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Livermore Master	14-Jan-2007 21:53 Livermore About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	There seems to be strong economic data recently from US. A healthy rise in exports, retails sales topped forecast, healthy job creation, Institute and Supply Management indexes for both manufacturing and services has come in above expectations, have all added positive sentiments to US market. Oil price has also come down. Sentiments might be positive this coming week.......
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elfinchilde Elite	14-Jan-2007 14:59 elfinchilde About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	hm. concur, billywows. looking to lock in all positions by end jan actually; TA, FA or whatever holdings. not unless it happens to be an exceptional counter...
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billywows Elite	13-Jan-2007 22:55 billywows About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	US market will be closed for holiday on Monday. With just 4 trading days next week, watch it chiong again with earnings from the heavy-weights and economic data. But am wary that steam is running out soon. I guess a good correction by mid-February ..... --------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT U.S. stocks seen rising next week! Apple, IBM earnings could fuel tech rally; commodities to remain in focus By Carla Mozee, MarketWatch Last Update: 7:00 AM ET Jan 13, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks are expected to rise next week, as quarterly reports from Apple Inc. and International Business Machines could help fuel the fever for technology stocks. The holiday-shortened week will also be packed with data on inflation, housing and manufacturing. "What we're likely to see are a continued string of positive earnings surprises and stronger-than-expected economic news," said Kenneth Tower, chief market strategist at CyberTrader. "That should be supportive of higher stock prices." The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record levels on Thursday and Friday. The Nasdaq Composite Index also hit its highest level in six years closing above 2.5k mark. Investors spent much of the week rotating funds out of commodity-sensitive sectors that have been hit by the sharp decline in energy and metals prices since the start of the year. Crude-oil prices have dropped 13% since the start of the year. The slide has reportedly prompted ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to consider an emergency meeting to discuss ways to support prices. Most of the money seemed to make its way toward the technology sector, a trend that may continue next week if results from Apple IBM and Intel Corp. exceed expectations. The fourth-quarter earnings season, which kicked off Tuesday, will ramp up next week. Financial sector heavyweights J.P. Morgan, Citigroup Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., and Washington Mutual Inc. are due to report. John Caldwell, investment strategist at McDonald Financial group, said that at this point, earnings news overall appears to be "pretty good." But he said he's somewhat cautious about how investors will react to the deceleration in the rate of earnings growth from prior earnings seasons. The fourth-quarter earnings growth rate stood at 9.7% as of late last week, according to data from Thomson Financial. That's the first single-digit rise in earnings in 13 quarters, according to CSFB data. "With the run-up that we've seen in stocks, I think investor psychology could be a little fragile as these earlier reports start to hit the market," said Caldwell. Traders will have just four days to work through a stack of economic reports. Equity markets will be closed on Monday for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Economic Data Next Week The producer price and consumer prices reports for December are due from the Labor Department on Wednesday and Thursday. Economists polled by MarketWatch expect the producer price index to fall to 0.7%, after a surprise 2% in November. Excluding food and energy prices, the core PPI is expected to edge up 0.1%, after a 1.3% reading a month ago. Consumer prices, meanwhile, are expected to tick up 0.5% compared with November when prices were flat. Expectations the Federal Reserve may cut rates soon fell this week after some stronger-than-expected data. July fed funds futures implied a 26% chance that the bank will lower its target for overnight rates to 5% from 5.25% by its meeting in late June, following upbeat retail sales data Friday. Investors will listen for any insight on the direction of interest rates on Thursday, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Senate's budget committee about long-term fiscal challenges facing the U.S. The Fed's view of economic conditions around the country will also come in the form of its Beige Book report, due Wednesday. -----------------
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elfinchilde Elite	13-Jan-2007 12:11 elfinchilde About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	hey cashiertan...actually, what i'm sensing is akin to your intuition...it's as though the market is currently dancing on the fragile knife edge of sentiment, and the euphoria somehow seems unreal. and yea, agree TA of not much relation to the actual market now; if you've being screening stocks (just did a batch yesterday), what i found was that lead indicators are not accurate for a lot of counters; am depending on the lag indicators and going by instinct mainly. eg LumChang--its lead indicators are all reading down, but sentiment dictates it'll move up next week.
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cashiertan Elite	13-Jan-2007 02:46 cashiertan About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	got a feeling we are in the last rally. just a feeling not based on TA. at current stage, quite useless to use TA...
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elfinchilde Elite	12-Jan-2007 23:51 elfinchilde About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	Nooooooooo.......meh. c'mon Dow....be good...meh. or it's gonna be one sleepy sad elf here. meh. meeehhhhhhhh. sighhhhh.. have been screening the pennies just for fun; just to see how accurate TA can be on them. haha. ok nites billywows and maxsyn and all the dowsters here. :)
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billywows Elite	12-Jan-2007 23:36 billywows About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	Ahhh .... Dow down 13 points and Nasdaq up 1 point now.
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billywows Elite	12-Jan-2007 23:26 billywows About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	MIXED ... Dow down 1 point and Nasdaq up 3 points now. --------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT U.S. stocks open mixed as investors weigh AMD warning Strong retail sales might keep Fed from cutting rates as early as hoped By Nick Godt & Leslie Wines, MarketWatch Last Update: 10:08 AM ET Jan 12, 2007 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - U.S. stocks opened mixed on Friday, backing off a prior-day rally that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record, after a profit-warning from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. cast a shadow on the technology sector's recent leadership. In addition, stronger-than-expected December retail sales were being weighed by bulls and bears. On the one hand, it might hint to resilient consumption and economy, and on the other, it might prevent the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates as early as some hoped to stave off a slowdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 7 points at 12,508, weighed by the likes of Intel Corp. The S&P 500 was up almost 2 points to 1,425. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, meanwhile, gained 5 points to 2,490. Exxon Mobil Corp., however, provided support as crude oil prices gained 23 cents to $52.11 a barrel, after tumbling all week. Since the start of the new year, investors haved moved money out of a fast-falling energy sector and into tech shares. But as the fourth-quarter earnings season unfolds, the market will be on the lookout for profit forecasts. Shares of AMD , which produces semiconductors, dipped 10%. The company warned Thursday after the close that significantly lower microprocessor average selling prices have hurt fourth-quarter operating income, offsetting a "significant" increase in unit sales. Analysts from Citigroup, Prudential, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley all slapped downgrades on AMD. Semiconductors, are found in many technology products, and are therefore bellwethers for the tech sector as a whole. In spite of AMD's warning, other tech shares continued to advance, such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. on the Dow and internet stocks such as Google Inc.and Amazon.com Inc. on the Nasdaq. "The market today will be driven by a combination of macro and micro factors," said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak. "The micro, company-specific factor is the AMD warning, while the macro, economic factor is the retail sales report, which came in stronger than expected," he said. "That caused the bond market to sell off, which could be a headwind [for the stock market] today." The Commerce Department reported that retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.9% in December, the best gain in five months. The consensus forecast of Wall Street economists was for retail sales to rise 0.7%. The dollar rose to a fresh 13-month high against the yen and seven-week high versus the euro early Friday. A strong dollar, however, failed to pressure gold, which rose $4.60 to 618.60. On the broad market for equities, trading volume was 213 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange and 342 million on the Nasdaq. Advancing issues topped decliners by a margin of 9 to 5 on the NYSE and 3 to 2 on the Nasdaq. -------------- NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - U.S. stocks opened mixed on Friday, backing off a prior-day rally that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record, after a profit-warning from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. cast a shadow on the technology sector's recent leadership. In addition, stronger-than-expected December retail sales were being weighed by bulls and bears. On the one hand, it might hint to resilient consumption and economy, and on the other, it might prevent the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates as early as some hoped to stave off a slowdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 7 points at 12,508, weighed by the likes of Intel Corp. The S&P 500 was up almost 2 points to 1,425. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, meanwhile, gained 5 points to 2,490. Exxon Mobil Corp., however, provided support as crude oil prices gained 23 cents to $52.11 a barrel, after tumbling all week. Since the start of the new year, investors haved moved money out of a fast-falling energy sector and into tech shares. But as the fourth-quarter earnings season unfolds, the market will be on the lookout for profit forecasts. Shares of AMD , which produces semiconductors, dipped 10%. The company warned Thursday after the close that significantly lower microprocessor average selling prices have hurt fourth-quarter operating income, offsetting a "significant" increase in unit sales. Analysts from Citigroup, Prudential, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley all slapped downgrades on AMD. Semiconductors, are found in many technology products, and are therefore bellwethers for the tech sector as a whole. In spite of AMD's warning, other tech shares continued to advance, such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. on the Dow and internet stocks such as Google Inc.and Amazon.com Inc. on the Nasdaq. "The market today will be driven by a combination of macro and micro factors," said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak. "The micro, company-specific factor is the AMD warning, while the macro, economic factor is the retail sales report, which came in stronger than expected," he said. "That caused the bond market to sell off, which could be a headwind [for the stock market] today." The Commerce Department reported that retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.9% in December, the best gain in five months. The consensus forecast of Wall Street economists was for retail sales to rise 0.7%. The dollar rose to a fresh 13-month high against the yen and seven-week high versus the euro early Friday. A strong dollar, however, failed to pressure gold, which rose $4.60 to 618.60. On the broad market for equities, trading volume was 213 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange and 342 million on the Nasdaq. Advancing issues topped decliners by a margin of 9 to 5 on the NYSE and 3 to 2 on the Nasdaq. --------------
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billywows Elite	12-Jan-2007 22:43 billywows About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	MIXED now .... December retail sales not boosting US market due to AMD! Dow down 5 points and Nasdaq up 1 point now ...
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billywows Elite	12-Jan-2007 22:34 billywows About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	Brrrr... ing! US market opened FLAT. Dow up 3 points and Nasdaq up 2 points now ...
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maxsyn Veteran	12-Jan-2007 22:19 maxsyn About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	U.S. stock futures were little moved on Friday, while shares of Advanced Micro Devices looked set to tumble after the Intel rival warned fourth-quarter profit and sales wouldn't grow as fast as analysts had predicted.
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billywows Elite	12-Jan-2007 21:37 billywows About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	You are welcome, Elf! US December retail sales data just out!!! Another reason (not excuse) for a RALLY tonite in US!!! ------------- U.S. Dec. import prices rise 1.1% vs. 0.8% expected By Robert Schroeder Last Update: 8:30 AM ET Jan 12, 2007 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Prices of goods imported into the United States climbed by 1.1% in December, led by big increases in the prices of imported petroleum and natural gas. The December data from the Labor Department follows a revised 0.5% gain in November and suggests some inflationary pressure from abroad. Imported petroleum prices rose by 4.8%, their biggest increase in seven months. Imported natural gas prices climbed by 10.1% in December, following a gain of 43.2% in November. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch were expecting import prices to climb by 0.8% in December. Year-over-year, import prices have climbed 2.5%. ---------------------
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elfinchilde Elite	12-Jan-2007 21:20 elfinchilde About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	ok billywows, will be counting on your reporting to set the tone for next week. thanks ya :) keke. man i'm so sleepy...
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billywows Elite	12-Jan-2007 21:15 billywows About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	Hahaa!! Looks like you rode your iGallop last nite below when you posted, iPunter?! US economic data tonite: 2130hrs: Export prices ex. ag. 2130hrs: Import prices ex. oil 2130hrs: Retail sales 2130hrs: Retail sales ex. autos 2300hrs: Business inventories 0300hrs: Treasury budget ---------------- INDICATIONS U.S. stock futures steady before retail figures AMD shares may fall after profit warning By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch Last Update: 5:48 AM ET Jan 12, 2007 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures were little moved on Friday ahead of the release of figures on December retail sales, while shares of Advanced Micro Devices looked set to tumble after the Intel rival warned fourth-quarter profit and sales wouldn't grow as fast as analysts had predicted. S&P 500 futures edged down 0.8 of a point at 1,430.10 and Nasdaq 100 futures eased 0.25 points at 1849.50. Dow industrial futures slipped 2 points. On Thursday, the Dow industrials hit a record high, and the Nasdaq Composite rose to a six-year high, as investors continued to move out of the energy sector and into the technology sector. Intel, HP and Microsoft were among the stocks that propelled the Dow to a new high-level mark. But Advanced Micro Devices is expected to drop on Friday after its profit warning. Analysts have said that rival Intel has won back market share with new products and aggressive price competition. AMD shares tumbled 6% in Frankfurt, while Intel's were little moved. Also in focus on Friday will be data on December's retail sales (out 2130hrs S'pore time), which probably rose 0.7%, or 0.5% when excluding auto sales. Also to be released will be figures on import prices in December and business inventories in November. Boston Fed President Cathy Minehan, who's about to become a voting member of the FOMC, is due to speak on the economic outlook. The euro edged up on the dollar, while the greenback inched higher on the Japanese yen. Crude oil futures saw a rebound in early morning action, with February-dated contract up 89 cents at $52.77 a barrel. Even with Friday's rise, crude is still down about 14% since the start of the year. --------------- LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures were little moved on Friday ahead of the release of figures on December retail sales, while shares of Advanced Micro Devices looked set to tumble after the Intel rival warned fourth-quarter profit and sales wouldn't grow as fast as analysts had predicted. S&P 500 futures edged down 0.8 of a point at 1,430.10 and Nasdaq 100 futures eased 0.25 points at 1849.50. Dow industrial futures slipped 2 points. On Thursday, the Dow industrials hit a record high, and the Nasdaq Composite rose to a six-year high, as investors continued to move out of the energy sector and into the technology sector. Intel, HP and Microsoft were among the stocks that propelled the Dow to a new high-level mark. But Advanced Micro Devices is expected to drop on Friday after its profit warning. Analysts have said that rival Intel has won back market share with new products and aggressive price competition. AMD shares tumbled 6% in Frankfurt, while Intel's were little moved. Also in focus on Friday will be data on December's retail sales (out 2130hrs S'pore time), which probably rose 0.7%, or 0.5% when excluding auto sales. Also to be released will be figures on import prices in December and business inventories in November. Boston Fed President Cathy Minehan, who's about to become a voting member of the FOMC, is due to speak on the economic outlook. The euro edged up on the dollar, while the greenback inched higher on the Japanese yen. Crude oil futures saw a rebound in early morning action, with February-dated contract up 89 cents at $52.77 a barrel. Even with Friday's rise, crude is still down about 14% since the start of the year. ---------------
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iPunter Supreme	12-Jan-2007 04:57 iPunter About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	Hurray!... looks like we can do the Rodeo wih the Dancing Bull! ... :)
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hybridvestor Member	12-Jan-2007 01:55 hybridvestor About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	If the US Market rise with good strength, regional bourses will likely follow its step, and STI being influenced by the regional markets will likely also move in tandem accordingly .... :D .
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hohokit Veteran	12-Jan-2007 01:26 hohokit About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	Dow up 97pts.
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brandonharrist Member	12-Jan-2007 01:01 brandonharrist About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	Cautious. STI and Dow has not really moved in tandem last few sessions.
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hohokit Veteran	12-Jan-2007 00:20 hohokit About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	UP UP ALL THE WAY LIKE SUPERMAN
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billywows Elite	11-Jan-2007 23:47 billywows About Contact Quote this Post!
x 0 x 0 Alert Admin	Dow up 65 points and Nasdaq up 17 points now ...
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