Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Stock Market Excellent Follow-Through Session / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Harry_Boxer
We had an excellent follow-through day to the rally on Friday. The indices gapped up at the opening, did have a quick pullback but held, and then came on very strongly. By late morning we had a pretty sharp pullback for about 20 minutes, but they held intraday moving averages, bounced and then made successively higher lows and higher high all afternoon until they finally spiked up with about 15 minutes to go at the session highs. At that point the Dow was up nearly 550 points, but they pulled back sharply over a 10- minute period, and with about 5 minutes to go, jumped back again.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 24, 2008
A Stocks Bull and Bear Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
By: Paul_J_Nolte
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue! Up until Friday, last week was a pretty bad year, down over 13% and the specter of another US bank hitting the ropes along with most, if not all the auto companies sent investors running for the safety of government bonds. The yields are now below 0.05% on 3-6 month bills (that is NOT a misprint!). By Thursday's close, the markets had erased all of the gains from the bull market of '03-'07 and pushed the SP500 down to levels that were first breached during April of '07. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 24, 2008
Stock Markets Remain at Extreme Risk of Crash Despite Rallies / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Captain_Hook
In his genius, E.F. Schumaker foresaw the eventual demise of present day central banking long ago, and offers a workable solution that can both co-exit and operate within transition from failing fiat currency based economies flaming out due to accelerating inflation . And make no mistake about it – the global economy is flaming out – with all strata of economies soon to begin the decentralization process. One need only look at the collapse in the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) for confirmation in this regard. The credit crisis, and lack of trust it sponsors between financial institutions both domestic and foreign alike, has crashed international trade markets the likes of which never witnessed in the history of mankind. As growing numbers begin to understand this condition is not temporary, but the future, process will take hold, and economies will increasingly regionalize. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 24, 2008
Financial Market Forecasts and Investments Strategy / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Mike_Stathis
Market Guidance: Past, Present and Future - Despite the strong closing bounce off the new intraday low of around 7400 reached on Friday, it's likely the Dow has further downside. These lows may not occur for another 12-18 months. Alternatively, they could occur at any time. The timing is impossible to predict in advance. The important thing to focus on as it stands today is the likelihood that the stock market will head lower down the road. So you should adjust your investment strategy to reflect this scenario. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 24, 2008
U.S. Financial System Bailout Mushrooms to $7.4 Trillion / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Richard_Shaw
This news leaves us simply speechless.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — Fed Pledges Exceed $7.4 Trillion to Ease Frozen Company Credit — The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Stocks Soar as Obama Assembles Recession War Council / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Mick_Phoenix
Welcome to the Weekly Report. This week we look at new appointments, timings and why Obama is willing to start work early.
An hour before the stock markets closed on Friday we started to get some "breaking news" scrolling across the screens of the financial TV channels, pointing to new appointments in the Obama administration-in-waiting.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Financial Markets Wild Ride Between Fear and Optimism / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
A new bout of fear gripped financial markets during the past week, causing the slide in global stocks, commodities and emerging-market assets to deepen. As investors' angst escalated, positions in risky assets were liquidated in exchange for perceived safe havens such as the US dollar, government bonds and gold bullion.
“We have seen fundamental selling, technical selling, forced selling (deleveraging), short selling, capitulation selling and selling due to ennui,” commented David Fuller ( Fullermoney ).
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Gold and Financial Markets- A Nova-view / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Brian_Bloom
The jump in the gold price on Friday November 21st 2008 may be the harbinger of a sea change in attitudes in the markets in general. To understand the implications of this it is probably appropriate to take a step back and take a fresh look at the Big Picture.
The chart of the ratio of the gold price to the commodities index enables us to monitor whether the markets are viewing gold as just another commodity or, perhaps, something other than a commodity. Below is a 3% X 3 box reversal Point and Figure chart of this ratio (courtesy stockcharts.com).
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Stock Market Technicals Point to Strong Rally / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Burk
The good news is: In the 1930's, the last time we saw declines of this magnitude in the same time frame, the rallies that followed took the S&P 500 (SPX) up 20% - 46%.
Short Term As of Thursday's close the SPX was down over 40% in less than 3 months, a rare occurrence. From its August 87 high to its October crash low the SPX was down 33.2%. Late 1937 was the last time the SPX fell more than 40% in 3 months, 71 years ago.
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Stock Market Investing From Sell the Rallies to Buy the Pullbacks? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Friday's low in the S&P 500 at 741.02 tested the monthly trendline going
back to October 1987, after breaking the October 2002 low at 768.60. The
RSI reading of a "healthy" oversold reading currently at 15.1 had not been
this far beneath the 25% oversold demarcation line since the October 1974
reading of 13.3. At 2:30 pm Eastern, with the SPX at 754.17, I noted to
our subscribers that the 13-month vicious bear market has created conditions
similar to the most acutely bullish readings in the past 35 years --
creating a potentially explosive technical setup for a recovery rally phase
in the SPX.
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
The Next Financial Markets and Real Earthquake / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The next shoe to drop…synthetic CDOs. In an article by Alan Kohler of the Business Spectator we find the following observation, “As the world slips into recession, it is also on the brink of a synthetic CDO cataclysm that could actually save the global banking system. It is a truly great irony that the world's banks could end up being saved not by governments, but by the synthetic CDO time bomb that they set ticking with their own questionable practices during the credit boom. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Dow Jones Latest Crash and Recession Proofing Your Stocks Portfolio / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Andy_Sutton
With the most recent two day crash in the Dow Industrials average, we are once again poised at the precipice of oblivion. Two important dominos have been toppled in the past two days. On Wednesday, the Dow closed below the psychological mark of 8000. Granted, the 7997.28 level was not the most pronounced of breaches, but it is worth noting. However, yesterday, we solidified the drop below 8000 and blew right through the October 10 th low of 7773.71 going all the way down to 7552.29. In totality, the listed market has now lost approximately half of its value – in 12 months. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Stock Market Sharp Rebound to End Very Negative Week / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets astounded investors with a late very sharp rally that exploded into the close with a huge gain today. After backing and filling and making new multi-year lows on the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500, they retested in the afternoon, and when they failed to take out the lows substantially and follow through to the downside, they turned them around with abandon and rallied 600 points in the last hour to close up 494 on the Dow. The S&P 500 rallied from 741 to 801, closing at 800, up 47 1/2. The Nasdaq 100 rallied from 1019 to 1085 and closed right at the high for the day going away, up 49 points. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOXX) jumped from 167 to 180, closing right there, up 8.90.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Upside Reversal Nearing for Nasdaq Q's / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
With two hours remaining in today's session, I can make a case that this morning's low at 25.21 in the Q's ended the decline from the Election Day high at 33.96. To trigger initial confirmations that such a low is in place, the Q's will have to climb and sustain above 26.65. However, with option expiration approaching during today's final hour, yet another spike to the downside would not surprise me -- that presses the Q's to my optimal target zone of 25.00-24.70 prior to my expectation of a wicked upside reversal.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Why the Stock Market Keeps Falling Despite Value Bargains / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Marty_Chenard
Some investors are noting that there are some significant "value bargains" appearing on the radar screen, and yet, the market is ignoring this and still moving down .
What's going on?
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Why China Stocks are a Screaming Buy / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: It's easy to be gloomy when it comes to the financial markets. It's even easier to write off China.
After all, the Red Dragon's markets have collapsed by 70%, businesses are shutting down, lead-laced toys and poisoned medicines have tainted the minds of Western consumers, there's a growing gap between the rich and the poor, inflationary clouds seem to be gathering, and verbuilding is a growing concern.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
How Low will the Dow Jones Stocks Bear Market Go? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: INO
Make no mistake about it, the market action on Wednesday (November 19th) was extremely negative for all of the indices that we track. The close below 8,000 on the DOW can only be described as negative, indicating further weakness to the downside. I am looking for this index to trade down to around the 6600-6700 level. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Economic Consequences of De-leveraging for Investors / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Hans_Wagner
The explosion of credit taken on by consumers and some businesses is the major cause of the current economic problems faced by the U.S. Over the last 20 years consumer debt has risen to $2.6 trillion. In the past when the economy faltered, the consumer has been able to generate a robust recovery. Is this time different? Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Nasdaq Q's Downleg Near Completion / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My pattern and momentum work in the Q's (Nasdaq: QQQQ) argue that the downleg from the June 2008 recovery rally peak at 50.61 is at or is very near completion ahead of a potent recovery rally period that should propel the Q's into the 33.00-34.00 target zone. Can we loop down and retest this morning's low at 26.00 -- and possibly make new lows? Definitely, but relatively marginal new lows should be short-lived prior to a vicious snapback rally period. (12:45pm EST, 27.21).Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Worst Stocks Bear Market Since the Great Depression / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: HRA_Advisory
If you think you have just been through a month like no other in the market, you're right. One thing separating this market from any in our memories is the level of absolute panic and despair. You can usually count on some of the popular financial media to be bullish in the face of contrary evidence. Not this time. We've been amazed by the total negativity from every corner.