All Entries in the "Economy" Category
The Bear Market and Depression: How Close to the Bottom?
By Elliott Wave International While many people spend time yearning for the financial markets to turn back up, a rare few have looked back in time to compare historical markets with the current situation — and then delivered a clear-eyed view of the future informed by knowledge of the past. One who has is Robert [...]
Prechter on CNBC: Market Pro: Long Bear Market Looming
Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International, tells host Maria Bartiromo why he sees dark days ahead on CNBC’s Closing Bell. Download Your FREE 50-Page Ultimate Technical Analysis Handbook In this free 50-page eBook from Bob Prechter’s Elliott Wave International, you will discover some of the very best technical methods used by the top professional [...]
Steve Hochberg on CNBC: Markets Overbought?
Skeptics are still worried the market has come too far, too fast. EWI’s Chief Market Analyst Steve Hochberg joins CNBC Squawk Box host Joe Kernen on April 15, 2010 to share his view. Get More Market Analysis in Steve Hochberg’s FREE 16-Page Report You’ve bared witness to the Great Asset Mania with signs such as [...]
Prechter on Yahoo! Finance: “Even $1 Trillion Can’t Save the Euro, But Gold is No Safe Haven”
The euro’s recent loss has been the dollar’s gain, which means that it’s not the best time to buy the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, the most popular alternative to currencies, gold, isn’t such a good buy either. Watch the second excerpt from Robert Prechter’s May 20 interview with Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker host Aaron Task to [...]
What Becomes of a Broken Stock Market?
There are two possible Elliott wave paths for stocks from here — but only one likely outcome. By Elliott Wave International You know what a mystery the Dow’s 1,000-point drop on May 6 has been. Wall Street is looking for a smoking gun — a trader’s mistake, a computer glitch — but nothing definite has [...]
What Does NOT Move Markets? Examining 8 Claims of Market Efficiency
By Susan Walker If everyone says that shocks from outside the financial system — so-called exogenous shocks — can affect it for better or worse, they must be right. It just sounds so darned logical, right? Economists believe this trope to be true, mainly because they believe that investors are rational thinkers who re-evaluate their [...]
11 Commonplace Market Views: True or Myth?
By Susan C. Walker “Cash on the sidelines is bullish for stocks.” Have you ever heard some stock market pundit utter these words? Have you ever wondered if the statement were true? Read this item from the latest issue of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, and you’ll wonder no more: Myth — Cash on the sidelines [...]






