Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Stock Market Downtrend May Be Underway / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Tony_Caldaro
The bull market that has been full of surprises dropped another one this week. Early in the week the Tech indices, NDX/NAZ, confirmed downtrends. Ending a three month uptrend in those indices. The Cyclical indices, SPX/DOW, continued higher into October with the DOW making a new bull market high. However, they too are weakening now. For the week the SPX/DOW were -2.15%, and the NDX/NAZ were -3.10%. Asian markets lost 1.1%, European markets lost 1.9%, and the DJ World index lost 2.0%. On the economic front things continue to improve: positive reports out numbered negatives ones 8 to 1. On the downtick: the Trade deficit expanded. On the uptick: wholesale inventories, export/import prices, consumer sentiment, the WLEI, the PPI, a Budget surplus, and weekly Jobless claims declined. Next week we get a look at Housing, Industrial production and Retail sales.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Stock Market Forecast for the Coming Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Manas_Banerji
Market is expecting stimulus from China and looks like in this moment that is the one thing that may take markets in more higher levels, this is considering the fact that never ending Euro-zone debt fever is not going to improve much in coming days. Rise in Chinese export for September was good but in coming week Chinese inflation and 3rd quarter growth figures are due to come and those may be huge important events for market. On the other hand expectations are still high about Spanish bail-out and corresponding bond buying by ECB, now it will be very interesting to see whether stock markets get any good thing from that episode.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Stock Market Worst Week Since Memorial Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: PhilStockWorld
Despite positive pre-market futures, the S&P 500 struggled at the open but rallied around the amazingly strong Consumer Sentiment report. But alas the gains had no staying power. Earnings season continues to weigh heavily, with the popular press pointing to concerns about shrinking profit margins in big financials (e.g., the fine print in in the quarterly reports of Wells Fargo and JP Morgan). The S&P 500 closed the day with a modest 0.30% decline, but the tally for the week was -2.21%, the worst weekly close since the four-day Memorial Day week (which saw a 3.02% plunge).
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Stock Market Correction Continues... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Jack_Steiman
The question people are asking is really more about whether this is the beginning of something far more significant than just an ordinary pullback. When markets want to sell, they do so more than the average bull would like. This creates fear and pessimism, the two things the market needs. Markets find a way to do their dirty deeds. When it has its head down, you need to step out of the way. There isn't much anyone can do to stop the machine when the light has flashed red. So now folks will wonder. What we have to do is look objectively, and ask the same question. To me, this is right in line with what one may have expected once the market snapped. It has stair-stepped its way down with some acceleration lately.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Stock Market Investors Confident Despite Global Recession Threat / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Sy_Harding
It’s been a most unusual - some say crazy - year for global stock markets, certainly including that of the U.S.The global economic recovery from the 2007-2009 financial collapse stalled last year and continues to worsen this year, with the International Monetary Fund cutting its forecasts for global economic recovery yet again, including for the U.S., and warning four days ago that risks of the world dropping back into a global recession “are alarmingly high”, and that “no significant improvements appear in the offing.”
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Financial Tsunami Heading To Shore Has Been Building for 80 Years! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: EWI
If you're a passenger aboard a ship in deep water, you can't detect a tsunami; the swells are indistinguishable from regular ocean waves. Wave lengths can be hundreds of miles long, but only when this energy reaches shallow water does the mammoth tsunami wall form -- and can wash over anything in its path.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Stock Market Crash Starts Here / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Well, folks, it appears that the market is going full circle. Sunday is day 1,314 from the March 9, 2009 low. Obviously the market cannot bottom on Sunday, but it appears that the crash scenario is getting more and more serious. The Head & Shoulders neckline at 1430.75 and the Orthodox Broadening Top trendline await us just below current levels.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Goldman Sachs View on the Election, Economy and Euro-zone Crisis / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
By: Bloomberg
Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn told Bloomberg Television's Sara Eisen today that he will "probably read" Greg Smith's tell-all book, "Why I Left Goldman Sachs," which comes out on October 22nd.
Cohn also discussed the global economy, saying that "I understand what the [Federal Reserve is] trying to do and I will tell you this, this is going to be difficult to stop or to exit.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Stock Market Pop and Drop / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
he daily and even the hourly charts often do not reveal the detail of the waves enough to make a good assessment. This morning I go to the 10-minute chart to reveal the clarity of the wave pattern. This suggests that after a brief rally (which may already be over), the market resumes its downward spiral. Today is both a Pivot and Wild Card reversal day, so in that sense, the retracement is welcome. The 50-day moving average is just beneath yesterday’s lows at 1426.00. It appears that, once crossed, selling will resume in earnest.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Stock Market Profit Taking Event in Progress / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Toby_Connor
Since the breakdown out of the bear flag on the dollar index hasn't followed through, the odds now favor that the dollar has generated an intermediate degree bottom. First off this should be a countertrend move as I think the three year cycle has already topped. Based on the intermediate cycle count in the stock market the dollar probably doesn't have more than 3-4 weeks before this rally rolls over and begins another leg down.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Are Businesses Quietly Preparing for a Financial Apocalypse? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Casey_Research
Dan Steinhart, Casey Research writes: US corporations are sitting on more cash than at any point since World War 2.
That's without including banks. I'm only talking about nonfinancial corporations – the ones that sell goods and services and make the economy go.
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Stock Market Sitting on the Precipice / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The SPX is sitting at Short-term support at the close. My model suggests a very powerful move is in the offing, in which the next target may be as low as mid-Cycle support at 1373.79 before the next bounce back, possibly to the 50-day moving average at 1423.77. Once 1373.79 is crossed the second time, the crash may be underway. The Broadening Wedge at 1320.00 may only enhance the decline, since most Broadening Wedges don’t call for a bounce, while the Orthodox Broadening Tops do.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Financial Crash, Economic Crash, We Have Been Warned! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: DeviantInvestor
Bernanke gave his “helicopter” speech in which he made reference to a “helicopter drop of money.” But the critical point in his speech was:
Read full article... Read full article...“U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in term of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.”
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Why You Should Be VERY Afraid of Inflation / Stock-Markets / Inflation
By: Graham_Summers
For the last 80 years or so, financial theory has held that inflation and deflation were mutually exclusive events. We’ve now seen that idea go up in smoke as deflation affects home prices and incomes in the US at the very same time that we experience inflation in energy and food prices courtesy of the Fed’s insane money printing.
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Surmounting Budgetary Crystal Meth and the Ring of Fire / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
By: DeviantInvestor
“…when it comes to debt and to the prospects for future debt, the U.S. is not a ‘clean dirty shirt.’ The U.S., in fact, is a serial offender, an addict whose habit extends beyond weed or cocaine and who frequently pleasures itself with budgetary crystal meth….
“The International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office and the Bank of International Settlements compute a ‘fiscal gap’, which is a deficit that must be closed either with spending cuts, tax hikes or a combinations of both which keeps a country’s debt/GDP ratio under control…
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Saturday, October 06, 2012
No Stock Market Breakout Here..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Jack_Steiman
The market has made a nice move off the bottom this past week, but when it ran into the highs that had thrown a gap lower and a black candle preceding that, it failed. It could not get through that gap. It could not get above that recent black candle at the top, and thus, be ready for more chop to drive you all crazy. And why not? This is how you get folks to feel like they no longer want to be part of the game. Mission accomplished by the big money. Take it down. Tease everyone on the way up. Pull the carpet out once again. Get folks frustrated. And on and on the game goes.
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Saturday, October 06, 2012
Stock Market Seasonality Revisited! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Sy_Harding
Twice a year, in April and October, I remind you of the market’s remarkable seasonality, the popular version of which is known as ‘Sell in May and Go Away’. It calls for getting out of the market on May 1st each year and back in on November 1st.
As with most investment strategies, most investors have only short-term thoughts regarding it. If it worked out the previous year or two, “Well just maybe I’ll consider it for next year.” And if it didn’t work out the previous year then clearly it’s either just a silly theory, or a strategy that may have worked in the past but the pattern has obviously come to an end.
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Once In A Lifetime Cracker Jack Investment Opportunities / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
By: Eelco_Lodewijks
Conclusion
Looking at a brief list (<1 page) of looming crises coupled with the best investment strategy for each, I come to this even shorter conclusion. The common Denominator is going long Gold and Silver. Secondary Strategies would be shorting a) The Dollar, b) Bond Markets and c) Mega Banks (could be bailed out?) in that order.
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Saturday, October 06, 2012
Global Economic and Political Evaluation / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
By: Eelco_Lodewijks
WHAT WE KNOW – AND WHAT IT TELLS US
This is not an exhaustive list, but enough to make you sit up and think.
This is a Global Evaluation and South Africa may be less badly affected, but, when the rest of the world catches a cold, South Africa catches Double Pneumonia.
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Friday, October 05, 2012
U.S. Dollar, Bonds, Gold, Commodities, and Stocks October Trend Forecasts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Over the past year we have had some really interesting things unfold in the market. Investing or even swing trading has been much more difficult because of all the wild economic data and daily headline news from all over the globe causing strong surges or sell offs almost every week.
For a while there you could not hold a position for more than a week without some type of news event moving the market enough to either push you deep in the money or get stopped out for a loss. This has unfortunately caused a lot of individuals to give up on trading which is not a good sign for the financial market as a whole.
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