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Big markets move approaching, Update on US & UK Outlook, Barrat Homes developments

BIG MOVE ON THE MARKETS APPROACHING, An update on the outlook for the UK and US, Still too frightened to short Barratt Developments?

Weekly review 25 April 2008

Banks and housebuilders spiral down, but the FTSE index is kept up by oil.

Weekly Report 20 March 2008 - A contrarian market view

It has been a week with profits to be made for both day traders and trend watchers with volatility in stock, currency and commodity markets. You would have thought that the financial world was about to end judging by the press comment in the last few days, so is it time for a contrarian call to buy equities. We think it just might be, so let's take a longer term view for a change.

Weekly Report 7 March 2008 - US incompetence masks shrewd buying, FKI worth a look, Newmont Mining a potential surprise sell

For a change we are not going to talk about the financials which have had their fair share of headlines in recent weeks. We will instead look at the action in the wider markets, and specifically the US, which still has the ability to give the world a cold when it sneezes, despite it seeming to have a permanent infection. Just about everything that epitomizes poor management could be fitted into the news this week, with ‘Helicopter’ Ben Bernanke again showing his colours by muttering on about how the weak dollar would help the US trade deficit. His view of the housing market and the outlook for smaller banks apparently gives him every justification for letting interest rates slip away to ridiculous levels, and you only have to look at what happened to Japan in the 1990s to see that if there is a credit crisis and money is not available, then it doesn’t matter what the interest rate is if borrowers can’t pay it back.

Do stockmarkets act in a random manner?

Whatever sphere of investment is involved, whether it is stockmarket trading, CFDs, forex, bonds or commodities, the question of whether or not markets are random has intrigued some analysts for many years.

How does point and figure analysis work?

The usual way to view chare price charts on a daily basis is to use a visual representation of the open, high, low, close and volume. This can take the form of a bar or candlestick chart, and there are variations such as area or line charts.