Technical Analysis Versus Value in Gold By: Alasdair Macleod | Fri, May 16, 2014 SharePrintEmailAt the outset I should declare an interest. In the 1980s I was a member of
the UK’s Society of Technical Analysis and for a while I was the society’s
examiner and lecturer on Elliott Wave Theory. My proudest moment as a technician
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* US stock markets finished higher again, for the easiest trade in the past three months on “turnaround Tuesday”.* European stock markets continued to find support rising to three week highs overnight, on the back of M&A activity and corporate earnings.* Asian stock markets generally rose spurred on by gains in China, as it found support at its key level.* […]
European markets and select Asian markets were closed today for holidays. This led to a much more subdued trading day than usual. Trading volume on the NYSE Composite was about 77% of its average from the last 10 days, and futures volumes were even less. The S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) opened near the flat-line and traded up about 0.3% […]
Cameron Spencer/Getty ImagesEMERGING stockmarkets go in and out of fashion. They were battered during the Asian and Russian crises of the late 1990s, but then recovered to offer double-digit annual returns in the first decade of the 21st century. Since 2010, however, they have reverted to underperforming their developed-country rivals.The arguments in favour of investing in emerging markets are the […]
So far the overnight session has been a replica of yesterday, with the all important carry trade once again fizzling overnight during Japan trading hours, and dipping as low at 101.60 before staging a modest rebound to the 101.8 level. We expect the “invisible” 102.000 USDJPY tractor beam to be again engaged shortly and provide market support and/or levitate stocks […]
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Stock Market End of Year MusingsStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 30, 2013 – 12:29 PM GMTBy: 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. As noted by Dave […]
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NEW YORK — 2013 was a great year for the average investor, but few market strategists believe that 2014 will be anywhere near as good. The simple strategy of buying U.S. stocks, selling bonds and staying out of international markets isn’t going to […]
A tourist with a protective mask watches the buildings at the Bund under heavy haze in Shanghai, China, this morning. Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/APGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of event across the financial markets, the world economy, the eurozone and the business world.There’s an cautiously optimistic mood in the stock markets this morning, after the latest Chinese trade […]
