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Monday, October 27, 2008

How the Fed Creates Bull and Bear Markets / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Clif_Droke

I received an e-mail recently that is typical of the pop economic philosophy being heavily touted today in various financial forums. The e-mail contained a petition for the elimination of the Federal Reserves system. The gist of the e-mail was that the credit crisis was caused by the Fed's “loose money policy.”

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Panicking Investors Rush to U.S. Dollar and Yen Bonds / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets

By: Prieur_du_Plessis

The past week witnessed mounting evidence that the world economy was facing a sharp downturn, causing unrest to engulf financial markets. Stocks and emerging-market currencies and bonds remained under heavy selling pressure as risk-averse investors rushed to liquidate positions, with the US dollar , Japanese yen and developed-market bonds providing perceived safe havens.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

NYSE Stock Market Crash Circuit Breakers No Help to Portfolios / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

The New York Stock Exchange will implement new circuit-breaker collar trigger levels for fourth-quarter 2008 effective Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Circuit-breakers represent the threshold levels at which trading is halted market wide for single-day declines in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Circuit-breaker levels are set quarterly as 10, 20 and 30-percent of the DJIA average closing values of the previous month, rounded to the nearest 50 points.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Stock Market Long-Term Projections Not Pretty / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The enclosed weekly chart of the DJIA has the look of unfinished business on the downside prior to completing the decline off of the October 2007 high. My annotated directional lines show what the chart would look like based on my current scenario of the Dow heading towards the October 2002 low below 7200.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Stock Market Impressive Rallies Fail to Change Bearish Trend / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Mike_Burk

The good news is: With commodity prices falling, our enemies are going broke.

Short Term - Many of the short term indicators are off the charts, trying to read anything into them is too risky. Last week Alan Greenspan admitted to making mistakes.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Stock Market Indices Sharply Off Lows, but the Bleeding Continues / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Harry_Boxer

It was another negative session on Wall Street, a nasty way to end the week, but at least they came sharply off the early lows. Pre-market futures were limit down, as worldwide markets were down 8-10%, and the indices opened sharply lower, but immediately reversed and had a 3-wave rally that brought the NDX from 1148 to about 1225 in the first couple hours.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Government Intervention Changes the Rules of Stock Market Investing / Stock-Markets / Government Intervention

By: Hans_Wagner

The government is stepping in to rescue Wall Street and Main Street. This money comes with many strings attached that stem from good intentions. We will get further "help" from the government when a new administration takes over, even if we do not want it. Therefore, investors need to prepare themselves for all this help and the unintended consequences.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Stock Market Invest for the Long-Term- the Very Long Term / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Paul_L_Kasriel

Note: Horizontal line is where the Nikkei 225 closed on October 22, 2008.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

The Top 10 Stocks that Institutional Investors are Selling / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Marty_Chenard

What have the Institutional Investors been doing on the "core holdings"?

Which stocks are they Selling off and rotating out of?

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Anatomy of Financial Disaster -The Next Stop / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Andy_Sutton

These past few weeks we have laid the groundwork for the upcoming economic and financial mess. Lacking a textbook definition of a depression and outright refusal by the media and government to even admit we're in a recession, I will use the unscientific and arbitrary term ‘mess' to describe both the current and upcoming realities. After all, ‘mess' is a scalable term.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Securities Investors' Bill Of Rights (SIBORAP): Part One of Four / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation

By: Steve_Selengut

We the securities investors of the United States, in order to form more transparent financial markets, establish effective regulations, defend against destructive speculation and manipulation, promote financial well-being, preserve working capital, and protect retirement income, do establish this Securities Investors Bill of Rights and Protections (SIBORAP).

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Brazil Post Stock Market Crash Profit Plays / Stock-Markets / Brazil

By: Money_Morning

Martin Hutchinson writes: most other markets, Brazil has been battered by the credit crisis – the BOVESPA index is currently down 28% in October alone and no less than 52% from its peak as recently as May. It now appears to represent excellent value, with a historic Price/Earnings (P/E) ratio of only7.0.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Stock Market Deleveraging Pain Continues / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: David_Vaughn

Looks like the markets are giving us a little more pain as the weeks pass. A good time now to look at personal portfolios and see how much they have crashed. So much for retiring any time soon. I keep hearing how the savings rate is too low or non existent. What about the 401K? Weren't these supposed to be savings for our retirement? But what makes these things damnation is that they are totally controlled by the government as well as general market conditions. A real savings plan allows freedom of access instead of waiting till you're 60 years old. For gee whiz! A lot of us are going to be dead by age 60.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Stock Market Indices Late Snap Back Rally / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Harry_Boxer

The markets had a very interesting and volatile session. The day started out with a move down that tested yesterday's late lows and held, then surged back in a 3-wave rally to the highs for the day, but failed at yesterday afternoon's resistance and then sold off steadily and sharply. The Nasdaq 100 dropped from 1264 to 1177, about an 87-point drop over the next several hours, and the S&P 500 fell from nearly 923 to 859, or 64 points in the same period of time, reaching their session lows, with the NDX making new 2008 and multi-year lows at 1177.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Deflationary Economic Depression? Where to go from here? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: John_Lee

In September two significant events happened that will mark the month as the most financially significant in US history by far

1. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were nationalized; this was no surprise as I predicted in November 2007: http://www.goldmau.com..

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

S&P500 Stock Market Crash Compared to Nikkei Index / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Mike_Shedlock

This article features a long term comparison between the S&P 500 Index and the Japanese stock market as measured by the Nikkei Index. The Nikkei peaked almost two decades ago.

Here is the first chart to consider.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Is Islamic Finance Panacea for Global Credit Crisis? / Stock-Markets / Islamic Finance

By: Money_Morning

Abdul Ghafour writes: : The Islamic finance system, which introduces greater discipline into the economy and links credit expansion to the growth of the real economy, is capable of minimizing the severity and frequency of financial crises, says Umer Chapra, a well-known Saudi economist and winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Stock Market Nasty Trading Session / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Harry_Boxer

A very nasty session, starting off with a sharp move down and then morning consolidation patterns that appeared very much to be bear-flag consolidations, and sure enough by mid-day when they started breaking the patterns the indices went quickly lower. They retested the lows, tried to bounce around that level, but was rather anemic, and in the afternoon they rolled over sharply. With about 15 minutes to go they were sharply lower at the lows for the day, down nearly 700 on the Dow, 78 on the SPX ,but a very sharp late snapback in the last 15-20 minutes, perhaps fueled by short covering, brought the Nasdaq 100 back about 35 points and the S&P 500 about 25 points, before they settled back a bit.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Sell into the Stocks Bear Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: David_Petch

Analysis of the S&P 500 Index is presented today, with a slight tweaking of the Elliott Wave count. I have spent a big chunk of time reviewing the $CPC chart posted yesterday, along with the wave structure and am confident the described pattern is what will play out. There is a tradable bottom 1-2 weeks out, but a low should be established by mid to late week. Expect basing for 1-2 weeks before commencing a multi-month rally that should last until March or April 2009 (if the partial retracement is extremely rapid, then late December becomes the target).

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Debt Slavery is the Real Reason Behind the Bail-Out / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts

By: John_Olagues

I was just listening to Ron Paul on the latest Bail-Out of banks. He disapproved of the Bail-Out because he claims that it will destroy the financial system as we know it by destroying the dollar's value and creating hyper-inflation.

Ron Paul said "you can not just create trillions of dollars out of thin air without creating inflation". Paul's conclusions are based upon the idea of demand pull inflation. This means a situation where excess amounts of money are chasing a static or near static amount of goods and services.

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