Stock Market Risk is On the RunStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 09, 2014 – 03:30 PM GMTBy: EWI Weak Secondary Stocks and Declining Junk-to-Treasury Bond Ratio Indicate the Stock Market is Ripe for ReversalThe following article is adapted from the August 2014 Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, published Aug. 1. For the latest from the Financial Forecast Service, click here.The Dow […]
Stock Market Parabolic Collapse – Sowing the Seeds of the Next DepressionStock-Markets / Financial CrashJul 30, 2014 – 08:08 PM GMTBy: Toby_ConnorIn their infinity wisdom the Fed thinks they have rescued the economy by inflating asset prices and creating a so called “wealth affect”. In reality they have created the conditions for the next Great Depression.Over the last two years […]
The year 2016 will see a number of important events: the US presidential election, the Summer Olympics, and, according to a growing number of market analysts, another financial crisis.Why? What’s so special about 2016? That’s the interesting thing—they all have different reasons.First, I have to admit, I didn’t realize this pattern until it reached a certain level of blatant obviousness […]
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With the U.S. economy improving and geopolitical risks relatively benign, stock market volatility has remained near historic lows.In this environment, correlations between stocks have been relatively low as investors seek out individual opportunities over indexing strategies. When correlations are low, stocks […]
Editor’s note: Article originally published on May 19, 2014Today I want to examine the relationship between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and stock market returns. The purpose will be to determine if periods of strong economic growth correlate to strong stock market returns. Does looking at the macro economic data help or hinder you as an investor?Let’s look at the data […]
Submitted by Monty Pelerin’s World blog,Debt is the great palliative that has enabled the US and other major economies to escape reality, at least for a time. Ayn Rand described such behavior:
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
It is possible to steal from tomorrow to improve today but only at the cost of having […]
Michael Hausam | On 12, Feb 2014Take a moment to compare this eerie chart of the 1929 stock market crash that launched the Great Depression and the current one:Is the market primed for a massive drop? Are the recent gains subject to a similar catastrophic change? We can’t know, but maybe.However, concern over the massive bond-buying by the Federal Reserve […]
Over
to Greece where the country’s leading economic think tank, IOBE, has
not ruled out national output contracting for a seventh
straight year in 2014. Helena Smith in Athens writes:Releasing its quarterly review earlier today, IOBE was unequivocal: in 2014 the recession-hit Greek economy would finally bottom out, it said, but in sharp contrast to official forecasts it could not […]
More than five years after the credit meltdown began and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression crippled the nation, stocks have rebounded sharply to new all-time highs. However, with the Federal Reserve often receiving most of the credit for the rally, many Americans do not view the stock market as a wealth creator.The financial bubbles of yesteryear still […]
The following was written by Cory Massimino. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis the stock market, unlike the rest of the economy, has been outstanding. Last Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index reached record highs following continued confidence in the Federal Reserve’s expansionary monetary policy. Shortly after trading began, the S&P hit […]
