262.86 while the Industrials pressed higher marking their January closing high 5 trading days later at 10,725.43.    On March 9th the Transports closed above their January high and this time around the Industrials have lagged.  As a result, we now have another Dow theory non-confirmation that spans a couple of months in duration.  It seems that this latter non-confirmation is getting some attention.  

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Stock Market Broadening Top, Time to Look for the Exit? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly declined for a second month in March, a sign Americans are discouraged about the labor market.

The Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index fell to 72.5 from February’s final reading of 73.6. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected the gauge would increase to 74, according to the median estimate.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Stock Market Discussion..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

It's been quite the run thus far for this market. The S&P 500 made a low at 1045 and began to crawl its way back to the old high at 1151. Step by step and index by index. All of the major indexes clearing their recent highs, but the S&P 500 not quite making the move. The laggard. The market is waiting for the S&P 500 to make that move through to confirm a total market breakout: the Nasdaq, NDX, small caps, mid caps, transports, and so on, already on their breakout. Only the S&P 500 lags behind, but oh so close to making the bulls feel that they’re totally in control of the action.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Stock Market Consolidation Session Closes Narrowly Mixed / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices moved higher in the morning and reached new rally highs but backed off sharply shortly thereafter. The rest of the day they bounced back and forth and vacillated in coil-type fashions, but were not able to make any progress either way, although a late afternoon test of support threatened to break but held.

Friday, March 12, 2010

The Stock Market Big Dead-Cat Bounce / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Doug_Horning

Doug Hornig, Senior Editor, Casey Research writes: It’s now been a year since the dark days of early March 2009, when, although no one knew it at the time, the stock market hit rock bottom. From there, all of the indexes went on a tear through the rest of the year, moving almost uninterruptedly higher before easing slightly in the first two months of 2010. At this writing (March 5), the Dow is still up 60%, the S&P 500 68%, and the NASDAQ 83%.

Friday, March 12, 2010

The Unfolding Economic Depression and Continuing BOOM Commodities and Natural Resources / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Ty_Andros

As the commencement of the next leg down in the developed world’s economies continues to unfold like the sunset at the end of the day, the emerging world is HEALTHIER than ever and economic sunrise is still on their horizons.  Economic trains traveling in completely different directions.  In the emerging world, growth, capitalism, creative destruction and competition are embraced; they know the recipe for an expanding economy which means more food on everyone’s plates.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Investor Opportunities to Profitably Escape Fiat Currency Paper "Wealth" in 2010 / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis

By: DeepCaster_LLC

“Greece is only the latest in a series of countries that have faced this type of crisis in recent memory. Not too long ago the same types of fears were mounting about Dubai, and before that, Iceland. Several other countries (Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Latvia) are approaching crisis levels with public debt as well. Many have strong ties to Goldman Sachs, and the case could easily be made that default could have serious implications for big US banking cartels.

Friday, March 12, 2010

VIX Relative Strength Warning for SPX / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

This morning the S&P 500 (SPX) popped to a new recovery high above the Jan peak, although it has traded lower since then. It is interesting to notice that while the SPX climbed into new high territory, the cash VIX did not decline to new lows -- either beneath its Mar or Jan lows.

Friday, March 12, 2010

SULTANS OF SWAP: Smoking Guns & the Sting! / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Gordon_T_Long

There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605 Trillion OTC Derivatives market or just simple coincidence, I will leave it to you shrewd reader to determine.  The seven stages do however offer us an instructive theater guide to better understanding these murky instruments called Interest Rate Swaps.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Stock Market S&P 500 At The Breakout..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

They tried to sell this puppy but it just wouldn't sell. It would have been best to sell a few hundred points on the Dow, and we started in that direction today. but the force of this bull just wouldn't allow for it. The bears came out of the gate defending the close just under S&P 500 1151 with a nice little gap down. It started to run some after trying to claw back to flat and it seemed the selling was finally under way. Some bull markets get silly and just don't allow for too much selling before the buyers rush back in. The S&P 500 was spending most of the day trading slightly under the flat line but as things drew closer to the final bell, the S&P 500 went green and closed right at the breakout with a final print of 1150.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Stocks Sucker Rally, Bear Market Trap and the Energy Bull / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: The_Energy_Report

Rick Rule probably could draw an audience if he were talking about the weather, but combine his presence with knowledge, understanding, experience and a track record of success, particularly in the resource arena, and the crowd falls silent. Founder and chairman of Global Resource Investments, Rick recently made himself available for a brain-drain, the foundation of the piece that follows. . .

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Financial Markets Biggest Question For the Next Two Months / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Christopher_Laird

The biggest question for the next several months for markets is what?

Now that the S and P rallied over 60 pct since last March 2009, and pretty much all other markets except housing and real estate have also rallied (anything connected to financial markets that received the half of the several $trillion of US and other central bank emergency money infusions beginning big around March 2009) it begs the question when there will be a correction. Or a crash.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

S&P 500 Stock Market Trends Forecast for March 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Hans_Wagner

This is a monthly chart for the S&P 500 showing 20 years of performance. Since this index is the one used by professional traders, it is important to understand how it is performing. This chart is also excellent at defining the longer-term trends for the market.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Doug Casey on How to Survive the Financial Apocalypse / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis

By: Casey_Research

(Conversations with Casey: Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator)

L: Doug, last time we spoke, you said quite a bit about debt, in the context of your expectation that the euro is on its way out. At the end of that conversation, you mentioned, of course, that the problem is not limited to Greece, nor the eurozone. America as a country has become a world-class debtor, and many Americans seem to think a maxed-out credit card is a reason to get a higher credit limit, not to economize. It's like a global epidemic. Let's talk about debt.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Gold, Silver, Crude Oil and Natural Gas Mid-Week Technical Trading Charts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Chris_Vermeulen

So far this week has been pretty slow. Large cap stocks continue to lag the market which can be observed by looking at the Dow Jones Industrial Average which still has room to move higher before breaking the January high.

One important thing to note is that volume has picked up this week considerably – particularly on the SP500 and OEX. It’s difficult to say if this volume is a good sign or not.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Stock Market Softer on Fears Tighter Chinese Policy / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

A pretty moribund Wednesday but market sentiment has remained tilted towards the positive. In the US, the S&P500 took another stride towards eclipsing the 19 January high with a further 0.5% gain, helped by solid increases in the financials and the IT sector (of course the Nasdaq has already made new highs). US Treasury bonds were a bit weaker after the $21 billion 10 year auction. The auction itself was quite strong, with the bid-to-cover ratio of 3.45 comparing with the average of 2.77 over the last ten 10 year auctions.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Stock Market Rally Optical Illusions, “Oil Shocks,” and China’s Headache / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Gary_Dorsch

March 9th, marked the one-year anniversary of the elusive bottom of the most brutal bear market since the 1930’s. At the time, job losses were running in excess of 700,000 /month, and fear was rife that the US-banking system was on the verge of being nationalized. American factories and miners were using 68% of industrial capacity, the lowest level since records began in 1948. Corporate profits fell sharply for the seventh consecutive quarter, the longest losing streak since the 1930’s. The second coming of the “Great Depression” looked imminent.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Distress Signals On Financial Crisis Watch / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010

By: Jim_Willie_CB

To be sure, almost without debate, all the financial world has turned to crisis mode. One can safely describe the norm to be crisis proliferation. This theme will clearly continue for the full year in progress. The signs are everywhere. The evidence is compelling. The criticism of remedy is replete with denials. The USGovt officials grow more desperate with each passing week. The Dubai and Greek debt woes seemed to have opened Pandora's Box.