By Vadim Pokhlebkin
1/25/2012 5:45:00 PM
On January 25, Ben Bernanke spoke no surprises: The Fed's interest rate policy will be unchanged for another two years. Question: What does this mean for the stock market through 2014? Let me show you how quickly you can get lost if you try to answer this question using "fundamental" analysis.
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Bob Prechter, djia, Elliott wave, Interest Rates, market forecasts, prechter, S&P 500, technical analysis, technical indicators, unemployment
Category: Stocks
Will The Fed's "Operation Twist" Turn The Economy Around?
Why is Ben Bernanke's goal lower interest rates when EWI's Short Term Update's chart shows that 10-year bond yields are already at a five-decade low?
By Nico Isaac
9/20/2011 3:30:00 PM
Get out your dancing shoes, cuz this Wednesday (September 21) the Federal Reserve Bank is widely expected to "do the twist" -- "Operation Twist,"that is. The strategy (named for the Chubby Checker tune), was first introduced in the 1960s as a tried -- and failed -- method of using monetary policy to turn (or twist) the yield curve in a favorable, i.e. economic growth-inducing, direction.
Filed Under: Bernanke, central banks, credit crisis, debt, Elliott wave, Robert Prechter, Short Term Update, Treasury bonds, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), U.S. Treasuries
Category: U.S. Economy
By Nico Isaac
8/29/2011 5:15:00 PM
On Monday August 29, much of the Big Apple (i.e., New York City) breathed a huge sight of relief. And not just because flood-bringing tropical storm Irene failed to deliver the "nightmare hurricane" scenario feared by the entire eastern seaboard. The opening to a brand new week also saw the violent stock market storm that has blown through Wall Street since early July taper off into clear skies.
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Elliott wave, fundamental analysis, stock indexes, trendlines, Wall Street
Category: Stocks
By Nathaniel Williams
8/29/2011 4:45:00 AM
Aug. 26 brought another round of disappointing news for real estate, which has prompted some to suggest it's time the Fed intervened. But what's most ironic is that the Fed denied the housing bubble's existence in the first place...
Filed Under: Bernanke, housing prices, Short Term Update, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Robert Folsom
7/19/2011 2:00:00 PM
The Fed's symbolic "helicopter drop" has been in flight since 2007. But now the so-called "drop" is over. The printing presses have gone silent. It's time to look at what's happening right now -- and what will follow soon...
Filed Under: Robert Prechter, Elliott wave, Bernanke
Category: Stocks
By Robert Folsom
7/14/2011 5:15:00 PM
Most investors who read one or two of those individual news accounts above will not see the folly. They take it at face value...
Filed Under: Robert Prechter, Elliott wave, Bernanke
Category: Stocks