Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, August 06, 2009
Main Resistance Level Still Holds for S&P 500 Stocks Index / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The main resistance level of about 1000 continues to hold for the S&P 500. This line is the barrier that has held the broad-based index since October 2008. As the new 4-month trading cycle began in early July, time is slowly running out for any additional advance. The mid-point of the cycle is in late August. This means that downward pressure can be expected to build in the second half of the cycle which is September and October.
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
Investing in the Frontier Emerging Markets with ETFs / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
Ron Rowland writes: As a Money and Markets reader, you probably know an awful lot about “emerging markets.” They’re the countries that aren’t quite as modernized as the U.S. but are developing fast: China, Brazil, India, Russia, etc.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Stock Market Indices Finally Give a Little Back / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The indices finally suffered a down day, but even with that they rallied back late in the afternoon to pare the losses.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Stock Market Investing, The Thrill of a Lifetime? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
Anyone looking for thrills these days should forget roller coasters and skydiving. Instead, simply buy a few shares of U.S. stock. The past year has reminded us how truly stomach-churning the financial ride can be. And after a white-knuckled drop in 2008, investors who held on are now enjoying a dizzying ascent. In the past five months alone, the S&P has risen by 22 percent and the NASDAQ by 33 percent. Emerging markets are back almost to their pre-recession levels. Even individual American stocks have performed in a stellar manner. Apple, Cisco and Oracle have all risen by over 200 percent. Ford, an aging relic once given up for dead, has risen by 268 percent!
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Thoughts on the Next Decade of Market Performance / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
Last month I posted a poll on my website www.avaresearch.com asking readers by how much the U.S. stock market would return on average, annually over the next ten years. The results were a bit surprising.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Financial Sector Stocks XLF ETF Nearing a Peak? / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks
Now that the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) has climbed to my optimal next upside target zone 13.80-14.00 (I took my profit late yesterday), let's notice that the price structure has climbed vertically towards the top trendline of the July bullish price channel. My near term work aruges that we should expect a peak in and around the 14.00-14.20 area in the upcoming hours, which could coincide with the rebalance of Citigroup (C) after the close this evening. C is going into the S&P 500, and supposedly The Street must buy 650 million shares to "rebalance" their index portfolios.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Goldman Sachs the Great American Financial Markets Bubble Machine / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
Matt Taibbi writes: From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
The Next Stock Market Panic is Here! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
We’re in the midst of the next stock market panic and no one is paying attention.
Worst of all, it will be the type of panic that will take more folks by surprise and, in the end, will turn out to be more costly to most investors than last fall’s market sell-off.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Consumer Confidence and Stock Market Investor Sentiment Indicators / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
The broad consumer confidence index reported a decline below the 50% level on July 28. Let’s see how some other dimensions of confidence look.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Stock Market Signals a Medium-Term Rally / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
Claus Vogt writes: In last week’s Money and Markets column, I talked about probabilities. And I explained why I expect the current stock market rally to have legs. This market call, however, is valid for just a few quarters …
My long-term outlook hasn’t changed one iota!
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Investment Grade Value Stock Index (IGVSI) Soars 24% / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The Investment Grade Value Stock Index is a barometer of a small but elite sector of the stock market. Some Investment Grade Value Stocks are included in all averages and indices, but even the Dow Jones Industrial Average includes several issues that are below Investment Grade and very few boast an A+ S & P rating.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Stocks Bear Market NOT Over, Stocks WILL Crash this Fall! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Yesterday we detailed the different between this current economic contraction, and your usual run of the mill plain vanilla recessions. We also went over the MASSIVE consumer credit contraction that needs to occur before American households have finished de-leveraging.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Runaway Stock Markets Relentlessly Moving Higher / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Are you waiting for that pullback to get into stocks ? Nervous of missing out ? This is what a lot of investors certainly feel like. For several stock market updates, we have told subscribers repeatedly what we think about the recent strong upmove and its psychological implications:
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Stock Market Bubble-Mania in China Spreads to Global Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
The S&P-500 Index, a global bellwether for the world stock markets, extended its best five-month winning streak since 1938, by advancing through the psychological 1,000-level, and is up nearly 50% from its 12-year low set on March 10th. The S&P-500 gained 7.4% in July, its best monthly performance since 1997, even as average earnings per-share tumbled -32% and sales slid -16% from a year ago.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The Next Three Government-Backed Asset Bubbles Unveiled / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
The good times are back!
U.S. GDP declined at a mere 1% annualized rate, after inflation, between April and June.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Burning Fiat Paper Financial Casles / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
‘Its only castles burning’ – A piercing lyric central to a Neal Young classic and also an appropriate sentiment with respect to the paper castles burning in the world of finance these days. Whether it’s a result of inflation or deflation – value is being lost – paper is burning – to reflect the value that never was. Our service-based economy is all an illusion you see, poised to burn like Rome at its turn, in grand scale. This what happens in fiat currency economies, where paper castles that are built on whims and flap in the wind, easily susceptible to the first spark that comes along. So, don’t let such an outcome bring you down, find something that is turning (protect you) – that being gold – and you will come around just fine.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Surging Commodity Prices Could Crush the Stock Market Recovery / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Stock markets around the world had another rip-roaring day yesterday.
The S&P 500 traded above 1,000 for the first time since November. The FTSE 100 hit its highest point since October.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
For Stock Markets It Seems the Only Way is UP / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The markets summer of love with stocks continued unabated yesterday as the S&P topped 1,000 and the Nasdaq pushed through the 2,000 barrier for the first time since October. Yesterday’s fresh catalyst was Ford’s bullish sales report (up 2.4% YOY, their 1st monthly rise since Nov 2000) and a better than expected jump in manufacturing ISM (which was no clunker, see below), while renewed gains in commodities and oil (above $71 barrel) cheered producers.
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Monday, August 03, 2009
Financial Market Forecasts 2009 Update, Gold Ready For $1,000/oz / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
This is a follow up to the Q1 2009 Summary On Gold And Various Markets issued on March 31, 2009 ( http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article9800.html)
In the first quarter of 2009, we reached the climax of US banking collapse. Global central banks hurried to apply fiscal and monetary stimulus, including unconventional "Quantitative Easing", which entail ed the printing of over $1.5 trillion to buy troubled mortgage and derivative assets. Our conclusion then was
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Monday, August 03, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Not Over And Stock Markets Will CRASH This Fall / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
A lot of commentators have begun heralding a new bull market in stocks. Day after day, I hear that March was THE bottom, that the next bull market has begun, and that anyone betting on another collapse is a moron.
These claims are not only wrong, they are completely misleading and should be depicted for what they are: nonsensical hype from sources with conflicted interests: folks whose jobs and income stem largely from people remaining bullish.
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