Stock Market New Highs Less CertainStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 18, 2014 – 04:56 PM GMTBy: Andre_GratianCurrent Position of the MarketSPX: Very Long-term trend – The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, the Fed policy of keeping interest rates low has […]
Stay on Board – Stock Market Big PictureStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 18, 2014 – 11:21 AM GMTBy: Puru_SaxenaBIG PICTURE – Over the past few weeks, geo-political tensions have increased in various parts of the world and we have also experienced a sovereign debt default. Despite these developments, the majority of the stock markets have held up relatively well and […]
Most ‘big data’ marketing is a waste of time, and here’s whyUsing big data to look at past trends is not the best way to work out what your customers want, argues Peter Swan of the UNSW Australia Business School in this cross-posting from The Conversation.A passer-by happens upon a drunk searching for a lost wallet under a streetlight. With nothing in […]
Stock Market Uptrend Looks UnderwayStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 17, 2014 – 01:25 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe market opened the week with a gap up to SPX 1945, pulled back to 1928 by tuesday, then gapped up twice more during the week to hit 1964 on friday. Then some geopolitical news spooked the market and it sold off to SPX 1942 […]
Stock Market Investors Conditioned To Catch The Falling KnifeStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 16, 2014 – 04:03 PM GMTBy: Raul_I_MeijerThat’s not a bad metaphor to work with. “Conditioned to catch the falling knife”. The expression comes from the investment world, but it describes a much larger world today pretty accurately.Investors use it to describe people who see a stock fall, […]
Russian Bear Rattles Stock Markets, but Plunge Protection Team Rides to the RescueStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 14, 2014 – 11:10 PM GMTBy: Gary_DorschInvesting is an inherently risky business with lots of uncertainties. At any given moment, the bullets can fly from any direction, and at a bare minimum, the investor hopes to emerge unscathed from the battlefield. But of […]
Low and Expanding Risk Premiums Are the Root of Abrupt Stock Market LossesStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 13, 2014 – 05:56 PM GMTBy: John_MauldinRisk premiums. I don’t know anyone who seriously maintains that risk premiums are anywhere close to normal. They more closely resemble what we see just before a major bear market kicks in. Which doesn’t mean that they […]
Stock Market Two-Day Rally Ends with a Small LossStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 13, 2014 – 11:49 AM GMTBy: PhilStockWorldA two-day rally in the S&P 500 was snapped today by a small decline. The index opened fractionally lower and spent the next hour struggling at the level of yesterday’s close. It then slowly zigzagged to its -0.45% mid-afternoon intraday low. […]
The Anticipated Stock Market Correction Is DevelopingStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 06, 2014 – 07:46 PM GMTBy: Christopher_QuigleyLast month I wrote that the stock market was overvalued and that caution was warranted.I reckon the anticipated correction started July 31st, a month or so sooner than I expected.Recent price movement has done considerable technical damage to all indices and I do […]
The Most-Anticipated Stock Market CrashStock-Markets / Financial CrashAug 06, 2014 – 07:40 PM GMTBy: John_RubinoUS equities have been going up for so long that most investors — especially those who were only recently enticed into the casino by the apparently easy money on offer — have trouble remembering the last time it was possible to lose big in stocks.Along the […]
