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- My Predictions For The Stock, Commodity And Forex Markets In 2009
2008 was a wild and hairy year for sure. Volatility was the highest I’ve ever seen it and also the highest I can ever find on record.
The Dow (^DJI) dropped from over 14,000 down into the 7000s. Oil dropped from $147 down to just under $40. These were some of the fastest drops I’ve ever seen in my life.
So what’s in store for 2009 for stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies?
Stocks finally stabilize and a few “select” sectors will lead the way out!
In stocks, you are going to … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - U.S. CEOs Could Learn From Their Asian Counterparts
Judging from recent reports that JP Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chief Executive Jamie Dimon and Citigroup Inc. (C) board member Robert W. Rubin will forgo bonuses this year, it appears that at least some U.S. executives are starting to change their habits, as we’ve long suggested they should.
Just yesterday (Monday), in fact, U.S. heavy-equipment giant Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) announced it was cutting executive compensation by as much as 50%, because of weakening global … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - EUR/GBP Looking To Test All -Time High
EUR/GBP has made a major move up since 11/28 at .8234, all the way up to its all time high, ever, at .9552 12/18. Presently looking to test this high again. A fail here of this re-test could start to form a “double top formation with confirmation of this on a break below .9280. Retracement levels are respectively:
.9051 (38.2% Fibonacci)
.8893 (50% and 100 HR MA)
.8738 (61.8%) Fibonacci
With GDP for the UK coming in at .3% which is the lowest since q3 1990 which could … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - On The Road To Deflation
“Deflation, The Economic A-Bomb: make no mistake, the most difficult problem we can face would be deflation. It is a virus in the economy that seizes upon the public mind and causes a vicious cycle of reduced spending, reduced production, and reduced profits. As Krugman recently noted, the deflation of the 1930’s came about during the interregnum between Hoover and Roosevelt. None of the downturns since the Depression has included deflation. Let us hope this one does not … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Banks That Got $188 Billion In Bailout Money This Year Paid Out $1.6 Billion To Top Execs Last Year
The 116 banks that are receiving billions in taxpayer-provided bailout money this year actually paid out $1.6 billion in compensation and benefits to their top executives last year - even though the results at some of these institutions were so poor that they would soon have to turn to Washington for a government-engineered rescue.
The $1.6 billion was paid out to nearly 600 executives at the 116 banks that have so far accepted federal money to bolster their financial foundations, The … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - How Start-Ups Can Rev India's ETFs
India’s deep entrepreneurial spirit still reigns free in helping to boost local economy and exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Innovative ideas have evolved and enterprises shortlisted in competitions to find hot start-ups are being conducted by groups such as the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), which promotes the enterprising spirit in India’s youth, according to Economist.
In India, funding groups only invest in 1%-2% of potential start-ups where rejection is mainly due to lack … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Toyota's First Operating Loss Since 1938 Spells Trouble For Japanese Economy
Joining a chorus of ailing U.S. automakers, Toyota Motor Co. (TM) yesterday (Monday) forecast its first operating loss in 71 years on plummeting demand and sharp appreciation of the Japanese yen. The announcement prompted Moody’s Investors Service to consider downgrading the company’s top-rated credit.
But the news may have bigger implications for Japan’s entire economy, as the country’s exports continue to take a beating from sagging worldwide demand for its products.
Japanese … [visit site to read more]
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A new report by AP shows little oversight or accountability for TARP money given to banks. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Global Investing Roundups: Wal-Mart, Caterpillar, Palm, UBS
Kenya Growth Stalls Quickly; Caterpillar Cuts Pay and Jobs; Wal-Mart Offers $2.66 Billion for Chile’s Biggest Grocer; Walgreen Falls Short, Cuts Opening Plans; Palm Gets $100 Million Injection; JPMorgan Buys UBS Assets; Oil Falls 6%
Kenya’s economy grew 2.1% in the third quarter, down significantly from the 6.3% gross domestic product growth it posted a year earlier. On top of the global financial crisis, Kenya suffered from post-election violence and a severe drought, Bloomberg … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Will The Stock Market Get A Santa Claus Rally?
With only three days to go until Christmas, investors are now hanging their hopes on a visit from Old St. Nick.
But will Santa Claus arrive in time to reward them?
Let’s hope so since it’s hard to imagine that 2009 could be as bad as 2008 turned out to be. After all, the bullish argument for equities has to start somewhere.
From Reuters by Leah Schnurr entitled: Stock investors hope Santa touches down“Investors could do their holiday shopping on Wall Street this week as … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Morgan Stanley - Its Big Part In The Great Housing/Mortgage Crisis
Where does the blame for the mortgage and housing crisis lie? That is the big debate still raging. I receive hundreds of emails each week and a year ago everyone blamed the home owner. Now after two years of constant lies and discovery, things have changed considerably.
Most are finally coming around to understand the truth - that the greater housing and mortgage crisis is not a result of millions of borrowers going wild, buying beyond their means blinded by greed. Nor was it … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Tuesday Outlook Of E-Mini S&P Index Futures
I’m looking for the EMINI to continue its move down. Today (Monday) it moved outside of the triangle briefly and touched the 856.25 level. It made an intraday low of 852.75. The volume was light, given the holiday and as a result it moved back up within the triangle. Market Bbeadth started out weak and got worse as the day progressed. All 3 indicators indicate lower: CCI, DI and Slow Stochastic. They are all coming off higher levels. Looking for continuation down.
A move … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: AUD/USD Trading Between Moving Averages
Without much direction for markets heading into year-end, we have been watching currencies range for the last few sessions. On the AUD/USD pair, the price has been within the 100 hour and 200 hour moving averages since the end of last week, and without any significant news or events, it could be safe to assume the pair will remain in this range through the end of the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - The Basics Of Price Charts
You’re looking at a stock chart for the first time - where do you start?! What do all those lines mean?
Price data is often plotted on the vertical or Y-Axis while time data (minutes, days, weeks, months) is often plotted on the horizontal or X-Axis. The goal of reading a chart is to determine where price has traveled over a given period of time and determine potentially where it might be going through studying past and present price data.
There are a few popular methods of … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Toyota's Loss: A First Time For Everything
Monday morning, Toyota Motor Corporation (TM) announced it expects its first loss in 70 years. But the Japanese automaker sits on almost $19 billion is cash with little debt - a far cry from the dismal situation over a General Motors (GM).
Around the world governments have been struggling to find answers to the collapse of the credit markets. The result has been massive government investments and bailouts. But it’s been the auto industry that’s drawn the most criticism and … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Toyota Projects First Loss In 70 Years
To give you an idea of how tough things are for the Auto Industry right now, Toyota (TM) is projecting a loss for the present fiscal year:
From The NY Times:
“TOKYO - Toyota Motor , the Japanese auto giant, said Monday that it expected its first operating loss in 70 years, underscoring how the economic crisis was spreading across the global auto industry.On Monday, Toyota said it expected an operating loss in its auto operations of 150 billion yen, or $1.7 billion, for the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Will China's Rate Cut Boost China ETFs?
For the fifth time in four months, China slashed interest rates in hopes of reigniting their flagging economy and exchange traded funds (ETFs).
The last few rate cuts haven’t done the trick, as consumers continue to pull back from spending, and manufacturing activity continues to decline, reports Joe Mcdonald for the Associated Press. Their benchmark one-year lending rate will decline by 0.27% to 2.25% starting Tuesday.
Just four weeks ago, China made its biggest rate cut in 11 years, … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: EUR/USD Tests 100-Hour Moving Average
Revisiting yesterday’s (Monday) EUR/USD retracement analysis from the 11/21 lows to the 12/18 highs, we see the pair did in fact test the 100 hr moving average during the European session but proceeded to fall off. The pair has been trading up and down the 1.39 handle for most of the time and obviously reacting to indicators on light volume during the holiday season. We will continue to watch the 100 hr mavg for resistance and target the rising 200 hr mavg as … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Monday's Market Recap: Stocks Finish Lower
Wall Street finished lower on Monday to begin the week. The Dow (^DJI) suffered a loss of 59 points after bearish trading, and finished the day at 8,519 points. The Nasdaq (^IXIC) lost 31 points, and finished with 1,532 points. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) went down 16 points, and closed at 871 points. As for smaller companies, the Russell 2000 lost 11 points, and closed at 475 points. In international markets, Japan’s Nikkei 225 (^N225) gained 1.57% while Britain’s FTSE 100 (^FTSE) … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - ETF Wrap-Up: A Light Volume Day
This is no way to start the holiday week is it? The only folks pleased by today’s (Monday) action are those driving a Hummer and/or snowmobiling. This type of action is why Chicken Dave still maintains high cash balances at the ETF Digest.
Bulls will cheer the light volume today as no big thing but you should expect this type of action in either direction until trading resumes after the New Year.
I suspect tomorrow may offer more interesting action since at least there will be … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Pre Market: GM And Ford Ratings Cut
The stories, data, and stocks that may have the greatest impact during the next trading session. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Procter & Gamble Stock Manipulation?
I was looking at Procter & Gamble’s (PG) 5min chart today (Monday) at the end of the day. It’s a very interesting pattern of lower lows and higher highs on increasing volume. Higher Opens and Higher Closes. The other lines are moving averages. Prior to the pattern, it looks as though the stock closed below the 100 period EMA. It then looks like some sort of buying /selling program came in. It would almost seem like the pattern was created by a machine, to give the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Today's Woes: Plenty Of Influences
It’s easy to blame current circumstances on greedy bankers, corrupt politicians, incompetent policymakers, short-sighted corporate executives, and reckless speculators. While that is true to a considerable extent, there’s more to it than that.
In reality, today’s woes stem from a wide variety of influences, not least of which are naturally occurring cyclical forces that have long served to eliminate excesses and address inefficiences that built when times were good..
That is … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Walgreen's Scaling Back
Walgreen Company, or Walgreen’s (WAG) reported $0.41 for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 (August fiscal year). Earnings were $0.06 below our expectations and sales came in $200 million short. The difficult retail environment negatively impacted front-end (general merchandise) same-store sales, which were flat for the quarter.
After experiencing robust same-store sales growth of 7.7% and 8.1% in fiscal 2006 and 2007, respectively, total sales in comparable stores increased 4.3% in … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Dividend Stocks In The News
Last week saw even more notable dividend increases as companies from many sectors showed confidence not only in their ability to generate increasing profits, but also to share the wealth with their owners.
BB&T Corporation (BBT), which is a financial holding company, announced that its Board has approved a 2.20% increase in its quarterly dividend from $0.46 to $0.47 per common share. BB&T Corporation is a dividend aristocrat which has consistently increased its dividends for … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Depression, Anyone?
Not that I suscribe to the next Great Depression surge that the media and some economists seem to actually wish for as another way to savage President Bush and his capitalist henchmen, the following quotes provide interesting historical perspective on how the last Great Depression was seen - or unseen:
September, 1929:
“There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue” - Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury.October 14, 1929:
“Secretary Lamont and officials of … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - 2 Ways To Play Japanese Yen's Movements With ETFs
Japanese authorities signaled that they may intervene in the currency markets to soften and limit the yen’s appreciation.
What effect will this have on Japanese markets and the exchange traded funds (ETFs) that track these markets?
The yen just recently lost ground on the euro and fell from a 13-year high against the dollar, forcing Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa to watch foreign exchange markets and gear up to make currency moves for monetary policy. The last time … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - The New Doom-And-Gloomers
My, how times have changed.
A year ago, few policymakers, ”strategists,” or economists, here or elsewhere, saw an economic downturn coming (even though the National Bureau of Economic Research now says that a U.S. recession actually began in December 2007).
Now, as the following Agence France-Presse report, “World Faces Total Financial Meltdown: Spain’s Bank Chief,” reveals, we have central bankers who sound like doom-and-gloomers (gearing up to write their own books, … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - How You Can Play China's ETFs
By now, all investors should know that China is a growing force in the global economy, but the question at hand is how does an investor play the Chinese market with exchange traded funds (ETFs) to satisfy his or her appetite? … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Oil Prices Dwindle Below $40
Front month crude prices continued to plummet this session as poor data contineud to sour energy demand hopes. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Panasonic Says Hello To Sanyo
After much anticipation following some delay, electronics giant Panasonic has finalized its buyout of domestic rival Sanyo that will help the company get much needed boost. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Corporate Debt Buyout Speculation Lifts The Nikkei
All major Asian/Paciic markets sunk this past trading session besides the Nikkei which gained on speculation that the Bank of Japan will buyout some corporate debt to boost the economy. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Stocks Post Moderate Losses
Stocks are moderately lower as the auto sector loses ground following Toyota’s warning. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Minimized Trading Volume Disturbs The Dollar
Minimized trading volume due to the upcoming holidays as well as a lack of optimism over the automaker bailout being able to salvage the economy led to the US dollar continuing to plunge in trading against the euro this session. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: No Green For Walgreen's
Drugstore operator Walgreen’s (WAG) announced this morning that its fiscal first quarter profit tanked by 10% as it tried to manage a consumer slump while openig some 200+ stores nationwide. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - If Holiday Retail Stats Don't Have Economists Saying "Humbug," Tuesday's GDP Report Certainly Will
If it’s good enough for Wal-Mart…
Looks like the discounting model pioneered by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailing giant, will make its way to some rather unlikely high-end retailers: Barney’s New York Inc. and Neiman Marcus Inc. have announced significant price reductions (up to 75%) over the next few days to avoid a disastrous holiday shopping season.
For optimists, the message here is that all hope for holiday retail sales is not yet lost. A … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Charting: E-Mini S&P 500 Index Futures
You can see that we’ve been rangebound for a month, trading between the 825-925 range. We’ve been forming a symmetrical triangle and a break of that triangle could set us up for a retest of 828. I’ve identified two possible areas of support on a break of the triangle: 858 and 841 seem to be two areas of support on the hourly charts.
On an daily close below the trendline, I’ll go long SDS with a tight … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Long-Term Structure Of The US Dollar Index
A lot of us are getting caught up in the recent strength… now weakness… in the US Dollar Index, but some may have forgotten the long term structure that overlays the current price movements. Let’s take a look at the US Dollar Index from 1984 to present and try do determine an appropriate backdrop from which to characterize the most recent price action.
US Dollar Monthly Chart from 1984:
Despite a healthy move from 1995 to 2001, the US Dollar Index actually has been in a large … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - ETF Update: Strength In Coal? Really?
An important strength of a trading system is that it forces you to think. Humans form opinions and stick to them. The blinders of selective perception and confirmation bias lead everyone’s fundamental analysis to conclusions that are difficult to budge.
We find that a regular review of the market, sector by sector, helps to avoid these biases. Our own approach looks at Trend, sector Cycles, and adds a touch of Anticipation. Since we do this with a universe of 57 ETF’s … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Bank Of China Tries To Spur Economy With Fifth Rate Cut In Three Months
The People’s Bank of China continued nipping away at its one-year lending rate, cutting off 0.27 percentage points to 5.31%, its fifth rate cut in three months.
China also lowered its deposit rate by the same amount and reduced the proportion of deposits lenders have to hold as reserves by 0.5 percentage points to 15.5%, Bloomberg reported. All rate cuts will take effect Tuesday.
China’s slow burn of its interest rates is a calculated response to falling numbers across its board: … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - US Treasury Yield Curve Rates
Treasury rates the yield curve based on the closing market bid yields on actively traded T-securities in the OTC market. The yield values are read from the yield curve at fixed maturities, from one month to 30 years. The model is constructed to provide a yield for a 10 year maturity, for example, even if no outstanding security has exactly 10 years remaining to … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: European Pairs Drop After Chinese Rate Cut
The EUR/USD and GBP/USD took a hit directly after China cut rates yet again. The EUR/USD found some support at the 14 Hour MA while the GBP/USD hit session lows as the pair has dropped over 200 PIPS tonight since its session … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Panasonic Offers $9 Billion For Controlling Stake In Sanyo
Panasonic Corp. (PC) said Friday that it will spend up to $9 billion to acquire majority stake in rival Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. (SANYY.PK).
The merger would create Japan’s second-largest electronics manufacturer behind Hitatchi Ltd. (HIT), as Panasonic is the world’s No. 1 plasma TV maker and Sanyo is one of the world’s largest rechargeable battery makers, Reuters reported.
Should the deal clear regulators, Panasonic said one of its intentions is restructuring both companies. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Automakers Not Out Of The Woods
The auto industry receives a bailout but analysts are skeptical it will work. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: EUR/USD Following Technicals In A Thin Market
As the holidays and New Year approach, the markets as always thin out with a lot of real money on the sidelines. Looking at our hourly retracement analysis (11/21 lows - 12/18 highs) on the EUR/USD pair, although the moves last week look extraordinary, they are following some technicals, which we will continue to adhere to through the end of the year. After dropping from last weeks highs on Friday, highlighted on the chart below you see the pair trade to the 38.2% retracement level and … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: USD/JPY Defended By 200-Hour Moving Average
We have followed the Yen on its remarkable rally and have noticed that the 200 hour moving average has defended the Yen against the USD since it penetrated it the last time at the end of November. On the chart below you will notice that has happened again today (Monday), making it the third day in approximately a month. We will continue to watch this level and use it as a reference point until the market dictates … [visit site to read more]
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No Credit… No License… No History? No Problem?
Even before our current mortgage meltdown, most banks would never touch a prospective customer with any one of the above issues, let alone all three. But there’s one bank in a quiet little corner of Pennsylvania that’s made thousands of loans - all to customers who have no credit history, zero credit scores, no drivers license and nothing beyond an eighth grade education.
The most amazing part is that they’ve never had even one … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Good Oil Forecast, Bad Oil Forecast
Here’s the good oil forecast: back in the fall of 2005, I predicted oil prices going back down to $35.
Here’s the bad forecast: I said it would happen by the end of 2006.
Right price target, wrong time span. So what went wrong?
The process behind the forecast is still sound, I think. World demand for oil can change quickly as the economy grows. World oil supply cannot change quickly, because of time lags in exploration and development (which means putting in the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - US Earnings Preview For Dec 22-26
Volume should be comparatively light over the final 2 weeks of the year, with no schedule events of significant importance occurring. Year-end window dressing will have an impact on trading direction, though many traders and fund managers are simply looking ahead to 2009.
The U.S. exchanges will close early on Christmas Eve. New Year’s Eve (Dec 31) will be a full trading day, however. Expect light volume on the next 2 Fridays, Dec 26 and Jan 2.
Only 7 companies are scheduled to report … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Obama's New Energy Policy: Good Or Bad For ETFs?
Will the red flags that are waving across Washington as it gears up for an effort to remake America’s energy policy delay or accelerate the move to cleaner energy and benefit or hinder alternative and clean energy exchange traded funds (ETFs)?
To start off the rally, President-elect Barack Obama has preached that he will not raise gas taxes and doesn’t plan to slash the use of coal in power generation, a different opinion than his expected choice to oversee national energy policy, … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - General Electric Rated AAA In Name Only?
If anyone needed more proof that in general people and companies are becoming less creditworthy, S&P just lowered the General Electric Company (GE) outlook to negative. It said that there is a one in three chance that it would lose its AAA rating within the next two years.
The problem mostly stems from its very large GE Capital unit. GE is sometimes only half jokingly referred to as a hedge fund that also makes light bulbs and jet engines. On a stand-alone basis, S&P indicated … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - What Is Dividend Growth Investing All About?
Dividend Growth Investing is a strategy that allows investors to purchase dividend stocks that have a long history of increasing their dividend payments to shareholders. These stocks have sound business models which have withstood the test of many recessions. Most of the dividend growth stocks that I follow represent strong consumer brands like Coca Cola (KO), Aflac (AFL) or Procter and Gamble (PG) which people use on a daily basis. Recessions do affect these companies, but not to … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - How ETFs Can Benefit From Ports' Upgrades
Sunny skies could be off in the distance for shipping exchange traded funds (ETFs), because despite signs of pullback in the shipping industry, many ports are looking to prepare for that time when the listing economy finally rights itself.
Los Angeles and Long Beach port officials see the signs of retrenchment in the shipping industry, and feel that now is the time for expansion even if they are met with objections across the board, reports Ronald D. White for The Los Angeles … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - A Rounded Reversal In Store For RIMM?
Is a Rounded Reversal chart pattern in store for Research in Motion (RIMM)? The chart appears to be setting up that way - let’s see this development and take a closer look.
RIMM Daily:
It would appear from the chart that RIMM is indeed in the middle section of a possible “Rounded Reversal” or saucer-style bottom pattern, where swings are contracting and appear to be turning upwards. Notice the momentum oscillator has consistently been registering positive momentum divergences … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - RIO Outlook To Clear Early 2009
We are reiterating our Hold recommendation on Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, or CVRD (RIO). In spite of the challenging international economic environment for cyclical industries like mining, RIO reported very positive numbers for the second and third quarters of 2008.
The stock’s current valuation already discounts a deep, worldwide economic recession. At this point, however, it is not clear how long this difficult economic environment will last.
At the beginning of 2009, … [visit site to read more]
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The price of oil has been brought low by the collapsing global economy as we all know. What next? To see how far the economy may have to fall (and thus how long we can expect the oil price to be under pressure from reduced demand), let’s look at the bursting bubbles that are causing the economy to implode. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - What's Weighing On Natural Gas?
In its weekly natural gas status report, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported last Thursday that gas in storage totaled 3,167 billion cubic feet (Bcf) for the week ended December 12, 2008. This represents a net withdrawal of 124 Bcf from the preceding week, the largest this heating season, but modestly below the 128 Bcf withdrawn this week last year and on average over the last five years.
Current storage levels are now 1.3% below last year’s level, but still above the 5-year … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Finding Good News In Falling Prices
NY TIMES - So amid all the legitimate worries about deflation, it’s worth considering what may be the one silver lining in the incredibly bad run of recent economic news: The cost of living is falling. The cost of fruits, vegetables, clothing and vehicles are all dropping. Housing prices have been falling for more than two years, and a barrel of oil costs about $45, down from $145 in July.
Jobs are disappearing, bonuses are shrinking and raises will be hard to come by. But the drop … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Hudson City Bank Stays A Sell
New York-based Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. (HCBK) is now the largest thrift in the nation, based on either assets (>$50 billion) or market capitalization (>$8.0 billion).
HCBK’s 3Q08 earnings of $0.25 per share were in line with our expectations. Results again experienced strong lending revenues from enhanced net interest margin, even though provisioning levels increased and other credit quality metrics expanded.
Despite positive EPS trends, we remain concerned as to the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Chart Of The Week: Fed Funds Rate Drops To 0.11%
Thanks to the Federal Reserve’s decision to drop their target Fed Funds rate to an all-time record of 0.00% to 0.25%, the subject of this week’s chart of the week is a no brainer.
The Fed has 55 years of Fed Funds rate data and I have chosen to highlight not the target rate announced by the FOMC, but the daily effective federal funds rate, which is a volume-weighted average of rates on trades arranged by major brokers.
Not surprisingly, Friday’s effective Fed Funds rate of 0.11% is a … [visit site to read more]
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