
Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, December 26, 2008
When Can We Expect A Sustainable Stock Market Price Move? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Guy_Lerner
Most market participants seem to focus on picking that elusive bottom. You here it on CNBC all the time and just about everywhere you go after the market has a good pop off its lows: Is this the bottom?Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, December 26, 2008
Financial Markets and Economic Potpourri December 26, 2008 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Mike_Shedlock

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Christmas Stocking Filler New Year Investment Bargains / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Sean Brodrick writes: It's Christmas Eve. And I hope you're having a happy holiday. Your shopping for loved ones should be done now. So let's turn to the other kind of shopping you might be thinking about … buying undervalued stocks.
After all, the New Year is just around the corner. And as we bid a “good riddance” to 2008, it's time to pick potential bargains for 2009.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Stock Markets Santa Rally Fails to Materialise / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: PaddyPowerTrader

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Top Financial Markets Stories of 2008 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Andy_Sutton

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Stock Markets Still Waiting for Santa Claus Rally / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets started out with a nice push higher early on, as futures were higher before the opening. They stair-stepped up in a small 5-wave advance and reached 1205 on the Nasdaq 100 and 880 on the S&P 500, but weren't able to do much more after the first hour. They then rolled over hard in the morning, bounced around during mid-day, couldn’t mount an advance, and then rolled over and made session lows with about an hour to go. Over the last hour they did come back a bit, but not enough to save the day.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
U.S. Fed Destined To Become World's Largest Auto Dealership / Stock-Markets / US Auto's
By: Mike_Shedlock
Not content with merely throwing money at the automakers, the Fed has new plans to become the world's largest auto dealership. Details of the plan were buried in this announcement: Fed Opens TALF Loans to All Borrowers, Extends Term .
The Federal Reserve revised its $200 billion program aimed at reviving credit to consumers and small businesses, extending the term of loans to three years from one year.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Market Forecasts 2009- Gold to Soar, U.S. Dollar and Treasury Bonds Crash / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Clive_Maund

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Mike Paulenoff Forecasts for Gold, Oil & Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Technical strategist Mike Paulenoff, author of MPTrader.com, shares his chartwork early Tuesday on gold, oil, and equity indices ahead of the Christmas holiday.
Gold: Although I have no desire to be exposed to the gold market over the holiday week, my work is setting up for a continuation to the downside of last week's initial pullback from 86.91 to 81.74 in the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSE: GLD). At the very least, the GLD should retest 81.74, which if violated will trigger additional weakness that presses the ETF towards key near-term support at 80.00-79.00. That also happens to coincide with the area that is first of a series of unfilled up-gaps left behind during the early December upmove from 72.91 to 86.91.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Stock Markets in Christmas Wind Down Mode / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: PaddyPowerTrader

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Financial Markets Review 2008 and Forecasts For 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Armstrong_Davis
What a year! Where are we?
Financial advice - Everyone’s saying ‘thank goodness that year’s over! Phew! That was terrible’. Of course, they’re also saying ‘No-one could possibly have predicted the downturn, the housing crash, the stock market collapse etc’.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Stock Market Late Snapback Rally Pares Losses / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets had another negative session to start the week. They were down for most of the session and stair-stepped lower until about a half hour to go. Then they staged a very strong snapback rally, taking back half the losses on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, and three-quarters of the losses on the Dow.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 22, 2008
Stock Market Dangerous Developments as Corporate Earnings Contract / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Brian_Bloom
“One swallow does not a summer make”. (Aristotle) That may be true, but it’s possible that I saw two swallows today, and “summer” is not the season occupying my mind at present.
First, there were reports from across the Northern Hemisphere (USA, Canada, Europe and China) that the sudden cold weather “shouldn’t” be as cold as is being experienced. Commentators are clearly surprised by the ferocity of the savagely cold weather in an era of so-called “man-made global warming”.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Why Credit Crisis Bail-outs are Bad News for Investors / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: MoneyWeek
The banks were too big to fail. Everyone agreed on that, it seemed.
But once you give one lot of badly run, bust companies a bail-out, it becomes a lot harder to justify knocking back the rest. And soon everyone has their hand out.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Auto Bailout Fails To Cheer the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: PaddyPowerTrader

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Monday, December 22, 2008
Why Falling VIX Could Mean NO Stock Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Volatility
By: Marty_Chenard
The answer to a subscriber's puzzling question: "The VIX goes down, and the S&P moves up. The VIX goes up, and the S&P goes down. But, sometimes the VIX goes down and instead of going up, the S&P moves in a sideways trading range . Can you tell me why?" Thanks, DJ
Thanks for the question, it is an important one because if you don't understand why, then you will not trust the VIX (Volatility Index) as an indicator. Investors need to trust their indicators, and when they can't trust them, they need to know why.
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Gold and Stock Market Bear Attack Warning / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Chris_Vermeulen

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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Zero Interest Rates, Plunging Bond Yields, Slumping Oil Price, Stocks Santa Rally? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
“Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity [greed!] is what is doing us in,” said James Reston , former New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Another chapter in dealing with the current credit and economic adversity was written on Tuesday when the US Federal Reserve announced a no-holds-barred set of measures in a determined attempt to fix the broken credit machine, revive economic activity and stem the deflationary tide.
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Stock Market Santa Rally Due to Begin / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Burk
The good news is: A Santa Clause rally is due to begin Wednesday.
Short Term - Seasonal considerations overwhelm everything else.
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Stock, Commodities, and Bond Markets 2008 Review / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Richard_Shaw
A high altitude view of global markets can be gleaned from monitoring a relatively small group of broad index funds. We think these ten asset categories and related proxy ETFs, provide a quick summary overview of world markets.
Certainly, more granularity could be more helpful, but these ten major asset categories are a good place to start.
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