Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The Smart Money Is Preparing for a Stock Market Correction / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Investment_U
Marc Lichtenfeld writes: If you want a great stock to invest in, you should buy Crystal Ball Inc. (NYSE: BS) because it appears that in the past few weeks everyone on Wall Street is using one and they're all saying there is a big correction coming.
For the record, if you didn't get the joke, there is no stock called Crystal Ball Inc. I don't want any angry emails saying you couldn't find the stock.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
What My Stock-Market Warning Sign Is Saying Today / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: DailyWealth
Dr. David Eifrig writes: Readers of Retirement Millionaire have made a fortune in this bull market...
Over the past five years, our average gain is 50%.
We've made such great gains by ignoring "doom and gloom" pessimists who would have you believe we're about to enter another depression. Instead, we've focused on facts, owned U.S. stocks, and we've made huge gains.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Fractional-Reserve Banking: From Goldsmiths To Hedge Funds To…Chaos / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: John_Rubino
Banking didn’t start out as a reckless, parasitical plaything of a moneyed and politically-connected aristocracy. In the beginning, in fact, bankers weren’t even bankers. They were jewelers and goldsmiths who had to maintain their inventory with vaults, guards etc., and offered storage services to others with valuables to protect. So the original banks were, in effect, very safe warehouses.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Stock Market Rally Reversal Time! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX stopped its ramp at 1886.06, nominally higher than Monday’s high at 1886.00. It may go higher, but for practical purposes, the rally may already be done.
USD/JPY also rallied this morning from its new lows, but could not overcome its prior high. It appears to be out of gas and its influence fading.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
S&P 500 To Continue To The Downside / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Gregor_Horvat
The US stocks turned bearish yesterday, which has been expected, as rally on the E-mini {{166|S&P 500}} had a corrective shape. The decline from 1884 was sharp, that also took out the lower trend line of a corrective channel. It suggests that move from 1858 is complete and that market will continue to the downside, beneath 1858 as long as 1884 is in place. Short-term resistance for current minor a-b-c rally comes in around 1875.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
The $12 Trillion Derivatives Ticking Time Bomb / Stock-Markets / Derivatives
By: Graham_Summers
Time and again, we’ve been told that the Great Crisis of 2008 has ended and that we’re in a recovery.
Indeed, earlier this year, we were even told by Fed Chair Janet Yellen that the Fed may in fact raise interest rates as early as next year.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Gold, Stocks and Crude Oil Heading Lower / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Gregor_Horvat
GOLD is moving sideways in 1268-1331 range for more than a month between two contracting trend-lines that make a shape of a triangle. We are looking at a running triangle in wave (b) that can be near completion as rise from 1276 is already in three legs that represents wave e), final leg in the pattern. With that in mind, traders should be aware of a bearish reversal down in wave (c) towards 1220/40 especially once 1277 and pattern support will give way.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Stock Market New High and the Lindsay Forecast / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: Ed_Carlson
Last week's new high in the Dow puts the Lindsay forecast into flux. Long time readers know that the advance from the 2011 Sideways Movement was long ago recognized to be the fly in the ointment for forecasting the end of the bull market.
Quick Review: Sideways Movements (when the basic advance is unable to reach the time span of the 15year interval) are almost always topping formations. Lindsay identified only two instances (over the course of 200 years) which saw advances from this pattern, rather than declines, and this was seen again in 2011. The challenge is in knowing from where to count the next basic advance. After much vacillating, it was decided to count the current basic advance from the low on 12/19/11 due to the description Lindsay gave of the 1926 pattern.
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Stock Market Further Uncertainty As Indexes Gained On Friday, Will Uptrend Resume? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion speculative long positions are still favored (with stop-loss at 1,850, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is still bullish, and our short-term outlook remains neutral:
Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: bullish
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: neutral
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish
Monday, May 19, 2014
Stock Market Too Late to be Bullish and Too Early to be Bearish / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over), there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, the Fed policy of keeping interest rates low has severely curtailed the full downward pressure potential of the 40-yr and 120-yr cycles.
Intermediate trend - Probably tracing out an ending diagonal pattern.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer market trends.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
First Quarter Doldrums Amp Up Stock Market Fear Factor / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Based on preliminary first-quarter data, U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth is 0.1%.
That’s not much.
But then again, what do you expect for $3.4 trillion of Federal Reserve spending to boost the economy.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
Strategic Investment Conference: Day 3 - Stock Market Due for a Correction? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: John_Mauldin
By Worth Wray
Good morning from 30,000 feet, somewhere over the great American West!
I admit to being a little overwhelmed as I write to you on my way home from the Strategic Investment Conference. After three days with two dozen of the finest investors, economists, and political scientists anywhere in the English-speaking world, it is going to take me weeks to think through the real-world implications of all I have learned.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
Strategic Investment Conference: Day 2 - Debt and Innovation / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: John_Mauldin
By Worth Wray
Hello again from the Strategic Investment Conference in San Diego, California!
John Mauldin took the stage on day 2 with a powerful message: while the human brain struggles to anticipate exponential change, our economic future quite literally depends on a race between two accelerating curves – debt and innovation.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
Strategic Investment Conference: Day 1 Special Update / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: John_Mauldin
By Worth Wray
Good morning from sunny San Diego, California!
As the sun rises on the second day of the Strategic Investment Conference, I am absolutely blown away. John and Altegris put on an amazing show, and this is simply unlike any investment conference I have ever attended.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
U.S. Bond Market Warning to Stock Market Traders / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Investment_U
Christopher Rowe writes: The 10-year Treasury note just fell to a seven-month low and is a hair away from an 11-month low. This week’s chart compares the S&P 500 to the Treasury rate for a 10-year period.
The chart shows the 10-Year Treasury Index (^TNX). Move the decimal one space to the left to get the current interest rate. EXAMPLE: TNX is at 29.50 when the “10-Year” pays 2.95% interest.
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Sayanora ¥, Konichiwa Nikkei San / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Jonathan_Davis
In 1989 The Nikkei index touched just short of 40,000.
Today it’s around 14,000.
There is an almost 100% inverse correlation in the relationship between the ¥ and the Japanese stock market. Thus, as the ¥ rises then the Nikkei will fall. And vice versa.
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Nasdaq Tech Stock Index Next Surge Higher? Elliott Wave Analysis / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Tony_Caldaro
Another week in which a new all time high was sold off. For the week the SPX/DOW were -0.3%, the NDX/NAZ were +0.7%, and the DJ World index was +0.2%. Economic reports came in about 2 to 1 to the positive. On the uptick: retail sales, business inventories, the PPI/CPI, the NY FED, housing starts, building permits, the WLEI, the monetary base, plus, weekly jobless claims improved and the treasury ran a surplus. On the downtick: export/import prices, industrial production, the Philly FED, the NAHB index, and consumer sentiment. Next week few economic reports, but we do have the FOMC minutes plus existing/new home sales. Best to your week!
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Biotech Stocks with Upside From a Down Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: TLSReport
A downtrending market is troublesome for investors, but does present interesting opportunities through creation of lower valuations. Finding the right names in the wobbly life sciences environment requires a sharp eye and depth of experience. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, J.P. Morgan Senior Biotechnology Analyst and Managing Director Geoff Meacham, a veteran analyst and cell biologist, brings eight important names to investors' attention and explains why they are still growth stories.
The Life Sciences Report: Geoff, you're a cell biologist by training. What have you brought from that early experience to your career as a sellside analyst?
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Wall Street Says It’s Different This Time / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Sy_Harding
It’s a good thing it’s different this time! We know it is because Wall Street says so.
The high-valuation levels indicated by the Shiller CAPE 10 Price/Earnings Ratio mean nothing this time, because things are different than when that indicator’s similar readings in previous periods were accompanied by market tops.
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Has the Stocks Bear Market Returned? Maybe / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Toby_Connor
Following up on my last article it does look like stocks have begun to move down into the yearly cycle low that I was expecting.
The failed breakout was a big warning sign. After a month and a half consolidation there was no reason for the breakout to fail. By the second test of the 1900 level stocks should have built up enough energy to break through and hold at that point.
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