What if you are buying a short- to intermediate-term bond fund, not the bond itself?
Rather, it would be the intermediate-term rates such as the 10-year Treasury rate that would rise.
However, the expected intermediate-term correction has been taking on an increasingly more serious appearance.
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If these trends continue over the next few weeks, they could have intermediate-term significance.
Will its rally also morph into an intermediate-term move, as has happened with treasury bonds?
We broke some accelerated trend lines and, in weaker sectors, broke intermediate-term support levels.
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As I discuss in more detail below, the intermediate-term analysis remains positive for the stock market.
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The shares are currently in the process of rebounding from the latter of these intermediate-term trendlines.
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The OBV did confirm the late-2010 highs, which is positive for the intermediate-term trend.
This confirmed the negative divergences in the RSI, consistent with the completion of an intermediate-term top.
The US experience demonstrated that bold government action can work, at least in the short- to intermediate-term.
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Another semiconductor chip company that looks quite positive from an intermediate-term perspective is Semtech Corporation ( SMTC).
If I am correct, further commodity price gains may run into resistance in the short to intermediate-term timeframe.
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The consensus of the technical indicators we use in our research triggered an intermediate-term sell signal on October 15.
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However, after a five-month intermediate-term rally to an overbought condition, it is a time to be alert for changes.
This, in our view, would represent an intermediate-term top, with a 10% to 15% correction during the second half.
The consensus of the 35 technical indicators we use in our advisory service remains on the intermediate-term buy signal.
Of course the rally could even continue through the intermediate-term resistance into a sustained summer rally, and even beyond.
This intermediate-term trend line, in conjunction with its 10-week counterpart, has pressured the IGN steadily lower since August 2008.
The following week, AAPL closed back above the quarterly pivot level, suggesting that the intermediate-term uptrend was still intact.
At this point, look for something up around 4.25 short-term and 5.00 intermediate-term.
For gold, he tends to be an intermediate-term trader, holding a position for a week to a couple of months.
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Even if SLV were to correct further, the intermediate-term outlook is quite positive and shows no signs of a top.
So did U.S. and European markets top out mid-February into an intermediate-term correction, or was it just a five-week pullback?
Though long-term Treasuries have historically had low correlation coefficients with large-cap stocks, intermediate-term Treasuries are even less correlated with large-cap stocks.
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Even though the global uncertainty adds another dimension to the recent decline, the intermediate-term outlook for the stock market remains positive.
Osterweis Strategic Income has more credit risk but lower interest-rate risk (due to shorter average duration) than some intermediate-term bond funds.
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Even before the ugly jobs report our technical indicators had already triggered a new intermediate-term buy signal on bonds from oversold levels.
But all of this does not mean that the market has completed a top, as the intermediate-term technical outlook is still positive.
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Do you have ample cash to meet any near- and intermediate-term exigencies?
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