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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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 ).

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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.

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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?

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Fear & Perception - The Speed at Which Investor Sentiment Can Change / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets

By: Doug_Wakefield

“There is truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that Truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer . You know that inherently, because you feel awful when you are experiencing the lack of good things. All good things are your birthright!” – The Secret (2007), 41 weeks in top the five NY Times Hardcore Advice List

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Nasdaq Falls to Support Trendline, Will It Hold? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Isn't it amazing that the Q's (NASDAQ: QQQQ) can decline right to a near-term support line, currently 54.25 or so, and hold right there? And this is happening while the other indices are breaking down! In any case, let's keep an eye on the Q's during the final two hours of trading to see if they can avert breaking important near-term support at 54.25 and possibly 54.05/00, which will (finally) inflict some damage to the near-term technical picture. If so, then the next target is 53.85.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Stock Market Reaction to US Fed Interest Rate Cut of 25 Basis Points / Stock-Markets / US Interest Rates

By: Mike_Paulenoff

For whatever it is worth, the "gurus" on CNBC seem to think that the Fed signaled a pause in its accommodation policy (all of two cuts and 75 bps) because of the statement that "the rate cut taken to forestall harm to the broader economy."

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Investing in the Technology Sector Stocks / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks

By: Hans_Wagner

To beat the market investors need to be in the right sector and sub-sector. Money in markets tends to flow from one sector to another based on investors perceptions of what is fundamentally driving the underlying business. The basic theory behind sector rotation was described by Stan Stovell in Standard & Poor's Guide to Sector Investing 1995 (this is an expensive book). However, as I have discussed in previous articles on sector rotation, the movement of money is a bit more complex and not quite as straight forward. In this article I present a couple of the underlying themes that are driving the technology sector to help identify investing opportunities.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Hunt for Stock Market Juncture Inflection Points / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Brady_Willett

The GM and Ford debt downgrades in 2006, the Amaranth blowup, the mini-market crash in China in March 2007, and the subprime debacle/credit crunch that started in July. The common theme following these and other events was that the U.S. equity markets quickly rebounded following a brief period of heightened investor fear.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Canada's Investing Secrets I Learned in Calgary / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market

By: Money_and_Markets

Tony Sagami writes: Woody Allen was absolutely right when he said "80% of success is just showing up." And nowhere is that more true than the world of investing.

I regularly find myself dodging forklifts on busy shipping ports … walking past snarling street dogs in Chinese alleys … or, in my latest trip's case, freezing my buns off in northern Canada.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

NOLTE NOTES - Stock Market Rally on Low Volume - What, Me Worry? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Paul_J_Nolte

Oil prices rise, the markets rise, as demand for oil remains high, indicating that the global economy is still chugging along. Oil prices decline and the markets rally, as lower oil prices will add to consumer's ability to spend. Let's face it; the markets are not really paying attention to oil prices, other than a convenient reason for a market rally. However, that rally is coming on lower volume and less participation than at any time since the August bottom.

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