Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Volatile Stock Market Session Ends Narrowly Mixed / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices certainly had some volatility on Thursday, up sharply in the morning and down sharply in the afternoon, taking back all of the gains and then some, closing mixed on the indices at the end of the day.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Strategies for IRA Investors / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Hans_Wagner
Investing in a bear market presents new challenges for conservative investors. No one wants to loose money. Fortunately, there are safe strategies for conservative investors to continue to invest their money. This conservative investment idea is designed to save your IRA from experiencing losses during a bear market. In addition, it helps to position you for the recovery in the stock market once it begins.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Who’s Right About The Tech Stock Sector? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Tony Sagami writes: Intel wants you to believe that its PC business bottomed out in the first quarter and is about to return to normal.
“We are seeing signs that a bottom in the PC market segment has been reached. I believe the worst is now behind us from an inventory correction and demand level adjustment perspective,” Chief Executive Paul Otellini said during a recent conference call.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Market Vectors Steel Index ETF Looking Higher / Stock-Markets / Steel Sector
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The Market Vectors Steel Index ETF (NYSE: SLX) may benefit as many of the steel names look interesting on the upside, and as the Chinese equity markets are starting to heat up as well, which may be an indication that the gargantuan global (Chinese) stimulus packages are kicking in.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stock Market S&P 500 Index Internals / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Richard_Shaw
The S&P 500 (proxies SPY and IVV) staged an impressive rally today in the face of the worst GDP drop in 50 years for the first quarter, and the possibility of the second quarter being adversely impacted by a flu pandemic (now level 4 of 5).
Thursday, April 30, 2009
China Auto Market Booms Whilst Rest of the World Stuck in Reverse / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: BEIJING, The People's Republic of China - At a time when the rest of the global auto sales are experiencing their biggest declines in decades - and are set to drop at least 8% globally - the burgeoning China auto market may grow by 10% or more this year.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stocks Rise on G20 and FASB Hopes, Can Pigs Really Fly? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
The Fed / Treasury first announced that banks would be subject to stress tests back on Feb. 10, 2009. This WSJ account is the earliest mention we’ve been able to find:
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Pearls Before Swine – Perils of Free Money / Stock-Markets / Global Pandemic
By: Axel_Merk
The swine flu could not have come at a worse time. Just when there were signs of a nascent recovery, confidence takes another hit. As a result, “reflation trades” may be put on ice if investors revert to “panic mode” again. While it is difficult to assess the full economic impact of the swine flu, we believe some of the dynamics are foreshadowed. This flu may reinforce long-term trends and provide an opportunity for investors to position themselves accordingly.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stocks Piggy Back Rally on the Fed FOMC Statement / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Despite a horrific headline GDP number yesterday, the market was encouraged by the entrails, which showed consumer expenditure up by more than expected and a massive drop in inventories (which of course is required to find a new equilibrium between supply and reduced demand). The Fed also chimed in with some cheer with a more upbeat tone in their FOMC statement, while Starbucks beat street estimates. I assume the mood for the day was that the Armageddon story is off.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stock Market Another Solid Up-Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had another solid up-session, although they came way off their highs in the last hour after the FOMC announcement's brief spike-up rally.
The day started out with a gap up. They motored strongly all morning, backed and filled mid-day but held support, and then came on after the FOMC meeting, spiked up to 1398 on the Nasdaq 100 and up to 882 on the S&P 500, right near our overhead resistance levels, and then came down in a sharp 5-wave decline in the last hour, bouncing in the last 5 minutes to take back some of the losses.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Weekly Wizards on the Stock and Commodity Markets Next Move / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Weekly_Wizards
Mike Paulenoff, on the Financial and Oil & Gas ETFs
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Now that the Financial Select SPDR (XLF) has been subjected to earnings, earnings doubts, stress tests, all sorts of suspicions about the efficacy of the tests, and now leads about which bank will or might not need more capital (according to the Fed), let's notice that for the past two weeks the price pattern has carved out a high level consolidation pattern.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Nasdaq Q's Pushing Resistance / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let’s notice that the PowerShares QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQQ) is pushing up against the sharply declining 200-day moving average, now at 34.24, which if hurdled should trigger upside acceleration towards my next optimal target zone of 35.20/50. That will imbue the big picture chart of the Q’s with a similar very constructive look exhibited by Cisco (CSCO), per my posting from yesterday. I am still using 33.30 as my stop-reversal plateau.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Will Institutional Investors Kill the Stock Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
By: Marty_Chenard
As you know, we track how much Institutional Buying and Institutional Selling occurs everyday. We also track what is happening to the net value of the "core holdings" held by Institutional investors.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Stock Markets Hit by Swine flu and Stress Tests Versus Green Shoots of Recovery / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
The bulls and bears called it a draw yesterday. Despite a continued escalation in the number of reported swine flu cases, horrible numbers for US Steel and fretting over financials needing more capital, equities held up well. News that IBM is boosting its dividend and doing a buyback, improving consumer confidence numbers and data from the Case Shiller survey which pointed to the rate of decline in house prices easing off all provided a fillip.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Trading Swine Flu Short-term Market Reaction / Stock-Markets / Futures Trading
By: INO
We're often asked at MarketClub just how to play short-term pops. Regardless if you are look at stocks, futures, or the forex market, it's always the same... MarketClub Alerts.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Stock Market Indices Edge to the Downside / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets were soft today, ending in the negative column only because of a last-hour decline.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
One Way to Make a Fortune Investing in Healthcare / Stock-Markets / Healthcare Sector
By: Q1_Publishing
Andrew Grove once said, “I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude.”
Grove has been widely credited with Intel’s stunning growth over the years. His unwavering focus on “the next big thing” has allowed Intel to stay one step ahead of competitors for decades. In a period of rapid technological advancement between 1978 and 2004, that was no easy feat.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Watching the 200 DMA on Cisco CSCO & the Nasdaq Q's / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Our model portfolio position in the PowerShares QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQQ) has reversal stops at 33.27. Barring such a move to that level, the Q’s should consolidate between 34.00 and 33.30 ahead of another thrust that confronts the declining 200 DMA, now at 33.29. A sustained climb above the 200 DMA will be considered very technically significant, and will imbue the chart structure with a similar look to what Cisco (CSCO) looks like this morning. (See chart.) Cisco hurdled its 200 DMA, but let’s see if the price structure can sustain above the DMA into this evening’s close.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Wall Street Overlooking China Construction Boom / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes: I was shocked to read last week that the Great Wall of China is even greater than anybody thought. Scientists uncovered a 180-mile link of the Great Wall of China that was obscured by vegetation, silt, and sand.
But the scientists in China weren’t the only ones to unearth an important find …
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Pig Scores Bull Out of the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Despite the tabloid-like hysteria about swine flu, stocks held up reasonably well yesterday. Investors did dump the usual suspects, i.e. airline, travel, hotel and cruise stocks. GM also announced that it will slash 21k jobs and axe 40% of dealerships (shares closed up 21%). Financials were also a drag, on renewed worries that the government’s pending stress test results will force regional backs in particular to raise fresh capital. Pharma and health-care stocks were, of course, higher.