Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Is Oil Topping Out?

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I haven't written about oil lately, so I thought it would be a good time to see what the charts say. On the daily chart, we have a clear...

A Look At the Top 10 IBD Stocks

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Investor's Business Daily publishes a list of the 100 best stocks according to its proprietary analysis system. Overall, the company...

Today's Markets

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One writedown can ruin your whole day....Citigroup announced a horrible writedown and the markets tanked. There are a couple of ways to loo...

Read This Now

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Calculated Risk has a ton of great information on Citigroup's conference call etc.... Well worth the read. (And I thought I didn'...

More Thoughts On Foreign Cash Infusions

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From Bloomberg: Citigroup Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co., two of America's largest financial institutions, turned to outside investors...

Alan, For the Love of God, Please, Please Shut Up

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From the WSJ: The U.S. is probably in or about to enter a recession, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said. The odds are ...

"Recession" in Auto Industry

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From the WSJ: Several auto-industry executives are signaling increasing pessimism over what is already expected to be a weak year for car an...

Sovereign Wealth Funds -- The New LBO?

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In the first have to 2007, LBOs provided a strong upward lift to stocks. As soon as an LBO was announced in one area of the market, the res...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Market Breadth Stinks

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There are four market breadth charts from stockcharts.com. Only one is decent and that is the NY advance decline chart. The rest are declin...

Today's Markets

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ZZZZZZZZ -- oh -- hey -- boring day. The daily 5-minute charts aren't that important compared to the daily chart. Notice that all the ...

Treasury Market Update

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The Treasury market is in a really interesting place right now. First, let's review what moves the treasury market. 1.) Inflation expec...

More Evidence the Feds Are Behind the B of A/Countrywide Deal

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From the WSJ: According to court documents in a bankruptcy case in Houston, Countrywide didn't properly credit a borrower's payments...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Is a Bear Market Forming?, pt. III

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The new year has not been kind to the markets. All of the major averages are down. However, beneath the numbers another bearish trend is d...

The Week Ahead

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Next week will be very interesting. 1.) We get inflation data on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Fed has already stated it will be more prone to...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Last Week's Market Action

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Although the ride seemed pretty wild last week, pulling back it seems much more logical. Simply put, the markets consolidated. All three ch...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Weekend Weimar and Beagle

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The markets are almost closed. So -- it's time to stop thinking about them or the economy. Do anything but that. So, here are some pi...

What Inflation?

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From CBS: Gold futures topped $900 an ounce for the first time ever on Friday on speculation that the Federal Reserve will further cut its k...