June 7, 2011 Analysis from Chris Kimble
Master technical analyst Chris Kimble takes a close look at the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction Index Fund (ITB) and NYSE Composite Index and their simultaneous encounters with resistance. More……
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Charting Down Under: The Australia All Ordinaries Index
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June 7, 2011 updated by request
What would the S&P 500 look like without the Tech Bubble? Perhaps something resembling Australia’s All Ordinaries Index. I’ve included the S&P 500 in the background to support the idea.
There are some who might…
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Weekly Gasoline Update: A Third Week of Price Declines
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June 6, 2011
Here is my weekly gasoline chart update from Department of Energy data with an overlay of West Texas Crude (WTIC). Gasoline at the pump declined for the third consecutive week. Year-to-date, the average price for regular is up 73 cent…
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The S&P 500: Gloomy Monday, Down 1.08%
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June 6, 2011
The S&P 500 opened the week with a dramatic loss of 1.08%, which takes the correction to 5.68% below the interim high of April 29. The index is 92.2% above the March 2009 closing low but 16.9% below the nominal all-time high of Octobe…
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A Look at Treasury Yields Before the Market Opens
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June 3, 2011
Note from dshort: I’ve updated my Treasury yield charts through Friday’s close. The 10-year note yield, now at 2.99%, remains below both its 50- and 200-day moving averages at levels last seen in early December. As the first chart ill…
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Weekend Review: World Markets Fall Further
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June 5, 2011 weekend update
Most of the major world markets in this series lost ground over the past week, with the S&P 500 suffering the largest decline. The Shanghai Composite managed to eke out a fractional gain, which was a welcome change fr…
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The "Real" Mega-Bears
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June 4, 2011 weekend update
It’s time again for the weekend update of our “Real” Mega-Bears, an inflation-adjusted overlay of three secular bear markets. It aligns the current S&P 500 from the top of the Tech Bubble in March 2000, the Dow in of …
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Unemployment and the Market: A 62-Year Perspective
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June 3, 2011 monthly update
A disappointing increase of only 54,000 jobs was accompanied by an unemployment rate for May of 9.1%, up from the previous month’s 9.0%. The briefing.com consensus was for 9.0% and their own estimate was for 9.1%. The…
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Getting Technical: Weekend Update
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June 3, 2011 Analysis from Serge Perreault
Here’s the latest weekend update from Serge Perreault, a Chartered Accountant and market technician located near Montreal, Canada. Serge has been following the U.S. market in a series of weekly charts. …
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The Treasury-Yield Indicator for the S&P 500
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June 3, 2011 Analysis from Chris Kimble
Master technical analyst Chris Kimble sent me his Treasury-Yield “ketch-up” indicator for the S&P 500 performance over the next 90 days. We’ll check back through the summer to see how well this indicator p…
