Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Cuba Your Next Offshore Investment Bonanza? / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Offshore investment is getting a bad name lately, but that’s the tax-avoidance variety. There’s another potential investment offshore, and a few elite investors are already licking their chops at the prospect. I’m talking about Cuba.
On Monday, the Obama administration lifted restrictions on Cuban-Americans who want to travel and send money to their island homeland. This is a calculated break with a half-century of U.S. policy of isolating communist Cuba.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Investors Don’t Ignore The World’s No. 2 Stock Market India / Stock-Markets / India
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Tony Sagami writes: This should be easy for many of you. Name the two fastest-growing economies in the world.
First of all, we know who they are not. They’re not any countries in North America or Europe because both of those continents are mired in painful recessions.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
The Only Western Country Where the Banks are Profitable / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market
By: Justice_Litle
If you can believe it, there is a land where the bankers are still honest and polite… and even profitable.
First, a quick corrective note. On Wednesday I said that FAZ, at more than 125 million shares traded in recent days, “had bigger trading volume than Microsoft, Intel, Exxon and IBM combined.”
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Bernanke's Conundrum and the Investment Opportunities It Creates / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Good morning!
As I head to China, I'm struck by the irony of Bernanke's continued assurances this week that he'll head off inflation by selling assets and shrinking the monetary supply when the time comes. Not because I don't believe that he'll try - he will - but because I don't think he can.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Stock Markets Rising a Wall of Worry or Slope of Hope? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Banks given a lot of slack to report better earnings. Citigroup Inc., the U.S. bank rescued by $45 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds, ended a five- quarter losing streak with a $1.6 billion profit on trading gains and an accounting benefit for companies in distress.
Citigroup posted a $2.5 billion gain from accounting rules that allow companies to profit when their own creditworthiness declines. The rules reflect the possibility that a company could buy back its own liabilities at a discount, which under traditional accounting methods would result in a profit.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Bank Real Profits By Bucking Wall Street Trends / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Investors who trade actively and are closely in touch with the ebb and flow of opinion on Wall Street have one enormous barrier to good investment performance: They will often be seduced by what’s fashionable – whether it be in terms of sectors, countries or individual stocks. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
China Exchange Traded Fund (FXI) Rises off its Double Bottom Leaving Investors Cautiously Optimistic / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Oxbury_Research
In this type of economic environment, a double bottom “bullish reversal” formation is surely a site for sore eyes. This technical pattern is made up of two consecutive troughs with a minor peak in the middle. Add that to an upside breakout of an overall downward trendline and you’re looking at some good bullishness. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Stock Market Maintains Firm Footing to Close Slightly Higher / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices managed to eke out gains at the close, but had an uneventful end to the week on options expiration day.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
The Stock Market Trend is Your Friend Until It Ends / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: John_Mauldin
In this issue: Thoughts on the Continuing Crisis
Dressing Like an Economist
The Trend Is Your Friend Until the End of the Trend
What Is Money?
MV=PQ
Two weeks ago I presented my thoughts on the current economic situation at my 6th Annual Strategic Investment Conference in La Jolla (co-hosted with Altegris Investments). The speech was well-received, at least to judge from the comment forms. So this week and next, we are going to revisit that talk (with a few edits). Let's start with a little set-up to explain the first few paragraphs.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Stock Market "Sucker-Rally-Dead-Cat" Still Yowling! Market-Long-Waves Say's "Bull-Run Warning" / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Andrew_Butter
The consensus is that the stock market rally is on it's last legs, market-long-wave analysis says different and that the markets will be 15% to 30% up on today by end 2009 and that the medium term trend is also upwards.If it were up to Sticks and Stones (can break my bones) that Cat would be road-kill by now. On the 14th March Professor Roubini pronounced the rally that started 10th March was a dead-cat-sucker-bounce.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Unfinished Business on the Upside for XLF Financial's ETF / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The pattern carved out since Tuesday’s recovery high at 11.35 argues that the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) has some unfinished business on the upside prior to the completion of the upleg from the March low at 5.88. My optimal target zone is 11.80-12.20. Only a decline that breaks 10.00 will compromise my current outlook.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 17, 2009
Powerful Cyclical Bull Market Within a Secular Bear Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Zeal_LLC
The Ostrich Investors - The withering barrage of misfortune that investors have suffered defies belief. Last year’s horrific 38.5% loss in the stock markets was one of the worst ever witnessed. And this year has offered little respite, with stocks down another 5.7% so far. Such a catastrophic loss of wealth has naturally sparked rampant bearishness, pessimism, and a pervading sense of despair.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 17, 2009
Another Late Rally Lifts Stock Market Indices / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
It seemed like déjà vu for the markets yesterday. They had a slow choppy start before a late rally resulted in more healthy gains. Traders yet again shrugged off concerns about the economy and instead bet that crucial earnings reports will impress. Consumer discretionary stocks staged the best advance with tech stocks not far behind. Will indices do it again heading into the weekend?
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Stock Market Indices Surge Out of 3-Day Downtrend, Rally to New 5-Month Highs / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
Another strong session going into options expiration tomorrow. The indices had a large gap up at the opening, backed and filled, pulled back quickly in the morning but held support. That was key. When support held they started a rally that retested the highs, backed off and then moved through them, and in the last hour spiked up, reaching new 5-month highs, at 870 on the S&P 500 and nearly 1359 on the Nasdaq 100. Only in the last 15-20 minutes did the market pull back and pare the gains.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sector Rotation Investing Strategy for Beating the Recession / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Hans_Wagner
Sector rotation is a proven strategy to beat the market. When the current economic recession ends marking the beginning of a new bull market, it will be time to enjoy benefits of a properly positioned portfolio. An analysis of the affect of the recession on each industry in the sector rotation model will create opportunities for investors.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Performance of Key Asset Types Over Several Time Frames / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
Someone on Bloomberg TV today said we have moved from an apocalyptically bearish to a reluctantly bullish market. That is probably a fair statement for the the moment. Someone else a couple of weeks ago said we have gone from a death spiral in the economy to a period of slow rate of economic decline. Then someone else said, the economy is not going up, but it is going down at sufficiently slower rate that it almost feels like up.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Bankrupt Banks to be Hit by New Wave of Losses / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Jim_Willie_CB
One must give a tip of the hat to the Wall Street conmen for engineering a reasonably robust stock rally. The Dow and S&P were led by financials. The Financial Times out of London claims ‘no real money’ was behind the stock rally of over 20%. They must mean huge short covering, enhanced by pressure tactics from Wall Street brokerages themselves. They must mean Working Group For Financial Markets putting to work some of their ‘Black Bag’ money. They must mean influenced arbitrage games from preferred versus common shares, which harmed the public but enriched the insiders. Amazing how a better financial journal on US topics comes from outside the Untied States. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Stock Sectors that Could Lead the Next Bull Market / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Guy_Lerner
If I told you that the four sectors with the most potential to undergo a secular trend change are semiconductors, housing, retail, and airlines you would probably say "wow". Certainly, that would be a good broad base rally to get excited about if these sectors could provide leadership. Of course, there is the current dynamic of an overbought market within the context of a longer term bear market, but I believe that these sectors are setting up to be the next bull market leaders.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Nasdaq Q's Powerful Bullish Setup / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Yesterday's weakness in the PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQQ) filled the up-gap left behind on last Thursday at the 31.95 open, and then reversed to the upside into a strong close. This morning's early strength continued yesterday's late rally, which now appears to represent the start of a new upleg in the aftermath of a retest of last week's upside breakout from a multi-month bottom pattern. Let's watch the action in the Q's very closely now because based purely on the developing pattern, the bulls have a VERY POWERFUL technical set-up that could trigger a panic-like climb towards a test of the sharply declining 200 DMA, now at 34.76. In other words, a 5%-6% up-spike COULD be directly ahead, and likely will conclude the Mar.-Apr. upmove.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Late Day Stock Market Rally Lifts Indices / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Markets were choppy all day yesterday until the end. Despite lacking a clear catalyst, the Dow Jones picked up over 100 points in the hour before close to finish the day up 1.38%. Just five of the index’s 30 components failed to join the rally, including three tech stocks. The bear market rally rolls on for now. Note that the Dow Futures are off about 0.8% this morning after a weak European open and Asian session.Read full article... Read full article...