Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Stock Market Lateral Consolidation Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

No one and I mean no one can deny that this market has done a great job of frustrating both bulls and bears alike. Bad news gets absorbed by the market without any real down side action. How annoying was Thursday for bears! Horrific numbers on the retail sales front. The market falls some only to recover late and show gains. With gains in retail sales expected and with losses the actual outcome, it's hard to imagine being short this report and having to cover or even if you didn't, you had to deal with an up market in a down report. No fun.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Secular Stocks Bear Market Phasing / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Tim_Wood

It seems that everyone is pretty well convinced that we are now operating within the context of a “new bull market.”   Rally, yes, and this was no surprise to me or my subscribers.   But, “new bull market,” I think not.  Let me clarify my position on this advance.  

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Financial Armageddon Part Two: Securitization Is Too Big To Fail So The Racketeering Must Stop! / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009

By: Andrew_Butter

Armageddon Part One is over. The question, like a hurricane, is whether the US is now in the eye of the storm or is it plain sailing from here on? The "navigators" are mumbling something about "all clear", but then that's what they mumbled last time.

Follow the money… how much money got "pumped" into the US economy after the start of the credit crunch compared to before? It's a little confusing:

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Wall Streets Latest Trick To Generate Profits- High Frequency Trading / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Money_Morning

Martin Hutchinson writes: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) disclosed recently that it had 46 "$100 million trading days" in the second quarter of 2009. That was a record number, even for one of the biggest players on Wall Street.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Investor Tool and Strategy for Coping with the Fed Led Cartels Market Manipulations / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds

By: DeepCaster_LLC

(WARNING: Leveraged ETF's are EXTREME HIGH RISK)

“The only thing more certain than Death and Taxes is that when anyone from the Federal Reserve speaks or writes, it is with the specific purpose of misguiding the public,” - John Pugsley, Chairman, The Sovereign Society

Savvy Investors and Traders now have a relatively new Tool to help them combat the Fed-led Cartel’s* market manipulations (see below), and especially in the Markets typically targeted by The Cartel – Precious Metals and Strategic Commodities.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Nasdaq Still Waiting to Resolve Bull Market or Bear Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Marty_Chenard

One week has passed, and it has not yet been resolved ...

Many investors believe the current NASDAQ 100 run-up has been a Bull market rally. Others think it has been a Bear market rally. What's the answer?

Friday, August 14, 2009

Too Much Bullish Stock Market Sentiment? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment

By: Sy_Harding

By far the majority with skin in the game of investing have little or no interest in the details of how their money is treated when left on its own.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Stock Markets Continue To Defy Gravity And Logic / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

So when did the US market ever start caring about Europe where allegedly the recession is over. Odd that it sure doesn’t feel like a Renaissance on Main Street. US Retail sales (yes the US consumer is still approx 70% of the economy) were a total disaster, jobless claims jumped and foreclosures are a record high, but yet the market ended up because of “better than expected” earnings from Wal-Mart and legendary investor John Paulsen taking a stake in Bank of America and Regions Financial. Downright perverse. The decoupling of the market from the real economy seems to be at all time highs.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Before You Think of Going Short the Stock market index / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Andrew_Abraham

How many Stock market Bears are itching to go short the stock market index? Probably too many to count. However regardless of all the fundamental reasons and thoughts to blindly go short the stock market index, this is not prudent. One could possibly listen to Paul Tudor Jones who thinks this is a bear market rally. BTW.. Paul Tudor Jones made a fortune predicting the stock market index would crash in 1987.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Financial Collapse in the Wake of the Fed's Wall Street Bubble? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009

By: Global_Research

Bob Chapman writes: History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it’s issuance.” - James Madison 

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Financials Stocks Catch a Bid / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Thanks to publicity of the Paulson & Co., 13F filing, which shows a substantially long position in Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), the Financial Sector Sector ETF (NYSE: XLF) has caught a bid here this morning, which extends its upmove off of yesterday’s pullback low at 13.70. 

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Top Six ETFs Active Investors Should Know / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds

By: Money_and_Markets

Ron Rowland writes: Every week in my Money and Markets column, I try to show you how to boost your portfolio by using exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Today I’m giving you an assignment: Know your ETFs.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Fed Helps the Stock Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

The Dow Jones surged yet another 120 points yesterday on the back of existing home sales which rose more than expected (due to lower prices). They stayed perky after the Fed assured us that the US economy was levelling out and that they weren’t taking away that summer punch bowl during 2009 as there is no sign of inflationary pressures.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

The Case for Market Timing / Stock-Markets / Forecasts & Technical Analysis

By: Mike_Stathis

To those of you who say it's impossible to time or forecast the market; to those of you who keep wasting your time reading and watching the clowns positioned as so-called "experts" by the media; I ask you where have their forecasts been?  

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Just Who’s Buying This Stock Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Graham_Summers

Roughly 30% of US household wealth was destroyed by the collapse in housing and the 2008 Crash. Currently it stands at about $15 trillion, down % from $22 trillion at the 2007 peak. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll call this “assets.”

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Investors Could Make a Fortune in the Hybrid Electric Car Market / Stock-Markets / US Auto's

By: Q1_Publishing

It’s the single best way to make a fortune investing.

It works in any market too.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Stock Market Still Positive, but Weakening? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Marty_Chenard

It is probably not a bad way to describe the market right now ... still positive, but weakening.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Financial Markets Behaviour of 2009 Tracking that of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Graham_Summers

Ok, now I’m starting to get spooked.

Long-time readers know that I’ve frequently commented on the eerie similarities between how the financial markets behaved in 2008 and 2009. However, at this point, things are beginning to border on “conspiracy theorist.”

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Stock Markets at Another Critical Juncture / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Guy_Lerner

I use the quotations because the markets are always at another one of those "critical" junctures, and I just laugh to myself as I wonder at how critical can "critical" be. But maybe this juncture is more critical than others because after multiple bubbles and tremendous wealth destruction, analysts are once again pounding the table that the "mother of all bull markets" lies ahead, and investors, who have been burned for 10 years running, are being asked to come to the party. Again!

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Brazil One of the Hottest Economies on the Planet for Investors / Stock-Markets / Brazil

By: Money_Morning

Jason Simpkins writes: Brazilians used to joke that their country was the country of the future - and always would be because a new crisis seemed to crop up every time the economy came close to fulfilling its potential.

But given the economy's strong performance following the financial meltdown that crushed economies the world over, it looks like Brazil's time is now.