Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Thursday, January 02, 2014
8 Economic and Market Forecasts for 2014 Gold, Bitcoin, 3D Printing... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Jason_Hamlin
Economic predictions are a crap shoot at anytime, but especially during times when central bank intervention is running at all-time highs. The markets are more managed and manipulated now than at any point in history. The Federal Reserve is literally propping up the entire system via nearly $1 Trillion in bond purchases per year, artificially low interest rates, an active plunge-protection team, gold market intervention, economic data manipulation and clandestine operations we have yet to understand.
Thursday, January 02, 2014
Stock Market Historic Optimism - What Does it Mean? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: EWI
How do you know when the market is getting ready
for a change? This quote from Bob Prechter's best-selling book, Conquer
the Crash, looks at investor psychology at extremes in the markets:
The engine of high stock market valuation is widely shared optimism. The greater the degree of the advance that is ending, the greater the optimism at its peak. Optimism also tends to remain strong in the early stages of a bear market ...
Today, how optimistic are market participants? Bob dedicated an entire issue of his Elliott Wave Theorist market letter to looking at the level of optimism in the markets today. These two charts, excerpted from that letter, show just a piece of the story. Learn how you can get the entire issue, with 15 eye-opening charts, for free.
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Thursday, January 02, 2014
Secular Stocks Bull and Bear Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: PhilStockWorld
Was the March 2009 low the end of a secular bear market and the beginning of a secular bull? Without crystal ball, we simply don’t know.
One thing we can do is examine the past to broaden our understanding of the range of possibilities. An obvious feature of this inflation-adjusted is the pattern of long-term alternations between up-and down-trends. Market historians call these “secular” bull and bear markets from the Latin word saeculum “long period of time” (in contrast to aeternus “eternal” — the type of bull market we fantasize about).
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Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Forex, Oil and Gold Market Forecasts for 2014 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Submissions
David Parker writes:
EUR/USD
The EURUSD started 2013 just above its major resistance at 1.3000 and managed to climb up to 1.3790 by the end of January 2013, as the Fed decided to increase its monthly asset purchases from $40 billion to $85 billion. At the end of the first quarter, the banking crisis expanded across the European countries and the single currency tumbled down to 1.2740, which was the yearly low for the pair. For a few months, the pair swung between gains and losses and at the beginning of July hit a double bottom at 1.2740, as Ben Bernanke announced a trim to the asset purchases during September.
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Stock Market Ends 2013 at a New All-Time High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short: The S&P 500 closed out the year with a 29.60% gain and ended at a new all-time high. Only four times since its inception in 1957 has index had higher annual gains: 38.06% in 1958, 31.55% in 1975, 34.11% in 1995, and 31.01% in 1997.
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Cyprus Stock Market - The Next Crisis Investing Opportunity / Stock-Markets / European Stock Markets
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno, Senior Editor, International Man
Recently, legendary crisis investor Doug Casey and I put our boots to the ground in Cyprus to search the rubble of one of recent history's most significant financial crises—the financial collapse and bank deposit raid in Cyprus—for incredible bargains. And we found them.
The fact of the matter is that there are sound, productive, and well-run businesses that are listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange that continue to produce earnings and pay dividends.
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Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Looking Back at the Year of the Stocks Bull Market 2013 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
By: Frank_Holmes
I've often said that trying to stop a bull market has risks. It was certainly precarious to think this year's run would end anytime soon.
By December 27, the S&P 500 Index climbed an astounding 31.86 percent in 2013. We're also pleased that shareholders in U.S. Global Investors' All American Equity Fund (GBTFX) and Holmes Macro Trends Fund (ACBGX) were along for the ride and more this year, as both funds outperformed their respective benchmarks. Check out their performance here.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Stock Market Holiday Bulge – Prepare for Selling! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Chris_Vermeulen
I would like to start by wishing you a Happy Holidays & New Year!
So far this year (2013) has been a great year for trading and my 2014 forecast looks to be as good if not even better. I do have something exciting to share with you that is going to make 2014 really amazing, but first let me talk about the stock market and what is likely to unfold in the next week or two so you can protect your investments.
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Stock Market 2014 Contrarian Trade of the Decade / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Michael_Pento
Mr. Bernanke, in a move made mostly to bolster his legacy, stated in his final press conference as Chairman of the Fed that he would start to reduce asset purchases in January of 2014. Nearly every advisor on Wall Street took the news as evidence the Fed can now remove its manipulation of interest rates with complete economic immunity. However, what these pundits fail to realize is that the Fed’s economic recovery strategy was based on artificially boosting bond, equity and real estate prices. Now our central bank is promising to remove its support of asset price. Therefore, the lesson we are all about to learn is that bubble-based economies always fail.
Monday, December 30, 2013
Stock Market Time to be Watchful for Sudden Break Lower / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX appears to be breaking its trading channel trendline for its most recent rally. However, it may remain stalled above its Orthodox Broadening Top trendline at 1838.00. Until that trendline is broken, there is still a chance that SPX may attempt yet another probe higher. There may not be a potential sell signal, even an aggressive one, until that trendline is broken.
Monday, December 30, 2013
Santa Delays Stock Market Correction / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
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 severe correction of 2007-2009 may have curtailed the full downward pressure potential of the 40-yr and 120-yr cycles.
Intermediate trend - An important top formation is in the making.
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Stock Market End of Year Musings / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
By: PhilStockWorld
Things are indeed getting surreal.
Appropriately, surrealism began in the 1920s, at the time of another great stock market bubble and was marked by representations of illogical scenes, often pasted together using everyday objects in unusual settings.
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Monday, December 30, 2013
How to Make Money in a Generational Stocks Bull Market 2014 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: This isn't just any old stock market rally. It's the first leg of a global generational bull market.
Stocks around the world can and eventually will double and triple from here.
Investors want to know if it's too late to get into the record-breaking bull market.
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Why Janet Yellen Won’t See The Next Big Financial Crisis Coming - Video / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2014
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of ZeroHedge. Submitted by Tyler Durden.
"Conventional economic theory says 'crisis don't happen' unless they are hit by an [outside] shock" exclaims Steve Keen, adding that numerous Nobel Prize winning economists have suggested that "capitalism is stable…" and "the problem of avoiding depressions has been solved for many decades."
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Saturday, December 28, 2013
Relentless Stocks Bull Market Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
By: Tony_Caldaro
After ending last week near an all time high at SPX 1818, the market gapped up twice this week reaching 1845 on Friday before settling at 1841. For the week the SPX/DOW were +1.45%, the NDX/NAZ were +1.25%, and the DJ World index gained 1.50%. Economic reports for the week were again positive. On the uptick: personal income/spending, PCE prices, durable goods orders, FHFA housing prices, new home sales, and weekly jobless claims improved. On the downtick: the WLEI and the monetary base. Next week, another holiday shortened week, will be highlighted by construction spending, ISM and auto sales.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Stock Market Holiday Rally Takes a Pause / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short: The S&P 500 went nowhere Friday, snapping its four-day winning streak with a fractional loss of 0.03%. Today’s inaction came on weak volume, and the 0.276% intraday range (percent change from the low to the high) was the smallest of 2013.
According to the U.S. Treasury, the yield on the 10-year note closed at 3.02%, a new interim high and the highest yield since July 2011.
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Saturday, December 28, 2013
Stock Market Sentiment Off The Charts...Bears can't Get Any Love.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013
By: Jack_Steiman
You can feel the bears getting ready to celebrate. It's like their guts are busting, because in their hearts they know they have the bulls where they want them. Can't blame them for feeling that way. After all, everywhere we look the bears should be feeling good about themselves. The short-term charts are overbought. The weekly and monthly charts are overbought with potential negative divergences. Margin debt is at an all-time high. Yes folks, an all-time high. The bull-bear spread is at its worst level in nearly twenty-five years. 45.5% heading into this week. It's probably even higher now since we didn't sell much this week now did we. Maybe we're at 47%. Maybe, if not probably, the bulls are now at an unheard of 60%, or higher, while the bears are at an unheard of 14% or lower.
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Saturday, December 28, 2013
Stock Market Investor Expectations Also Need Tapering As We Enter 2014 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Sy_Harding
Psychologists say much of the reason investors have such a dismal record of buying high and selling low, of being excited and buying enthusiastically at market tops and then bailing out in disgust at market bottoms, can be explained by the ‘recency bias’ of the human brain.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
The Creature from Jekyll Island Fed Anniversary Exposé Benefits / Stock-Markets / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Secret negotiations established a banking cartel. It’s grown ever stronger through the years.” It operates “independently.”
“Rather than preventing financial crises, it precipitates new ones.”
“We know Fed policy continues to reap profits for Wall Street while impoverishing Main Street.”
“One hundred years is long enough. End the Fed.”
– Ron Paul
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Saturday, December 28, 2013
The Target Test and the Financial System 2014 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Despite the headlines and the perception that financial markets and the economy are returning to some semblance of normal and growth, this is far from the underlying reality. Beneath the headlines and the newest bubble trifecta in housing, bonds, and equity, the flip side paints a much grimmer picture where record debt, unemployment, as well as government intervention and transfer payments exist. In fact, the sheer enormity of intervention has created a tinder box of risk waiting for a spark. We may have just witnessed the original of one potential spark.