Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
What Can Movies Tell You About the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: EWI
The following article is adapted from a special report on "Popular Culture and the Stock Market" published by Robert Prechter, founder and CEO of the technical analysis and research firm Elliott Wave International. Although originally published in 1985, "Popular Culture and the Stock Market" is so timeless and relevant that USA Today covered its insights in a recent Nov. 2009 article. For the rest of this revealing 50-page report, download it for free here.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Stock Market Buying The Dip..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The market started to sell today. Finally!! We started fairly flat but then started heading down with the Nasdaq leading the way, which made sense since it has been the leader on the way up in this bull market. What leads up is the most overbought thus it's likely that it'll lead down to unwind those oscillators. However, a funny thing happened, yet again, when this market tried to sell off. It couldn't stand the selling. Very unusual to say the least. This market was at extreme levels of overbought coming in to today thus when it started to sell it made sense that the selling would stick and it seemed that it would. A few buying attempts were thwarted down by the bears, making today seem as if it would be a trend down day.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Stock Market Constructive Pullback Could Create Buying Opportunities / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: David_Grandey
The S&P 500 hit resistance at 1150 last week and is now pulling back. It's all about the trend channels at this point.
Bottom line this overbought condition when viewing the 60 minute charts gets worked off by either going sideways or a pullback to trend channel support.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
When Stock Market Fiction Meets Economic Reality / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Captain_Hook
There is no end to speculation concerning the stock market at present, with everything from credible crash calls to major gold stock rallies lying directly ahead. So the question begs, as fortunes are at stake, which view is correct – which view is fiction and which is reality? In my view, and although more upside might indeed exist for stocks prior to a reckoning (due to the lagged effects of money supply growth), the fiction that has become our reality, which is our fiat currency economy, is now hitting the wall in terms of constraints, which will be the stock market’s undoing.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Indices and Component Stocks Charts Analysis of the Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
In today’s Charts of the Week, we first continue our discussion from last week about the Shanghai Composite Daily as compared to the S&P 500 and the implications for commodities. Then we look at some momentum indices (transportation, technology and financials), and apply Bollinger Band analysis to examine the near-term trends of both these indices and their key component stocks.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Stock Market S&P 500 Uptrend Concerns / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: INO
This week could be shaping up to be an extraordinary week in the markets. I strongly recommend that traders everywhere take precautionary measure measures to protect capital.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Marc Faber Says We're All Doomed and Washington Can't Do Anything About it / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Submissions
Washington is patting itself on the back for having orchestrated an amazing economic recovery. But Washington lawmakers are a delusional bunch of boneheads, say Marc Faber and Mike "Mish" Shedlock, editor of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report and investment advisor at SitkaPacific Capital Management, respectively.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 15, 2010
Stock Bulls Winning Market Tug of War / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Stocks rose briskly last week, resulting in a big week for the major market indexes. Weekly and monthly index charts improved, and such major U.S. stocks as The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Apple Inc. (AAPL), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) emerged from flat-lining or faltering price patterns on decent, if not outstanding, volume.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Stock Market Bulls Remain in Control! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Piazzi
Last week, bulls dominated the market. Keeping the pressure on the shorts, they did not give anything back – not even and intraday pullback.
The trading pattern of last week was quite simple and elegant
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
China Joins Inflation Mega-Trend, Stock Market Drifts Higher Into Resistance, Delaying Correction? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The stock market drifted higher all week with the Dow closing up at 10625, meanwhile the FTSE raced ahead to a new bull market high of 5625, which is not surprising given the fact that the FTSE is mostly populated with international companies with a large % of overseas earnings, therefore a 10% drop in sterling makes these stocks 10% cheaper hence the out performance of the nominal indices.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Stock Market Upward Trend, No Pullback / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Peter_Navarro
This week I would like to pick at least a small fight with one of my favorite columnists, Michael Santoli of Barron's magazine. In his March 15, 2010 column, Santoli used his so-called Mystery Broker to predict a market pullback in the range of about 10%.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
US Retail Stocks Sector Surges. Consumer Confidence Returns / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Donald_W_Dony
In the February newsletter I highlighted the consistent upward strength of the S&P Retail Index. This leading indicator of consumer confidence and thus economic health, had consistently outperformed many industry sectors throughout 2009 and also the broad-based S&P 500. Fundamental data generally looked unimpressive last year and many market watchers doubted the return of this important industry.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Stock Market Rally Sustainable For Another 2-3 weeks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
Very Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles have taken over 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
Sunday, March 14, 2010
U.S. Financial System is On the Edge of Default / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Bob_Chapman
The dramatic and costly undertow of deflation continues unabated, as government via fiscal policy and the Federal Reserve, by creating money and credit out of thin air, proceed to overpower this deflation with massive inflation.
Unbeknownst to most the Fed and the Treasury have been maintaining this program for the past several years, accompanied by most major countries, all of which have taken the path of least resistance rather than address the underlying problems.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Stock Markets Push to New Highs Despite Lingering Credit Crisis and Recession Reminders / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
Shrugging off some lingering reminders of the credit crisis and recession, investors last week marked the one-year anniversary of the bear market low by pushing many benchmark equity indices to cycle highs.
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.
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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.