Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Dow Jones Index Break of 13,000 Would Signal Bear Market and Recession / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
By: Brian_Bloom
Assuming reversion to the mean, and assuming historical earnings and dividends are maintained, the $SPX could pull back to 912 (40%) and the Dow Jones Industrials could pull back to 10018 (25%). Strictly speaking, this assumes three things:
- The mood on Wall Street turns Primarily Bearish – thereby pointing to a reassessment based on fundamentals
- Earnings remain constant
- There is a reversion to the historical mean
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Wall Street Conventional Wisdom and Stock Market Corrections / Stock-Markets / Investing
By: Steve_Selengut
During every correction, I encourage investors to avoid the destructive inertia that results from trying to determine: how low can we go; how long will this last? Investors who add to their portfolios during downturns invariably experience higher Market Values during the next advance. For just as surely as there is a Santa Claus for every five year old, there is another "value stock" rally for every fingernail biting fifty-five year old. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Potential Top Formation in S&P 500 / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Notice the potentially massive top pattern that has formed on the S&P 500 Depository Receipts (AMEX: SPY), which is in stark contrast to the still viable uptrend pattern evidenced by the Nasdaq 100 Trust Shares (NASDAQ: QQQQ).Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
How to Beat the Market by Playing the Federal Reserver US Interest Rate Cuts / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Hans_Wagner
On October 31, 2007 the Federal Reserve lowered the Fed Funds and Discount rates by 0.25%. This is the second Fed Funds Rate reduction and the third for the Discount rate. In their announcement the Fed hinted that investors should not expect another rate move at their next meeting on December 11, 2007. In the hours after the announcement the market jumped up. The next day it fell on bad news from Citigroup regarding sub-prime mortgage loan write offs. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
How to Play Canada's Economic and Resources Boom / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes: My trip to Canada was fantastic! Sure, I took a wrong turn and temporarily found myself in British Columbia, but I came back from Alberta with a whole new view of Canada.
I knew Canada was very similar to the U.S. in some respects such as its market-oriented economic system and its living standards. But what became increasingly clear from my travels is that the country has transformed from a rural economy into one that is primarily industrial and urban.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
NOLTE NOTES - Investment Models Continue to Point to Emerging Markets and Commodities / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Paul_J_Nolte
Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it. Such is the dilemma of the markets this weekend. The Fed did as expected by cutting rates by a quarter percent, the markets rallied off the news and then thought better of the idea and declined by the third largest amount this year the very next day and only a late session rally on Friday avoided a complete weekly rout. A few nagging issues continue to dog the markets, from the subprime issue (costing the Merrill chief his job and likely the Citigroup CEO) to persistently higher oil prices – soon to touch $100/bbl.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
How to Survive The Declining US Dollar: Free Report from Weiss Capital Management ... / Stock-Markets / US Dollar
By: Money_and_Markets
With the U.S. Dollar Index now trading well below its previous low of all time … with its value now risking a virtual free-fall … and with the Fed's latest rate cut adding even more impetus to its decline … virtually every market in the world is being impacted: Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Stock Market Subprime Mayhem and Bush's Moral Swamp / Stock-Markets / Subprime Mortgage Risks
By: Mike_Whitney
Last Wednesday, the Federal Reserve dropped its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.5% citing ongoing weakness in the housing sector. As expected, the stock market rallied and the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 137 points. Unfortunately, Bernanke's “low interest” stardust wasn't enough to buoy the markets through the rest of the week. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 05, 2007
Hyper-inflation Means Gold Is A Win – Win Proposition / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Captain_Hook
Needles to say, Friday was not a good day for stock market bulls. Media types are attributing the fall in stocks to the market finally waking up to the fact the credit crunch is worse than previously thought , and in a sense they are correct. In being more specific about the context of why stocks are actually falling however, from a technical / market internals perspective, with the supportive influence of stock indices puts to support prices having expired Friday, prices fell to better reflect dire circumstances in the economy is a better explanation of what is actually happening. But you will not hear media talking about the options related scam Wall Street is perpetuating on the investing public. This would be bad for business. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 05, 2007
The Week Ahead in the Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: David_Urban
The US markets remind me specifically of the point in time where Internet stocks were beginning their runs yet not included within the major indices. There was a divergence between the returns made within the S&P 500 and DJIA and those made by groups outside the index. When they were added we entered the final blowoff phase. Expect the same with mining stocks.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Major Stock Market Uptrends to Resume - China Shanghai Index Primed For a Crash / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Nadeem_Walayat
My last analysis of the US Stock market of 7th October 2007 suggested a corrective downtrend of the uptrend from the August lows was about to begin and to last to around the 22nd of October, which was to be followed by a resumption of the uptrend towards new highs this year. However last weeks price action has changed the price pattern to imply a possible ABC correction into a lower low during November, which this analysis now evaluates the probability of. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Stock Market Cycle Turning Points Analysis - Large Caps Oversold Expectations of Uptrend to Resume / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market.
SPX: Long-Term Trend - The 12-yr cycle is approaching its mid-point and some of its dominant components are topping and should soon restrain the bullish effect of the 4.5-yr. This could lead to another period of consolidation in 2008 with an eventual bull market top in 2009-2010.
SPX: Intermediate Trend - The intermediate-term trend has been up since the 4.5yr cycle low in August and
is currently correcting.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Business Times Singapore Investment Roundtable: Asian Stock Markets Outlook / Stock-Markets / Asian Economies
By: William_R_Thomson
OVERVIEW As one bubble deflates, so another forms - or so it would appear as Asian stock markets surge to lifetime highs even while the US mortgage-driven asset bubble collapses. Does this mean that Asian markets (including Australia 's commodity-fuelled bourse) are dangerous places to invest just now? At first sight it seems so, but experts gathered together by The Business Times for an Investment
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Sunday, November 04, 2007
Stock Market Weekly Update: How to Keep Your Profits / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Dominick
This was another one of those weeks where a lot of traders who were holding profits one day, saw them vanish the next, sometimes literally overnight. If this was you, I can pretty safely say what you weren't doing – getting out of your positions while the getting was still good. At TTC we have one simple strategy for keeping our profits … it's called “take the money and run” (TMAR).Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Weekly Stock Market Technical Analysis Report - 3rd Nov 07 / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Burk
The good news is: · The NYSE composite hit an all time high, NASDAQ 100 (NDX) and the NASDAQ composite (OTC) hit a multi year highs last week.
Short Term
The Hindenburg Omen, a signal developed by Jim Miekka, has received a lot of publicity lately. The signal has had some false positives, but it has also preceded every major decline. The parameters are: NYSE new highs and new lows must both exceed 2.8% of NYSE issues traded (currently 93).
Saturday, November 03, 2007
US Banking Sector Suffers Worst Decline Five Years As Banks to Declare More Bad Debt Write-downs / Stock-Markets / Credit Crunch
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Yesterday the U.S. banking index suffered its worst 1-day decline in five years, according to the London Financial Times . The biggest single reason for the decline in equities was the revival of worries that big banks in the US and Europe would unveil further credit write-offs. Another focus of concern involved a less well-known pillar of the global financial system – smaller specialist insurers that provide credit guarantees to lenders and investors. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Investors Dumping Financial Stocks - A Gallery of Crowd Behavior / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Doug_Wakefield
Investors BELIEVE that bank stocks are not the place to be.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 02, 2007
Bond Market Meltdown, Real Inflation and GDP - Fingers of Instability, Part 11 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: Ty_Andros
In This Issue – 4 Fingers of Instability
- Meltdowns
- The Taxman Cometh, Middle Class Attacks
- Stocks
- Inflation and GDP
Introduction
The markets are rocking: precious metals, commodities, raw materials, energy, interest rates, foreign currencies, the dollar and more are providing opportunities, up and down to the prepared investor. The tsunami of money and credit creation required to underpin the asset-backed economies of the G7 has provided opportunities as far as the eye can see. And the massive sterilization of this same money printing by the emerging world is stoking runaway inflation to surface in every area of the globe and signaling the unfolding “Crack up Boom” (see Tedbits archives at www.TraderView.com ).
Friday, November 02, 2007
What happened on Thursday to the Financial Markets? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets
By: David_Urban
You can say it was a case of Fed hangover. In what has become an odd yet peculiar pattern in the financial markets, the US stock market rushed ahead following the Federal Reserve announcement and then sells off the following day. Thursday's selloff was particularly strong as everyone had a night to reassess the statement and economic data released as well.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 02, 2007
Sharp Drop in Stock Markets - A Mere Correction or Reversal? / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
From its closing high peak on October 9, 2007 , the Dow Jones Industrials spent 8 days in decline and 8 days in a corrective rally. Assuming the up-trend from August to October may be over for now, where may the market go from here?Read full article... Read full article...