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Wall Street strategists are warning that U.S. stocks are on the brink of a major collapse after the market has entered the “death zone.” “Death zone” is a term used in mountain climbing to describe an altitude that is so high that climbers are unable to get enough oxygen. This week, the Chief U.S. Equity Strategist at Morgan Stanley, Michael Wilson, sent a note to investors relating the state of the market to the “death zone” and warning that the S&P 500, which is up 6 percent since the start of 2023, could fall as many as 3,000 points in...

The Next Two Months: Best Case, Medium Case, Worst Case Mac Slavo April 29th, 2011 David Galland put together an analysis worthy of your time where he discusses various viable scenarios we may see play out with the US dollar, stocks, commodities, and precious metals in coming months: …given the current ill health of the dollar, I remain convinced that the Fed will pause in its blunt-force monetization, come June. And that is likely to provide a shot in the arm for the dollar – versus the equivalent of a shot in the head to the dollar, should they reverse...

Well, what if I gave you the ability to peer into the future, to know — with certainty — how some of these unknowable variables would change over the next 5 years? What if I guaranteed you that the following predictions about Newmont — Courtesy of my time machine, I can tell you exactly what will happen: 1. The price of gold rises almost 150% 2. Newmont’s earnings more than quadruple 3. Newmont’s dvidend payout rises 50% 4. Newmont’s share count rises less than 10% NEM goes down. The time period to which I refer is January 2006 to January...

Does the Chinese stock market presage the U.S. market's direction? If so, the U.S. market is set for a fall. The economies of China and the U.S. are in effect Siamese Twins, joined at the hip. By pegging their currency to the U.S. dollar, the Chinese central government has tethered its economy to both U.S. policy and the U.S. economy. Since the U.S. economy is still considerably larger than China's, and the yuan/renminbi is pegged to the dollar (and not vice versa), then we might expect China's stock market to follow the American market's lead. As expected, the two markets...

Search - Finance Home - Yahoo! - Help Welcome, vls8909  [Sign Out] Money Manager - My Yahoo! View - Customize Financial News Enter symbol(s)   Symbol Lookup     ReutersU.S. stocks rally after data lifts recovery hopesThursday September 18, 3:10 pm ETBy Vivian Chu (Updates to late afternoon) NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Stocks rallied in late Thursday afternoon trading after a batch of positive economic data bolstered investor optimism that the economic recovery is picking up speed and will help fatten corporate profits. ADVERTISEMENT At midday on Thursday, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said its measure of factory conditions in the highly...