Showing posts with label Stocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stocks. Show all posts
Saturday, August 4, 2012
NEWS stocks Singapore-DBS upgrades the NOL to store; the target of S $ 1.23
DBS Vickers upgraded container shipping firm Neptune OrientLines (NOL) to store itstarget fully valued and raised the price to $ 1.23 from S $ 1.00 S, referring to stabilisingoutlook.
NEWS, stocks down slightly Singapore-after ECB disappoints markets
Singapore shares were slightly down after the EuropeanCentral Bank disappointed markets taking not only hinted in actionand the immediate future steps in order to prevent fiscalwoes of the euro area. 
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Stocks stage big rebound between fear euro
Richard drew/APTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Stocks of raw materials staged a big rebound Wednesday, recovering from a drop of nearly 200 points in the industrial average earlier bdao Jones on the same day as worries mounted over the future of the euro in Greece.
Close, Dow was off only 7 points.
Tech shares were among the biggest decliners as weaker revenue in today's forecast expected of Dell Inc., the third largest computer supplier, spurred fears that spending was significant faster than expected global tech had already earlier.
Euro area officials agreed that each country in the euro prepare individual emergency plan that Greece will decide to leave the single currency bloc. The agreement was reached during the Eurogroup working group conference call, which lasted for about an hour on Monday.
"It's very scary to hear about this type of conversation, even if it makes sense, because of the lack of emergency like the path clearly there continues to be very problematic for banks," said James Dunigan, Chief Investment Officer of PNC wealth management in Philadelphia.
Falling oil prices also depressed the energy domain.
Earlier in the session, the stock was briefly cut after new data showed the US paid in home sales rose more than expected that in April prices pushed higher. The latest reading on the sales of new homes offered further evidence of the housing market turned the corner.
"Data adds to growing stabilization of housing, but it is not enough to overcome the General issues driving today," said Dunigan, who helps oversee the assets of 112 billion.
Facebook Inc., banks, including Morgan Stanley, being sued by shareholders of a social network, who claimed the defendants hid weak growth forecasts of Facebook in advance of 16 billion dollar public conditioned.
However, Facebook shares closed 3 percent.
Related: Facebook's Dream Foundation begins to look like a nightmare
Reuters contributed to this report.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Strategies: Stocks and the Economy, Singing Different Tunes
AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota
“THE test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in 1936. He might have been describing the difficulties faced by current analysts of the financial markets. The stock market roared through the first quarter of this year, yet most people believe that the economy isn’t really healthy. That may not be a contradiction, but making sense of it may require some awkward mental gymnastics. Certainly, the market’s recent rise has been spectacular. While stocks have dithered in April, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index returned nearly 30 percent from its low of last Oct. 3 through March this year. Yet the economic picture has been mixed at best, with unemployment still above 8 percent and the gross domestic product growing at an estimated annualized rate of only 2.5 percent in the first quarter, according to the Wall Street consensus. The latest New York Times/CBS News poll last week found that unemployment and the economy remain the main concerns of most voters, 70 percent of whom said the economy is “very” or “fairly” bad. That was an improvement over October, when 86 percent said the economy was “very” or “fairly” bad, but it’s hardly upbeat. This kind of dichotomy — market returns that may not accurately reflect the underlying economy — actually occurs rather often, and it poses a ticklish problem, both for professional money managers and for the rest of us. For example, if you focus on the economy and find that it’s weak, you might think it wise to lighten the risk in your portfolio and concentrate on protecting your assets. On the other hand, if you focus on the market’s momentum and believe stocks are likely to keep climbing, you might try to ride that wave until it crests. But if you look at both the economy and the market, and believe both that the economy is weak and that the market’s momentum is upward, you may not be entirely comfortable with any course of action. Yet if you’re fortunate enough to have money to invest, you must do something. In a report last week, Ned Davis, founder of Ned Davis Research, an investment research firm in Venice, Fla., put the problem this way: What’s more important, he asked, “being right or making money?” He lands squarely on the side of making money, and says stocks are likely to rise over the next six months or so. But he acknowledged that he must balance his short-term views against his longer-term convictions about the state of the economy. As a “secular bear,” he says he is convinced that the economy is plagued by deep-seated maladies that will take years to clear up and that, at some point, the stock market will resume a long-term downward trend. But as a close analyst of technical market indicators, he is advising clients that by year-end the market is likely to rise, though with some caveats. There may well be a correction — a relatively modest decline — in the next few months, his firm has concluded. But it is telling clients that a cyclical bull market is in place — a strong upturn within the longer downward trend. This may well seem confusing. Mr. Davis said as much, reassuring clients: “I remain a secular bear. I am concerned about the long-term consequences of the Fed’s zero interest rate and easy credit policies and exploding government deficits.” Despite these worries, he also said that it didn’t make sense, at least right now, to “fight the Fed and fight the tape.” In a telephone conversation, Ed Clissold, United States market strategist for Ned Davis Research, explained the firm’s analysis, which has a wide following among money managers. Much of the apparent paradox is a question of timing, he said. “Four years from now, you may find that the stock market is trading in the same range as it is today,” he said. But, he added, it is likely to cycle up and down in the interim. And over a much longer time frame, “global deleveraging still needs to be completed, and that will have negative effects for the stock market.” While the market may consolidate in the weeks ahead, two main factors argue in favor of a continuing upward trend this year, the firm has concluded. The first of these is “the Fed” — meaning the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world, which have adopted extraordinarily accommodative monetary policies and committed to redoubling their efforts if economic growth falters. The stock market generally responds favorably to loose money. The second is “the tape,” the momentum of the market and its individual sectors, which continue to show favorable patterns. In essence, what goes up tends to keep going up — until it no longer does. And there are certainly many factors weighing on the market, both technical and economic. A short-term consolidation might be in order after a stock market rise as sharp as the recent one; in a benign forecast, a modest decline would prepare the way for a bigger run upward for several months, which Ned Davis Research sees as the likeliest outcome. Stock valuations are already elevated, the firm says, and while that may not be an immediate problem, it implies that some excesses will need to be wrung out of the market down the road. ENORMOUS problems remain for the global economy. The European financial crisis has been contained but not solved; further flare-ups are quite possible and could derail the market. Longer term, Mr. Clissold said, reversing the credit expansion and reducing debt loads are likely to have negative effects on riskier assets. Buy-and-hold investors who maintain diversified portfolios and rigorously reinvest dividends and interest can try to ride out these cycles, Mr. Clissold said, and “have what will probably be modest returns” in the years ahead. Market professionals who try to do better than that will need to be nimble indeed.
AppId is over the quota
“THE test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in 1936. He might have been describing the difficulties faced by current analysts of the financial markets. The stock market roared through the first quarter of this year, yet most people believe that the economy isn’t really healthy. That may not be a contradiction, but making sense of it may require some awkward mental gymnastics. Certainly, the market’s recent rise has been spectacular. While stocks have dithered in April, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index returned nearly 30 percent from its low of last Oct. 3 through March this year. Yet the economic picture has been mixed at best, with unemployment still above 8 percent and the gross domestic product growing at an estimated annualized rate of only 2.5 percent in the first quarter, according to the Wall Street consensus. The latest New York Times/CBS News poll last week found that unemployment and the economy remain the main concerns of most voters, 70 percent of whom said the economy is “very” or “fairly” bad. That was an improvement over October, when 86 percent said the economy was “very” or “fairly” bad, but it’s hardly upbeat. This kind of dichotomy — market returns that may not accurately reflect the underlying economy — actually occurs rather often, and it poses a ticklish problem, both for professional money managers and for the rest of us. For example, if you focus on the economy and find that it’s weak, you might think it wise to lighten the risk in your portfolio and concentrate on protecting your assets. On the other hand, if you focus on the market’s momentum and believe stocks are likely to keep climbing, you might try to ride that wave until it crests. But if you look at both the economy and the market, and believe both that the economy is weak and that the market’s momentum is upward, you may not be entirely comfortable with any course of action. Yet if you’re fortunate enough to have money to invest, you must do something. In a report last week, Ned Davis, founder of Ned Davis Research, an investment research firm in Venice, Fla., put the problem this way: What’s more important, he asked, “being right or making money?” He lands squarely on the side of making money, and says stocks are likely to rise over the next six months or so. But he acknowledged that he must balance his short-term views against his longer-term convictions about the state of the economy. As a “secular bear,” he says he is convinced that the economy is plagued by deep-seated maladies that will take years to clear up and that, at some point, the stock market will resume a long-term downward trend. But as a close analyst of technical market indicators, he is advising clients that by year-end the market is likely to rise, though with some caveats. There may well be a correction — a relatively modest decline — in the next few months, his firm has concluded. But it is telling clients that a cyclical bull market is in place — a strong upturn within the longer downward trend. This may well seem confusing. Mr. Davis said as much, reassuring clients: “I remain a secular bear. I am concerned about the long-term consequences of the Fed’s zero interest rate and easy credit policies and exploding government deficits.” Despite these worries, he also said that it didn’t make sense, at least right now, to “fight the Fed and fight the tape.” In a telephone conversation, Ed Clissold, United States market strategist for Ned Davis Research, explained the firm’s analysis, which has a wide following among money managers. Much of the apparent paradox is a question of timing, he said. “Four years from now, you may find that the stock market is trading in the same range as it is today,” he said. But, he added, it is likely to cycle up and down in the interim. And over a much longer time frame, “global deleveraging still needs to be completed, and that will have negative effects for the stock market.” While the market may consolidate in the weeks ahead, two main factors argue in favor of a continuing upward trend this year, the firm has concluded. The first of these is “the Fed” — meaning the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world, which have adopted extraordinarily accommodative monetary policies and committed to redoubling their efforts if economic growth falters. The stock market generally responds favorably to loose money. The second is “the tape,” the momentum of the market and its individual sectors, which continue to show favorable patterns. In essence, what goes up tends to keep going up — until it no longer does. And there are certainly many factors weighing on the market, both technical and economic. A short-term consolidation might be in order after a stock market rise as sharp as the recent one; in a benign forecast, a modest decline would prepare the way for a bigger run upward for several months, which Ned Davis Research sees as the likeliest outcome. Stock valuations are already elevated, the firm says, and while that may not be an immediate problem, it implies that some excesses will need to be wrung out of the market down the road. ENORMOUS problems remain for the global economy. The European financial crisis has been contained but not solved; further flare-ups are quite possible and could derail the market. Longer term, Mr. Clissold said, reversing the credit expansion and reducing debt loads are likely to have negative effects on riskier assets. Buy-and-hold investors who maintain diversified portfolios and rigorously reinvest dividends and interest can try to ride out these cycles, Mr. Clissold said, and “have what will probably be modest returns” in the years ahead. Market professionals who try to do better than that will need to be nimble indeed.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Equity Trades - Is the US Dollar Hurting Your Stocks?
Have you heard about how the US Dollar affects your equity trades? Do you know how to protect yourself? You will after you've read this article.
A powerful trend emerged over the last few years -
* When the US Dollar Index goes up, the stock market goes down.
* When the US Dollar Index goes down, the stock market goes up.
What's Happening?
Stocks are an asset - like any form of property.
* When the value of the US Dollar goes down, it takes more dollars to buy the same asset - stock prices rise.
* When the value of the US Dollar goes up, it takes fewer dollars to buy the same asset - stock prices fall.
Other assets work the same way. Commodities also rise and fall in the opposite direction from the US Dollar. Even collectibles like art and antiques can work that way too.
This trend hasn't always been with us. What's new is the speed the US Dollar changes value now. The Dollar has been bouncing up and down very fast. Currency rates usually change slowly. When big currency changes happen fast - in weeks instead of months or years - stocks are revalued just as fast.
* US economic uncertainties drive fast changes in US Dollar value.
* European and Asian economic uncertainties also drive fast changes in the value of the US Dollar relative to European and Asian currencies.
US government policies are pushing the US Dollar down, despite short-term bumps -
* Near-zero Federal Funds Rate.
* "Quantitative easing."
* The Federal Reserve Bank buying US Treasury debt with printed money.
* Federal stimulus spending.
* Rising Federal deficits.
The long-term trend of the US Dollar will stay down while these policies are in force.
How to Keep Your Equity Trades Safe
The basic problem is the uncertain value of the US Dollar.
So the basic solution is to diversify away from the US Dollar.
The two chief ways to cut your US Dollar risk and make safe money are -
Buy foreign assets.
Buy physical assets.
Foreign Assets
An equity trade done in a stronger currency than the US Dollar will keep you safe. For example -
* The Australian Dollar rose about 25% against the US Dollar in the last six months of 2010.
* So if you owned a share of Australian stock during those six months, the price could have gone down 25% in Australian Dollars without costing you anything in US Dollars.
* Most big US brokers now do equity trades on foreign exchanges.
Many big US companies make a lot of their money overseas. That protects them - and their shareholders - against a weak US Dollar.
* The average S&P 500 company earns 44% of its revenue overseas.
* Some examples - Intel 79%, Exxon Mobil 69%, McDonald's 65.5%, Proctor & Gamble 57%.
You can also just buy foreign currencies to balance your equity trades. There are several ways to do it -
* Buy FDIC-insured foreign-currency CDs from some US banks. Everbank does this.
* Buy currency ETFs. There are ETFS for the Australian and Canadian Dollars, the Euro, the British Pound Sterling, the Swiss Franc, the Swedish Krona, the Japanese Yen, and the Mexican Peso.
* Buy options or futures contracts on any foreign currency.
* Buy actual foreign currency through a foreign exchange dealer.
Physical Assets
Physical assets - things you can touch and that people use - keep their value. If the US Dollar goes down, physical assets will be worth more dollars. You can use lower-risk physical assets such as commodities to balance your higher-risk equity trades. Commodities include -
* Metals - gold, silver, platinum.
* Energies - oil, gas, ethanol.
* Grains - wheat, corn, oats, soybeans.
* Meats - cattle, hogs, pork bellies.
* "Softs" - cotton, orange juice, lumber.
There are several ways to buy commodities -
* Buy commodity ETFs. There are many such ETFs.
* Buy stock in commodity producers like oil drillers or gold miners.
* Buy stock in companies selling goods and services used by commodity producers.
* Equipment to operate mines and wells - drill rigs, tunneling equipment.
* Farm supplies - seed, fertilizer, insecticide.
* Commodity transport - tankers, pipelines, trains.
* Commodity storage - tanks, silos.
* Commodity trading services - commodity exchanges and information services.
The Big Question: What should you buy and when? How do you balance profit and safety to make safe money?
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Equity Trades - Is the US Dollar Hurting Your Stocks?
Have you heard about how the US Dollar affects your equity trades? Do you know how to protect yourself? You will after you've read this article.
A powerful trend emerged over the last few years -
* When the US Dollar Index goes up, the stock market goes down.
* When the US Dollar Index goes down, the stock market goes up.
What's Happening?
Stocks are an asset - like any form of property.
* When the value of the US Dollar goes down, it takes more dollars to buy the same asset - stock prices rise.
* When the value of the US Dollar goes up, it takes fewer dollars to buy the same asset - stock prices fall.
Other assets work the same way. Commodities also rise and fall in the opposite direction from the US Dollar. Even collectibles like art and antiques can work that way too.
This trend hasn't always been with us. What's new is the speed the US Dollar changes value now. The Dollar has been bouncing up and down very fast. Currency rates usually change slowly. When big currency changes happen fast - in weeks instead of months or years - stocks are revalued just as fast.
* US economic uncertainties drive fast changes in US Dollar value.
* European and Asian economic uncertainties also drive fast changes in the value of the US Dollar relative to European and Asian currencies.
US government policies are pushing the US Dollar down, despite short-term bumps -
* Near-zero Federal Funds Rate.
* "Quantitative easing."
* The Federal Reserve Bank buying US Treasury debt with printed money.
* Federal stimulus spending.
* Rising Federal deficits.
The long-term trend of the US Dollar will stay down while these policies are in force.
How to Keep Your Equity Trades Safe
The basic problem is the uncertain value of the US Dollar.
So the basic solution is to diversify away from the US Dollar.
The two chief ways to cut your US Dollar risk and make safe money are -
Buy foreign assets.
Buy physical assets.
Foreign Assets
An equity trade done in a stronger currency than the US Dollar will keep you safe. For example -
* The Australian Dollar rose about 25% against the US Dollar in the last six months of 2010.
* So if you owned a share of Australian stock during those six months, the price could have gone down 25% in Australian Dollars without costing you anything in US Dollars.
* Most big US brokers now do equity trades on foreign exchanges.
Many big US companies make a lot of their money overseas. That protects them - and their shareholders - against a weak US Dollar.
* The average S&P 500 company earns 44% of its revenue overseas.
* Some examples - Intel 79%, Exxon Mobil 69%, McDonald's 65.5%, Proctor & Gamble 57%.
You can also just buy foreign currencies to balance your equity trades. There are several ways to do it -
* Buy FDIC-insured foreign-currency CDs from some US banks. Everbank does this.
* Buy currency ETFs. There are ETFS for the Australian and Canadian Dollars, the Euro, the British Pound Sterling, the Swiss Franc, the Swedish Krona, the Japanese Yen, and the Mexican Peso.
* Buy options or futures contracts on any foreign currency.
* Buy actual foreign currency through a foreign exchange dealer.
Physical Assets
Physical assets - things you can touch and that people use - keep their value. If the US Dollar goes down, physical assets will be worth more dollars. You can use lower-risk physical assets such as commodities to balance your higher-risk equity trades. Commodities include -
* Metals - gold, silver, platinum.
* Energies - oil, gas, ethanol.
* Grains - wheat, corn, oats, soybeans.
* Meats - cattle, hogs, pork bellies.
* "Softs" - cotton, orange juice, lumber.
There are several ways to buy commodities -
* Buy commodity ETFs. There are many such ETFs.
* Buy stock in commodity producers like oil drillers or gold miners.
* Buy stock in companies selling goods and services used by commodity producers.
* Equipment to operate mines and wells - drill rigs, tunneling equipment.
* Farm supplies - seed, fertilizer, insecticide.
* Commodity transport - tankers, pipelines, trains.
* Commodity storage - tanks, silos.
* Commodity trading services - commodity exchanges and information services.
The Big Question: What should you buy and when? How do you balance profit and safety to make safe money?
This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.
Equity Trades - Is the US Dollar Hurting Your Stocks?
Have you heard about how the US Dollar affects your equity trades? Do you know how to protect yourself? You will after you've read this article.
A powerful trend emerged over the last few years -
* When the US Dollar Index goes up, the stock market goes down.
* When the US Dollar Index goes down, the stock market goes up.
What's Happening?
Stocks are an asset - like any form of property.
* When the value of the US Dollar goes down, it takes more dollars to buy the same asset - stock prices rise.
* When the value of the US Dollar goes up, it takes fewer dollars to buy the same asset - stock prices fall.
Other assets work the same way. Commodities also rise and fall in the opposite direction from the US Dollar. Even collectibles like art and antiques can work that way too.
This trend hasn't always been with us. What's new is the speed the US Dollar changes value now. The Dollar has been bouncing up and down very fast. Currency rates usually change slowly. When big currency changes happen fast - in weeks instead of months or years - stocks are revalued just as fast.
* US economic uncertainties drive fast changes in US Dollar value.
* European and Asian economic uncertainties also drive fast changes in the value of the US Dollar relative to European and Asian currencies.
US government policies are pushing the US Dollar down, despite short-term bumps -
* Near-zero Federal Funds Rate.
* "Quantitative easing."
* The Federal Reserve Bank buying US Treasury debt with printed money.
* Federal stimulus spending.
* Rising Federal deficits.
The long-term trend of the US Dollar will stay down while these policies are in force.
How to Keep Your Equity Trades Safe
The basic problem is the uncertain value of the US Dollar.
So the basic solution is to diversify away from the US Dollar.
The two chief ways to cut your US Dollar risk and make safe money are -
Buy foreign assets.
Buy physical assets.
Foreign Assets
An equity trade done in a stronger currency than the US Dollar will keep you safe. For example -
* The Australian Dollar rose about 25% against the US Dollar in the last six months of 2010.
* So if you owned a share of Australian stock during those six months, the price could have gone down 25% in Australian Dollars without costing you anything in US Dollars.
* Most big US brokers now do equity trades on foreign exchanges.
Many big US companies make a lot of their money overseas. That protects them - and their shareholders - against a weak US Dollar.
* The average S&P 500 company earns 44% of its revenue overseas.
* Some examples - Intel 79%, Exxon Mobil 69%, McDonald's 65.5%, Proctor & Gamble 57%.
You can also just buy foreign currencies to balance your equity trades. There are several ways to do it -
* Buy FDIC-insured foreign-currency CDs from some US banks. Everbank does this.
* Buy currency ETFs. There are ETFS for the Australian and Canadian Dollars, the Euro, the British Pound Sterling, the Swiss Franc, the Swedish Krona, the Japanese Yen, and the Mexican Peso.
* Buy options or futures contracts on any foreign currency.
* Buy actual foreign currency through a foreign exchange dealer.
Physical Assets
Physical assets - things you can touch and that people use - keep their value. If the US Dollar goes down, physical assets will be worth more dollars. You can use lower-risk physical assets such as commodities to balance your higher-risk equity trades. Commodities include -
* Metals - gold, silver, platinum.
* Energies - oil, gas, ethanol.
* Grains - wheat, corn, oats, soybeans.
* Meats - cattle, hogs, pork bellies.
* "Softs" - cotton, orange juice, lumber.
There are several ways to buy commodities -
* Buy commodity ETFs. There are many such ETFs.
* Buy stock in commodity producers like oil drillers or gold miners.
* Buy stock in companies selling goods and services used by commodity producers.
* Equipment to operate mines and wells - drill rigs, tunneling equipment.
* Farm supplies - seed, fertilizer, insecticide.
* Commodity transport - tankers, pipelines, trains.
* Commodity storage - tanks, silos.
* Commodity trading services - commodity exchanges and information services.
The Big Question: What should you buy and when? How do you balance profit and safety to make safe money?
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
How to Trade Penny Stocks Using Trends and Sectors
Learning how to trade penny stocks for those wishing to use a momentum or swing trading methodology requires diligence and an ever watchful eye on the fickle wants and needs of the market. What may be a blazing hot sector today could be stagnant tomorrow. Investors and traders that execute momentum and swing trades realize that short term gains numbered in days or at the most, a few weeks is desirable.
Penny stocks in the energy sectors and gold sectors are ideal candidates for utilizing this methodology of trading. Spikes in the cost per barrel of oil caused by a geo-political event can result in oil stocks rising as investors flock to these stocks to ride the wave of profitability as oil prices surge. The same goes for gold stocks. As the price of gold per ounce increases because of a dip in the economy or an event rocks the financial world, investors buy into gold stocks to ride the momentum for profit.
During certain times of the year, some stocks are ideal for trading with trends and sectors. Companies that provide goods and services that provide relief during catastrophic events such as hurricanes are excellent choices during the hurricane season that plagues the southeastern United States during the fall months of the year.
Investors and traders that keep their eyes on current trends realize that there is most likely a company trading on either the OTCBB or Pink Sheet stock exchanges that has a product that has the potential to meet the demand. One area that always evokes strong opinions is the stem cell industry. Whenever legislation is before the houses of Congress concerning stem cells, stocks that are associated with stem cell research always surge in anticipation of legislation going forward.
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