Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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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.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Massive Mystery Options Play Hints at a Bearish Stock Market End to 2009 / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Money_Morning

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: With the Standard & Poor's 500 Index up 47% from the lows it reached in March, many investors are feeling intense relief.

But with one or more institutional traders making bets that suggest a bearish end to 2009, the question becomes: How do you read this information and what do you do about it?

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Have The Stock Market Bulls Gone On Holiday / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: PaddyPowerTrader

The bulls have finally gone on holiday as investors deem it prudent to take some risk off the table ahead of the Fed’s pronouncements tonight post 7pm and the retails sales number due Thursday 13.30. Double the expected drop in wholesale inventories and marked weakness in financials were the main culprit with Citibank down after being sued by seven Norwegian local authorities on the back of some alleged mis-selling of derivatives.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Credit Markets Driven by Fundamentals or Too Much Liquidity? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009

By: RGE_Monitor

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Nasdaq QQQQ Chart Shows Bearish Set-Up / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The PowerShares QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQQ) has been trading beneath key near-term support at 39.20 this morning, which suggests that the market is consolidating ahead of more weakness rather than digesting its losses ahead of a recovery bounce.  While it may be too premature to make the call for more weakness directly ahead, we need to be aware that so far today’s intraday profile is setting up for a bearish afternoon session – in particular, the final two hours of trading. 

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Government Bailout's Implications for Future Stock Market Trend / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Mike_Shedlock

Inquiring minds are reading Cash for Clunkers Is Just a Broken Windshield by Caroline Baum. It's the best trashing to date of the "cash for clunkers" program.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Annual Survey of Investment Asset Peformance for 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Michael_J_Kosares

The One-Year Survey - There is an old saying that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed jack is king. Similarly, in the land of little or no yield and plunging asset values, there is something to be said for that which holds its own, as gold did in USAGOLD's Annual Survey of Investments for 2009.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Betting Against Leveraged Stock Market Traders / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Guy_Lerner

By now you should know that one of my favorite aspects of the Rydex data is the amount of assets in the bullish and leveraged funds versus the amount of assets in the leveraged and bearish funds. Not only do we get to see what direction these market timers think the market will go, but we also get to see how much conviction (i.e., leverage) they have in their beliefs. See figure 1 a daily graph of the S&P500 (symbol: $INX) with the Rydex leveraged bulls (green line) versus the leveraged bears (red line) in the lower panel. Typically, we want to bet against the Rydex market timer even though they only represent a small sample of the overall market.