Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Sunday, September 06, 2009
Financial Crisis, US Market Trends / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Bob_Chapman
Planned job cuts by US employers fell to 76,456 in August, down 21% from 97,373 in July says, Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Although job cuts slowed they are up 1.07 million from January through August - 60% higher yoy.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Five More Banks Go Bust, Stocks Retrace as Gold Breaks Out / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Five more failed banks!
These are taken from the FDIC Failed Bank List. No further comment is necessary.
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
Stock Market Critical Support Holds..... Consolidation Continues... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
A very interesting week has concluded with the market doing its usual number of head fakes both up and down, but with the greatest frustration, unquestionably felt by the bears who really had their hands around the neck of the bulls but simply couldn't get the job done. Something that has taken place many times over the past many weeks.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Stock Markets Bounce on U.S. NFP Unemployment Data / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Employment Situation is less than meets the eye. - Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in August (-216,000), and the unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Although job losses continued in many of the major industry sectors in August, the declines have moderated in recent months.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Stock Market Hits Major Resistance, A Time for Caution and Respect / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Marty_Chenard
It has been a rally with no significant upside resistance for the S&P 500 ... until now.
In 2007, the market started its journey down in a ride where many investors where afraid to jump off of the moving train. Since March of this year, many have left their fear behind as the S&P moved up once again in a rally with Government and Fed rhetoric singing songs of "the recession is over".
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Prechter Stands Alone Again... He's Done the Math / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: EWI
Neil Beers writes: So Bob Prechter is bearish again.
That may be no surprise to some, but recall that Prechter was about the only bull on February 23 of this year when he covered the short position he had recommended on July 17, 2007. That was nearly two years later and 800 points lower in the S&P. And the Daily Sentiment Index (DSI) reading for the S&P had gotten down to only 3% bulls!
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Will the Stock Market Also Defy September History? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Sy_Harding
The market has done quite a job of ignoring its history so far this year.
It experienced a sizable loss of 25% in January and February, during its usually positive winter months, not launching into a sizable rally until March (while still in its historically favorable period).
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Stock Market Bulls Jump in on Light Volume / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mark_McMillan
We continue to be patient with our positions moving slightly against us. The very light trading volume seen makes it difficult to believe in this modest move. Our BIAS is still bullish so we continue to monitor the market moves to determine whether we will be forced to move back into a long position.
Friday, September 04, 2009
How Overpriced Is The Stock Market S&P 500 Index? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are wondering How Overpriced Is The S&P?
It's an excellent question given bulls feel the market is headed much higher while the bears feel the opposite after a remarkable 50% rally.
Friday, September 04, 2009
The Ten Rules of Silver Investing / Stock-Markets / Gold & Silver 2009
By: David_Morgan
The following is a recent interview l did with Ellis Martin on the first rule of silver investing. As you will read, we got off topic but did cover a great deal of current concerns of investors.
Ellis Martin: Many years ago you were asked to write the ten rules of silver investing. Let’s start with that today. Rule Number One, when all else fails, there is silver . . . ?
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Friday, September 04, 2009
The Rate of Inflation and the Stock Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Andrew_Abraham
The million dollar question what is real? The rate of inflation or a new stock market rally?
We are bombarded on CNBC or Bloomberg with one speaker after another stating… No INFLATION! The Rate of Inflation is nothing…or the average inflation will be minus x %. At the same time we hear speakers after speakers discuss green shoots …that the recession is over etc.
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Stock Market Bounce Day 2 / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jay_DeVincentis
The market is poised for Friday action.
Stock Barometer Analysis
The barometer is in Sell Mode.
Friday, September 04, 2009
Unwinding..... Stock Market Bearish Case Takes A Bit Of A Hit... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
The bearish case, which just a few days ago, looked pretty good, now has a bit of a problem. Let me first say that the bearish case is far from dead. There are lots of possibilities out there that can play out bearishly but the near term picture has changed a bit. The biggest headache for the bears is the fact that we had some very overbought daily charts with some nasty negative divergences in place. These charts have really unwound most of the overbought conditions and the Macd's have thus pulled way down, working off those nasty divergences.
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Stock Market Strong Snapback Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had a strong snapback off early losses that held support and at the end burst through 3-day resistance and closed at the session highs going away.
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Friday, September 04, 2009
When it Comes to China, Australia Shows Investors How to Maximize Profits / Stock-Markets / Resources Investing
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: A $15 billion deal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) involving Australia, China and global-oil heavyweight Exxon-Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) has prompted many investors to worry that China may be using its global-markets muscle to "paper over" cracks in the global economy.
Friday, September 04, 2009
1930's Depression Bear Market a Plausable Reality for Todays Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Joseph_Russo
Half Empty circa 1930
In similar fashion to the present wisdom held by the majority of professionals, it is with certainty that the majority of those embedded in the ’29 quagmire viewed their 48% V-shape rally in the Dow as the start of a full economic recovery, an end to the crisis, and a sure sign of a permanent return to prosperity.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Banking Sector Practices, Sure It’s Legal… But Is It RIGHT? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Graham_Summers
Folks, I’d like to ask your indulgence today. Typically we reserve these pages for in-depth analysis of the stock market and economy. But I’ve grown FED UP with the complete lack of coverage that one area of the current crisis has received.
Ever since the Financial system started imploding in July 2007, I’ve heard countless folks talk about liquidity, bull markets, bear markets, the dollar, bailouts, etc. But there’s one thing I’ve heard virtually NO ONE talk about. That is:
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Stock Market The Insider Selling Fallacy Exposed / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
By: Q1_Publishing
The market rally has been strong and the bears continue to look for anything that could signal the downturn they’ve been waiting for months on to come.
The latest “it makes sense on paper” market myth the bears have clung onto has been insider trading activity.
Insider trading is when corporate insiders like directors and executives buy or sell their own companies stock. It’s legal, regulated, and the insiders must disclose within four days of when they buy or sell their companies shares.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
World Wide Stock Market Crash on Pause / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Investmentscore.com
Don't Be So Sure - Things Aren't Exactly 'Normal' - Starting in late 2007 and through 2008 a historic, worldwide market crash brought some of the largest corporations in the world to their knees. Between bankruptcies and bailouts, many massive financial institutions have been struggling simply to keep alive. Trillion dollar currency markets have been thrashing up and down like penny stocks. The largest housing bubble in history has popped with governments intervening and thereby prolonging the effects. Worldwide trillions of dollars in market equity has been lost.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Stock Market Sector Investing, Use Fundamental or Technical Analysis? / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Hans_Wagner
Sector rotation investing is a successful strategy that takes advantage of the stages of the business cycle to identify industry groups that are more likely to outperform the market in each stage. Sam Stovall helped to highlight the value of sector rotation investing with his book titled Standard & Poor's Guide to Sector Investing 1995.