There are also a lot of very nervous equity investors whose water tells them an even bigger stock correction is coming.
Is a substantial stock market correction looming?
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Fueling the bond frenzy is not just the determination to find a safe haven that at least pays something more than the 0% of money markets, but the popular opinion that bonds will continue to rally as a safe haven as long as the economy appears to be softening, and as long as the stock market correction continues.
All we got out of this market and greenback jawboning was a massive stock-market correction.
This morning, he raised his rating on the shares to Overweight from Neutral, asserting that a recent correction in the stock price following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan offers a buying opportunity.
The point is that even when the market is showing good strength it is never good to chase a stock or ETF and the correction I expect should provide additional opportunities to buy closer to support.
There is a tendency for investors to fear that a correction is imminent when stock market averages are hitting new highs.
However, in the summer of 1998 the stock market was finally experiencing a correction, down more than 17%, the exuberance being cooled off.
The reality is, a five or ten percent correction for an individual stock, or the broader market, is as normal as the changing seasons.
Part of a correction that took the stock lower for five out of six trading days, the pullback resulted in a gain of more than 5% over the next five days.
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However, some analysts have warned that a stock market bubble is being created and last week former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned that the Chinese stock market could undergo a dramatic correction.
In this case, the stalled economic recovery got back on track, the euro-zone debt crisis faded into the background again, the stock market recovered from its summer correction, and although still expected, inflation had not shown up.
The very next month the stock market rolled over into a correction, and a month after that the surprising negative economic reports began to pile in for May and June, and now into July, including dismal monthly employment reports, plunges in home sales, unexpected declines in retail sales, auto sales, manufacturing, and consumer sentiment.
In January, global stock markets declined 10% in a correction based logically on concerns about a potential government debt crisis in Greece.
He said the stock indexes could see further gains before a correction comes in.
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The key question now is whether we will see a brief pullback in the stock market, or whether a more prolonged correction is likely.
This created oversold conditions in the stock that rivaled even those from the August correction that sent many stocks tumbling into bear market territory.
But of course for that positive for gold to be a factor, that it tends to move opposite to the stock market in its long-term moves, the stock market would have to go into another correction, extending its secular bear market.
Overbought conditions and apparent reversals in major stock indices suggest the start of a long-overdue correction.
Gold mining stocks may be a different story, since they tend to move with the rest of the stock market, which is overbought and probably due for a correction.
And global stock markets are in a frothy state and seem due for a correction.
Yet, the stock market chooses now as the time to roll over into a potential correction?
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The U.S. stock market rally has made a top and will now have a meaningful correction.
Most stock market strategists are calling the stock market decline off the April 26th highs as a typical 10% correction in a bull market that began in March 2009.
Buoyed by a strong housing sector, and a solid performance from sectors like healthcare and financials, stock market bulls seem to have left behind those speaking of a coming correction as investors look for equities to go even higher.
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