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Capital Market Update; Investment & Finance Thread (Sept. 14 edition)

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In a phrase it looks like everything's beginning to bust loose for stocks, metals, bonds --something here for everyone!

 

Stocks chalked up another distribution day last Friday as the S&P nudges toward the famous 10-week moving aveage that serves as a floor in the good times and a ceiling in the bad.  Traders are also noticing that over the past week or two up volume was slight while down volume was strong.  Like maybe some kind of consensus or something, at least for the short term.  Remember major indexes only got 2 distribution days (downtrends usually want say, 6) plus things are looking more and more like we're finally tearing into our next 'super-cycle' leap (tx Wyatt!). 

Bottom line, stocks are dangerous.  In fact a while back there was a story in the Miami Hearald about a guy that put his life savings in stocks and the next day he was killed by a huge pile of money falling on him.  Dave Berry column...

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Metals dropped the other shoe this past week as Gold'n'Platinum were flirting w/ mult-year lows and silver actually made it to 2010 levels.  Historic prices is one the arguments some traders consider when they act like they're expecting further price drops. 

This is beginning to look like the broader commodity price trend, on this other thread --Oil demand growth slips to 'remarkable' 2˝-year low (tx Chgogal!) we're seeing crude, gas, heating oil prices all in fade mode.

On top of all that, even the bond markets are romping into new territory as T-bills tank and the dollar soars.  (Talk about yer cash hoarding.) 

http://www.roseguerin.com.au/images/wealthcreation_img.jpgfwiw over the past few weeks the Yen, British Pound, Swiss Franc, Mexican Peso have all been falling while the Dollar's been climbing.

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So while everyone's got their own view point, what I'm seeing (mho) is we're into the end of the month/wrapping up the 3rd quarter, war breaking out in Syria-Iraq-Ukraine, and we're on the home stretch of the 2014 elections (maybe even getting some relief from headlines like Plans to Turn ‘Politically Binding’ UN Climate Change Accord Into Federal Law -hat tip to Lurkina.n.Learnin). 

Anyway, other than those things there's really no reason for all these new breakouts.

 

This is the thread where folks swap ideas on savings and investment --here's a list of popular investing links that freepers have posted here and tomorrow morning we'll go on with our--

Open invitation continues always for idea-input for the thread, this being a joint effort works well.   Keywords: financial, WallStreet, stockmarket, economy.