A 10 year chart of the S+P is probably the most interesting chart for showing the overall market dynamics at the moment. And though the S&P 500 tracks America’s 500 biggest stocks, it’s usually a good proxy…
November 20th, 2009 | The Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "S&P 500"
Underlying Demand During a Housing Shortage
That is clever to suggest that when rates rise people will have to find another way to say that houses are affordable. But we reckon when rates rise, as they eventually must, a lot of new home buyers will find out that access to cheap credit does not make a house affordable. It just makes the amount of debt you owe to the bank a lot larger.
September 30th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 41 comments | Continued
Markets Rise While the Economy Sinks
The problem is that the global economy in general, and the US economy in particular, is operating on so much medication that it is difficult to conduct an appropriate examination of the patient at the current time.
September 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Australia Possibly Among Top 10 Countries Globally Measured By Size of Gas Reserves
“We expect that Australia, in the very near future, will be among the top 10 countries globally measured by the size of its gas reserves. The size of Australia’s gas reserves means that further strong growth in this country’s LNG exports is assured,” Dr. Bethune said in Energy Quest’s latest quarterly report.
September 2nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 8 comments | Continued
Discussing the Dreaded Fibonacci Retracement
So let’s do that! And actually, it’s not inherently dreadful. Our Swarm trading technician Gabriel Andre uses the Fibonacci numbers to track trends in commodities, currencies, and stocks.
In fact, he’s been muttering to himself in French the last week that September may be a very good month for short sellers.
August 13th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 23 comments | Continued
U.S. Dollar Index Showing All Sorts of Weakness
The U.S. dollar taketh…and the U.S. dollar giveth away. That’s one way of looking at the flurry of activity in markets right now. The Aussie dollar is at a ten-month high. Oil is up 75% since January, with crude trading at $74/barrel. Copper is at a ten-month high. The S&P 500 has cracked 1,000 again.
August 4th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Attack of the Bond Yields
Just to be clear though, the big trends now are soaring inflation and falling financial asset prices, along with increased energy scarcity. This produces a variety of pair trades, which include: short government bonds, long energy, short residential housing, long gold, and probably short commercial real estate and corporate bonds as well, while going long farmland and agriculture.
June 11th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Last Decade: Buy Gold, This Decade: Buy Energy
It’s not technically a new decade yet. But if the trade of the last decade was to sell stocks and buy gold, then maybe the best trade for the next ten years is to sell bonds and buy energy. Gas, coal, oil, conventional, unconventional, renewable, alternative. You have a whole portfolio of choices.
June 10th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
China Performs a Kind of Financial Alchemy
“Chinese industrial output fell for four months between July and November, but has since recovered all those losses. A similar pattern has been seen in Korea, where industrial output suffered a sharp decline around year end but apparently made up about half of that over February and March.
May 19th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
Buying Stocks for Dividends Makes Sense…
In fact, things got so bad back then, and companies were so reluctant to cut dividends (probably figuring that nobody in their right mind would buy their shares otherwise), that “in 1933, American earnings per share dropped below dividends”! Wow! The companies paid out more money to shareholders than the company made!
March 17th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 3 comments | Continued