Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, August 20, 2009
ETFs Investing for Inflation or Deflation / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
Ron Rowland writes: Which will it be: Inflation or deflation? And what can you do to protect yourself in either scenario?
My answer to the first question is BOTH! I think we’ll see waves of inflation as well as periods of deflation in the next decade. The bigger question is the timing.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Time of Truth for Financial Stocks XLF / Stock-Markets / Articles
The time of truth for the Financial Select Sector ETF (NYSE: XLF), which is bumping up against key near-term resistance at 14.30-14.42. If that level is hurdled, it likely will unleash additional strength that propels prices to new highs above 14.60 – towards my optimal target at 15.00/30. Conversely, inability of the XLF to hurdle and sustain above 14.30-14.42 followed by a decline that breaks 14.00 will argue that the larger corrective process off of the Aug 6th high at 14.60 remains viable and points to 13.20-13.00 prior to completion.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
China Stock Market Panic, Investors Don't Ignore! / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
Money Morning - With China’s Shanghai Composite Index (SSE) now down about 20% from its Aug. 4 peak - a decline punctuated by a 4.3% drop yesterday (Wednesday) - the Red Dragon’s stock market is technically now in bear-market territory.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Next Financial and Economic Crisis in the Making / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Claus Vogt writes: From time to time it’s necessary to get a bird’s-eye view of the financial markets. And given the market’s recent run-up, such a moment has arrived.
Let’s start with a review of what has happened up until now to get a better understanding of what will likely happen next …
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Corporate Insiders Selling Stocks , Extremely Bearish / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
We are in very good company with our bearish outlook for the stock market. Insiders at companies in the aggregate are still unloading their companies’ stock at the most rapid clip at least since October 2007, when the stock market peaked and the current, as-yet unfinished, second downleg of the Supercycle Bear Market started. (endnote 1)
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Legendary Investors Bet Big on the Inevitable Inflation / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
The most powerful people in the financial world are doing anything they can to prevent it.
Central bankers fear it. CEO’s hate it. Banks get destroyed by it.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Waiting for SDS ProShares UltraShort SPY to Fill the Upgap / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Let's notice that this morning's early weakness in the major equity market ETFs (SPY, etc) popped the ProShares UltraShort SPY (NYSE: SDS) to test last Friday''s high at 47.80 (today's high was 47.66 so far). But that is where the SDS ran out of steam, and since has reversed all the way back down to probe yest.'s low at 46.45 (so far this AM's low is 46.59), all of which leaves behind a wide three day range of about $1.20.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Stock and Financial Markets Walking a Dangerous Inflation/ Deflation Tightrope / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Timing, Perspective... When it comes to engaging financial markets, timing is everything. When and where does one enter or exit, what are his or her objectives, and what frame of reference does one use to make such decisions. Answers to the above are essential prior to committing speculative funds against any given timeframe or set of objectives one may consider.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Grab Your Shorts, the Stock Market Correction Has Begun / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
As I’ve noted in previous essays, this stock market rally has come much too far, much too fast. All told the S&P 500 is up over 48% since the March lows. This is unprecedented in the post-WWII era.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Stock Market Indices Snapback, though Resistance Repels Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The markets snapped back today and failed to follow-through to the downside, but at the end of the day, despite the rally, the indices did nothing more than retest the resistance zones and breakdown points.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
How to Profit as Consumers Tighten Their Purse Strings / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010
If you're expecting a brief round of belt-tightening before things return to normal, you'll be disappointed. It's time to get defensive, says David Stevenson.
A seismic shift is starting, both in Britain and America, in the way that people spend – or save – their cash. And it could flag the biggest change in consumer behaviour for 50 years.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Is the Great Stocks Bear Market Over? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Is this the end of the great bear market rally?
Markets across the world took a tumble yesterday, with the FTSE 100 ending down 1.5% at 4,645, and the Dow Jones off by nearly 200 points. So why the big slide? As with most such market moves, there were plenty of stories you could pin the fall on after the fact.
Japan exited recession, but the second quarter GDP figures weren’t as good as hoped. Economic data in the States disappointed on Friday. The Chinese stock market is slipping back into bear market territory. Take your pick.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Madmen and Government Regulations / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
Jeffrey Tucker writes: The AMC's Madmen, themed around New York advertising executives in the 1960s, captivates viewers for its plots, fashions, shocking levels of political incorrectness, and, most of all, because of the way its draws viewers so closely into a world of the early 1960s that they never knew.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Financial Crisis Worst is Not Over Warns Robert Prechter / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Stock Market Leadership Ratio Chart, Part1 / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
On our daily Leadership Ratio chart, we measure the strength of the Leadership stocks and compare them to the strength of the Broad Market stocks. We then divide the two numbers and create a Ratio that shows if the Leaders are moving forward or retreating relative to the Broad Market stocks.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Nasdaq Triggers Major Trade Signal / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
They Say That Timing In Life Is Everything
Well here I am at my vacation home in Maine watching the markets go crazy. Yes, we are so lucky to have access to the Internet and to the markets themselves no matter where we are in the world.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
How to Profit From China's High Speed Rail Infrastructure Projects / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
Jason Simpkins writes: Understanding that high-speed rail (HSR) could provide millions of Americans with a cleaner, more efficient way to travel, President Barack Obama allocated $13 billion to its development over the next five years as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) passed in February.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Canadian Dollar Rattled by Shanghai Stock Meltdown / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market
Bullish investors betting on a V-shaped recovery for the global stock markets are convinced the worst of the global economic crisis is over, and furthermore, expect the emerging economic giants, - Brazil, China, India, Russia, and Korea, (BRICK) to become the locomotives of global growth. With China and India leading the way, the notion of decoupling, - emerging markets advancing faster than developed markets, - and even pulling the G-7 economies out of recession, is making a comeback.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Stock Bull Market Delusions In Recovery / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The last major stock market ‘recovery’ in the U.S. started after the October 9, 2002 ‘bottom’ and lasted 5-years and 2-days. Total gain: 103%. Unfortunately, by November 21, 2008 all of these ‘gains’ had been lost, thus rendering the 2002 ‘bottom’ open to interpretation.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
The Three Bears Who Forecast the Goldilocks Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Charles Nenner, former Goldman Sachs market timing analyst, uses cycles, technical analysis, and a macro approach to time myriad markets. He called for a 2007 market top at around Dow 14,300. In 2008, he warned of a 30%+ decline in equities and in February of this year, he called for a large rally to take us to S&P 1000.
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