Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Summers Out... Stock Market Likes But Fades Late.... Nasdaq Lags Badly / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Jack_Steiman

The market sent a strong message today about what it thought of the prospects of Larry Summers taking over as the head of the federal reserve. Mr. Bernanke and his liquidity machine are on the way out this January. The market wanted to get more insight into who may take over. It wanted someone more in tune with the ways of Mr. Bernanke. In other words, free cash. Mr. Summers is known to be the opposite. He doesn't believe in nonstop stimulus where Ms. Yellen does believe in it. The market was hopeful to have someone step in who would basically keep the machine running if necessary, and thus, celebrated the news that came out over the weekend when Mr. Summers said he was no longer interested in being the head of the Fed world.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

How to Make More Money Investing Than a Venture Capitalist / Stock-Markets / Investing 2013

By: Alex_Daley

Alex Daley writes: One set of investors has managed to catapult themselves to near-demigod status in recent years, with revelers hanging on their every word. They even have their own TV shows. Yet, with one simple investment, you could make double what they do. Here's how.

In some circles, they've become as iconic as Babe Ruth or Ted Williams. You overhear people talking about the time they met one in a surprise encounter in a swanky bar, as if they'd just brushed shoulders with a resident of Olympus. The mix of reverence, fear, and giddiness in the conversation is almost palpable.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Stock Market Turn is Upon Us / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX did turn just about mid-day and is challenging its uptrend line. There are a lot of issues the market must contend with. First, there’s the taper. Second, there the interest rate spike, which the Fed is not prepared and hasn’t planned for. Third, Janet Yellen could not see the last crisis, showing her to be unprepared for the next one, as well. She is still the first candidate for the Fed Chairmanship, but appears totally unable to think independently. Maybe that’s what Obama wants?

Monday, September 16, 2013

Credit Crisis Five Years Past or Five More in the Making / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2013

By: Nadia_Simmons

Wall Street is now reflecting upon the fifth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the start of the Credit Crisis. In fact, most are celebrating the belief that the complete collapse of the American economy was avoided thanks to a massive intervention of government-sponsored borrowing and money printing.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Cycle Turn Date May Stop the Stock Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Good Morning!

Today is day 11 from the September 5 Trading Cycle high in TNX. It is also a potential turn date into a potential Primary Cycle high on September 29 through October 3. Primary Cycles can be very strong and sharp. You may recall that I have said, “Primary Cycles may often be spoken of in superlatives.” This one promises to be one of them.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Summers Out, Syria Solved, Stock Markets Flying! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: PhilStockWorld

The Futures are flying!

Everything we were worried about is "fixed" and most of the Global markets are snapping higher this morning. That suits us just fine as we got much more aggressively bullish at our Strong Bounce lines on Tuesday (see "5 More Trade Ideas that Make 500% in an Up Market") and, even better, we nailed it again on oil, which is DOWN to $106.50 again this morning (/CL) for $2,000 PER CONTRACT gains!

Monday, September 16, 2013

Stock Market September Bounce Accelerates / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: PhilStockWorld

Courtesy of Doug Short writes: For the second consecutive week, all eight indexes on my world watch list finished with gains, the first time that’s happened this year. In fact, prior to the last two weeks there have only been three other Friday closes when all eight posted gains: the first Friday of 2013, Friday May 10th, and Friday July 12. The Shanghai Composite was the week’s big winner, with a 4.50% advance. The Nikkei finished second with a 3.92% gain. The S&P 500′s 1.98% was only good enough to be the top of the second tier. The FTSE posted the smallest gain, a perfectly respectable 0.56%.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Economic Heebie Jeebies And the Future of Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: Richard_Daughty

It was, alas, one of those “good news/bad news” kind of week, in that my natural hostility and paranoid towards the monetary insanity of the Federal Reserve did not boil over in some pointless, screaming outburst of outrage.

Hmmm. “Outburst of outrage.” Not bad writing! See? It was THAT kind of week!

On the bad news side, having drawers full of old electronic things lying about, I somehow hit on the doomed-but-desperate plan to assemble some kind of transmitter with which to contact my home planet, wherever that is, by randomly soldering odd pieces of miscellaneous circuit boards together.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Commemorating Financial Panic: It Ain’t Over Yet! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Danny_Schechter

New York, New York: Media outlets love anniversaries. They become the makers and news-pegs for one-day stories that become pretexts for episodic coverage of key issues that substitute for ongoing critical reporting,

It’s a form of nostalgic ‘how are we doing coverage ‘ that aims to depoliticize the past or give us a grade, but not look too closely at the causes of the crisis.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Stock Market Rally is Suspect But Larry Summers Comes to its Rescue! / 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 - SPX and some other indices have formed a H&S top which was confirmed with last week's sell-off. An intermediate term correction is under way.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Stock Market Bulls in Charge, Nothing But Bad Choices / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: John_Mauldin

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. – Thomas Sowell

With a few exceptions here and there, crises in government funding don't simply arrive on the doorstep unannounced. Their progress toward the eventual Bang! moment is there for all the world to see. What final misdeed triggers the ultimate phase of the crisis is less predictable, but the root cause is almost always the same: debt. And whether that debt is actually borrowed or is merely promised to the populace, when the market becomes worried that the ability of the government to fund its promises is suspect, then the end is near. Last week we began a series on what I think is an impending crisis in the unfunded pension liabilities of state and local governments in the United States.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Major Signs of a Stock Market Top Forming / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Graham_Summers

Tops never form cleanly.

I’ve made the mistake of attempting to call a top on the “dot” in the past. The reality is that anyone who attempts to do so is exercising their ego more than their judgment.

Market tops occur when investor psychology changes. But it’s not a clean shift. Investors, like any category of people, are comprised of numerous groups or sub-sects: some get it sooner than others.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Stock Market Inflection Point / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Tony_Caldaro

The market staged a surprise this week, continuing its rally from the August 29th low at SPX 1628, by gapping up the first two days and hitting SPX 1690 by Thursday. We had expected the market to run into resistance at the SPX 1658-1667 range and even the OEW 1680 pivot range. But it managed to exceed both. For the week the SPX/DOW were +2.5%, the NDX/NAZ were +1.55%, and the DJ World index was +2.3%. Economic reports came in with a positive bias. On the uptick: wholesale/business inventories, retail sales, the PPI, the M1 multiplier, the WLEI, plus weekly jobless claims and the budget deficit improved. On the downtick: consumer credit/sentiment, and export/import prices. Next week we have industrial production, the FOMC meeting, housing reports and options expiration.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Stock Market Reaches For New Highs Even As Risks Rise / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Sy_Harding

The stock market took advantage of the lack of economic reports this week to rally back toward its bull market highs.

The previous week’s economic reports, particularly the dismal employment report last Friday, were forgotten as the threat of a military strike against Syria faded.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Self-Reliance Investing – Key to Profit & Protection – Part I / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: DeepCaster_LLC

“Collective belief can create its own reality, and at least for the past few years, collective belief is that Fed actions simply make stocks go up, and so they have. The problem is that this outcome is based almost wholly on perception and confidence bordering on superstition – not on any analytical or mechanistic link that closely relates the quantity of monetary base created by the Fed to the equity prices (despite the correlation-presumed-to-be-causation between the two when one measures precisely from the 2009 market low). Some of the deepest market losses in history have occurred in environments of aggressive Fed easing.” John Hussman, Hussman Funds, September 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

Fed QE3-Tapering Impact on Stocks and Gold / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing

By: Zeal_LLC

The Federal Reserve’s upcoming decision on whether to slow its third quantitative-easing campaign’s debt monetizations has to be this year’s most-highly-anticipated market event.  Traders have been trying to game the odds of QE3 tapering literally all year long, driving some sharp market moves.  So the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision due out next Wednesday is likely to be a major market-moving event.

The focus on this imminent FOMC meeting is so hyper-intense that its impact should be considerable no matter what the Fed decides.  The QE3 taper (or lack thereof), its size, and what the FOMC implies for future tapering will almost certainly spark sharp price reactions in the bond markets, currency markets, stock markets, and precious metals.  All have moved violently this year on mere QE3-taper anticipation.

Friday, September 13, 2013

How Gold, Oil, and Syria Really Mix… Plus "3 Strikes Against Apple" / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: The markets are very complicated at the moment, which is why now's an ideal time to reach into the Money Morning Mailbag and address your concerns.

The goal here is simple: To provide understandable, actionable, and, of course, profitable answers to your thoughtful and extremely insightful questions.

Friday, September 13, 2013

Ben Bernanke Financial Crisis Hero / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Bloomberg

Former Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson joined Bloomberg Television’s Tom Keene today on “Street Smart.”

On being Treasury Secretary for two years, six months, and ten days:

“It went quickly, but I hit the ground running. I had fortunately, a year before the crisis to build relationships of trust with the President and that relationship was clearly critical.”

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Nasdaq Presses on Without Apple Support / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: PhilStockWorld

What an exciting index!

On Tuesday, as one of our "5 More Trade Ideas that make 500% in an Up Market", we went long on 16 QQQ Jan $75/80 bull call spreads at $3 ($4,800) and paid for them by selling 2 ISRG 2015 $300 puts for $23.50 ($4,700) for net $100 on the $8,000 spread in our virtual Short-Term Portfolio.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

What You Need to Know About the Dow Stock Index's Big Changes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013

By: Money_Morning

In the biggest Dow Index changes in nearly a decade, Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), and Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) are being dumped from the closely watched 30-stock index.

Athletic gear maker Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) steps into the place of Alcoa, a Dow component for 54 years. Payments company Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) will unseat HP, which joined the blue-chip benchmark in 1997. And Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) replaces BofA, which joined the index five years ago.