Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Saturday, July 07, 2012

Markets, Economies, Central Banks - All Out of Power! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012

By: Sy_Harding

Having topped out into corrections in March and April, most global markets rallied back some in June, fueled by hopes that June’s unusual schedule of promising events would provide rescues for the eurozone and the U.S. economy. As those events arrived, if one or two failed to produce results, the rally only paused momentarily as there were still remaining events that might produce results.

Friday, July 06, 2012

Measuring Global Econcomic Health, How is Dr Copper Feeling? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012

By: Casey_Research

Louis James and Andrey Dashkov, Casey Research writes: Copper is sometimes referred to as "Dr. Copper," because the metal is used in so many industrial applications and is essential for many different sectors of the economy, from infrastructure to housing to consumer electronics. That usually makes its price action a good indicator of the state of the global economy.

Friday, July 06, 2012

Obama and the Stock Market, Presidential Elections 2012 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Zeal_LLC

After the US Supreme Court inexplicably redefined Obamacare to uphold its constitutionality, politics are very much back in the news.  And with the all-important US elections only 4 months away, it’s only going to get worse.  Interestingly, the state of the US stock markets heading into voting is likely to both predict and heavily influence the outcome.  The markets’ impact on Americans’ collective psyche is vast.

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Stock Market Giving Major Correction Signs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: David_Banister

The SP 500 has rallied up into the 1375/77 pivot areas as I had outlined to my subscribers about 10 days ago on the weekend update as possible highs for C wave up from the 1267 SP 500 lows of June.  Many forecasters are now getting very bullish, but I continue to see divergences with The Elliott Wave counts and other indicators that are giving me some short term concerns, and then we can determine if these are long term issues still for the markets.

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Is the Stock Market S&P500 Index Closing on on a Top? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Friday’s strong move to the upside caught a lot of traders on the wrong side of the market. Regardless of whether financial pundits refer to it as a short-squeeze or simply panic level buying is largely irrelevant. Time and price are always the final arbiters of financial markets. Price on Friday was clearly telling us that too many market participants were shorting equities and the Euro.

Monday, July 02, 2012

Silver and Financial Markets Are Manipulated, But So What? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Jesse

Someone sent this video clip to me in response to the things I have written earlier today.

I find the whole discussion absolutely remarkable when viewed from an objective, or at least a non-American and non-financial industry, point of point. The exceptionalism and denial in this is surprising to watch.

Monday, July 02, 2012

Stock Market at the Point of Reversal, Danger of a Flash Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

FXE (125.35) appears to have reached the apex of minor wave 2 on Friday. As spirited and threatening as they appear, short-covering rallies generally don’t have the fuel to make new highs since the new shorts were taken on after the high on June 19. Rallies that are meant to shake out the shorts generally do not involve any investment on behalf of the institutions that engineer them. They are only too glad to buy back the short positions of their hapless victims.

Monday, July 02, 2012

Jim Rogers Says Stock Market Surge from Eurozone Debt Crisis Deal Won't Last / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Money_Morning

David Zeiler writes: Stock markets around the world soared Friday in reaction to the morning's Eurozone debt crisis deal, but noted investor Jim Rogers wasn't impressed.

"This is no more than just another temporary stopgap to make the market feel good for a few hours, days or even weeks," Rogers, Chairman of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC. "Then everybody's going to wake up and say, "This doesn't solve the problem.'"

Monday, July 02, 2012

Stock Market Intermediate Low Confirmed, Corrective Pattern? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are down and, if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over) there will be another steep and prolonged decline into late 2014. It is probable, however, that the steep correction of 2007-2009 will have curtailed the full downward pressure potential of the 120-yr cycle.

SPX: Intermediate trend - SPX is probably putting the finishing touches on an intermediate-term bottom.

Sunday, July 01, 2012

Stock Market Short Squeezes Do Not Change Bear Trends / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

-- VIX retested its wave [2] low, but did not break below it.  This action may be interpreted as a smaller wave (2).  The Master Cycle low on June 21 still stands.  The effort to suppress the VIX has not changed either the Elliott Wave action or the Cycle pattern.
SPX has a window dressing moment.

Sunday, July 01, 2012

Stocks Secular Bear Market Investing / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: John_Mauldin

It's been almost a decade since I co-authored with Ed Easterling of Crestmont Research some research in this letter that later became chapters five and six of Bull's Eye Investing. Although the ten-year anniversary of the book is actually 2013, the current vulnerabilities in the markets encouraged us to revisit the material a bit early, to prepare you for what lies ahead. Reflecting back to yesteryear gives us the opportunity to assess the accuracy of our insights.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Global Stock Market Uptrend Confirmations Pending / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Tony_Caldaro

Another wild week on Wall Street as the market had gap openings on four of the five days. In the end it was a positive week as there was a gap up opening on friday which took the market to its highest levels of the week. Even the economic news improved somewhat to a balance between positive and negative reports. On the uptick: new/pending home sales, Case-Shiller home prices, durable goods orders, the Chicago PMI and weekly jobless claims ticked down. On the downtick: consumer confidence/sentiment, personal spending, new home prices, the monetary base and the WLEI. For the week the SPX/DOW were +1.95%, and the NDX/NAZ were +1.35%. Asian markets rallied 1.3%, European markets rose 2.8%, and the DJ World index gained 2.4%. Next week we have a mid-week holiday with reports on ISM, and on friday the monthly Payrolls report.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Europe Gets What It Wants....Merkel Gives In..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Jack_Steiman

The only person holding back the Eurozone from flooding the banks in need with cash was Germany's Mrs. Merkel. A smart woman who insisted her country would not support efforts to inflate through the printing of dollars to support financially troubled banks throughout Spain, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Italy. I guess the pressure became too overwhelming as she did cave in and finally supported those efforts to inflate the banks. She'll be grilled hard as her country will now also pay the price down the road, but the bottom line is she did cave in and she did support the efforts. The market ate it up in a positive way.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

EU Rescues Stock Markets Just in Time – Again! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Sy_Harding

At their 19th summit meeting since the eurozone crisis began two years ago European officials once again demonstrated their willingness to take markets to the very brink before taking action.

And once again it worked, with markets rallying in hopes that the actions just announced will be more lasting and meaningful than the previous rescue efforts.

Friday, June 29, 2012

A Eurocrash Is Baked in the Cake / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis

By: Casey_Research

In an interview with Louis James, world traveler and legendary speculator Doug Casey makes a compelling case for becoming a "permanent tourist" to be best able to survive the coming economic crash.

Louis James: So Doug, you're off to FreedomFest 2012 shortly, where people will be able to hear your latest thoughts on many subjects. Maybe you can give us a sneak preview on whatever is uppermost on your mind today.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Global Markets Pine for the Money Printing Press / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing

By: Michael_Pento

The global economy continues to falter and the pace of that slowdown is picking up. Recent data showed that German consumer confidence dropped the most since 1998, as Italian confidence dropped to an all-time record low. The level of Spain's non-performing loans reached the highest since 1994. And Chinese consumer loan demand fell to the lowest since 2004, as their PMI continues to drop further below the line of expansion. To round things out, U.S. job openings fell by 325k, the most since September 2008. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia PMI fell the most in nearly a year and despite record low borrowing costs, Existing Home sales fell 1.5% in May.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Two Year Tech Stock Cycle Nearing a Low / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks

By: Tony_Caldaro

In July 2010 we published a piece suggesting the two year cycle low in Tech was scheduled to bottom in August. It did, and the stock market soared. This year, two years later, we are expecting it to bottom in July. Typically during bull markets it bottoms in Q3, and in Q4 during bear markets.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Wrong Treatment To The Disease Of Global Financial Crises / Stock-Markets / Banksters

By: Akhil_Khanna

Introduction

The seeds of the global financial crisis which were triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the USA in 2008 had been sown during the last many decades. The basic reason for the emergence of the crisis is the manner in which the financial industry was allowed to grow with minimal regulation and engage in activities which have little to do with their basic function of acting as a bridge between those who have excess funds by accepting deposits and lending to those who invest in economic activities beneficial for the society in return for profit. In the last few decades, the finance industry, apart from the medical and the arms ammunition industry, has evolved to be one of the most powerful and influential industry around the globe.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Euro Summit Gaps Stock Market Lower / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Jack_Steiman

The Euro Summit is upon us with many questions still unanswered, such as how Greece and Spain will receive funds for bailouts being the primary issue at hand. Everyone is looking for Merkel from Germany to step in and support it all. She, however, said over the weekend that she will have none of it. The Eurozone was not happy about this, thus, all of it sold off while we slept last night. This, of course, allowed our stock futures to fall hard into the open today. We gapped down and never looked back. Nothing horrible, but an overall downer of a day for the bulls as it was mostly a gap and run day, instead of the far more bullish gap and churn, which turns red hollow late.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Bernanke Ponders The Financial Crisis Stock Market Plunge / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012

By: Brady_Willett

Three months ago Ben Bernanke gave a series of lectures and defended the Fed’s actions during the financial crisis.   In what was tantamount to a post-crisis victory lap, Bernanke contended that “we did stop the meltdown”, and “we avoided what would have been, I think, a collapse of the global financial system.” These sentiments echoed similar self-congratulatory remarks made by Mr. Bernanke in 2011 and 2010.  For that matter, they mirrored those made by Bernanke as far back as August 2009: