Sy Harding:   After six straight down weeks the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) is down only 6% from its April peak.  That’s not near enough to factor all the negatives into stock prices. Those negatives include the rapidly slowing U.S. economy, sharply rising global inflation, plunging global markets as Read more…

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Claus Vogt:  Four weeks ago I discussed the quickly deteriorating macroeconomic picture, both in the U.S. and internationally. Since then the outlook has corroded more. Read more…

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Martin D. Weiss:  Major stock sectors are now in a race for the bottom.  These are stocks on a rendezvous with their lowest lows reached in the debt crisis of 2008-2009 … sinking back into the danger zone that came with red ink, bankruptcy, and financial ruin for millions of investors. Read more…

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Thomas Carreno:  Today’s (6/1/2011) action in the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) has me thinking the 8.6 year cycle model turning point I have been talking about ad nauseam for months now is starting to take effect Read more…

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Toby Connor:  Yesterday’s massacre was a serious shot over the bow for the stock market. The market is now in extreme jeopardy of having formed a left translated intermediate cycle. Read more…

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Claus Vogt:  The stock market is a leading economic indicator with an impressive track record. And that’s exactly how I am interpreting three recent developments and why I want to warn you about Read more…

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Thomas Carreno:  The action in the stock market indices as of late has been out right boring in my opinion.  Where is the volatility? It is almost non existent.  This market is lately reminding me of Read more…

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Mike Larson:  We’ve hit the debt ceiling. And in early August, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will run out of strings to pull to keep us from defaulting. That’s undermining confidence in our Read more…

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Toby Connor:  On Friday stocks formed the swing we were looking for to mark the half cycle low.  Here is a chart on the S&P 500 large cap index (NYSE:SPY). Read more…

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Thomas Carreno:  The bears seem to have little or no power based on today’s price action in the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY).  The downside volume in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) was horrible Read more…

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“The stock market environment is extremely risky, and Claus Vogt now sees three more signs of an impending bear market.   Interest rates have been rising nearly nonstop since August 2010. Read more…

NYSE:DXD, NYSE:FAS, NYSE:FAZ, SDS, TNA, TZA

Over the weekend, I was going over some of my old posts and realized that most, if not all of my ETF missives to this point have been geared toward investors that probably already have some Read more…

NYSE:DIA, NYSE:DXD, NYSE:FAS, NYSE:FAZ, SPY, TNA, TZA, VXX

The risks of investing in most U.S. stocks have been extremely high for a host of reasons: Read more…

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Thomas Carreno:  In my opinion all the pressure is on the “Bernanke Bulls” for the next 9 trading days as we go into the end of the first quarter.  They are going to have to pull off their usual and Read more…

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Thomas Carreno:  The Broadening wedge formation in the S&P 500 is still filling out its formation and in general I am viewing this as an eventual bearish resolution type pattern with the outside Read more…

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