By Susan C. Walker
9/30/2011 3:30:00 PM
Want to know how the markets are trending? The popularity of the U.S. president can be a useful indicator.
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
Category: Stocks
U.S. Debt Deal: Bullish or Bearish for Stocks?
Mainstream opinions can only play catch up with the markets, while Elliott wave analysis offers you objective forecasts
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
8/1/2011 1:00:00 PM
Just as everyone greeted the bull in the early Monday morning trading, the DJIA reversed and fell by 100 points and the U.S. debt deal quickly went from a "bullish" to a "bearish" factor...
Filed Under: Barack Obama, debt ceiling, debt crisis, deficit, deflation, volatility
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
7/8/2011 3:45:00 PM
Should you vote for the candidate you like least in 2012?...
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Elliott Wave Theorist, Robert Prechter
Category: Stocks
By Bob Stokes
6/23/2011 3:45:00 PM
Can the stock market predict who wins the White House? Or, put another way, can the market predict who will not win the land's highest office? The link between markets and politics isn't obvious to most people. But once you see it for what it is, it's the first thing you look for...
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Elliott Wave Theorist, history's hidden engine, Robert Prechter, social mood, stock indexes
Category: Stocks
By Editorial Staff
10/4/2010 12:30:00 PM
This is Part IV of our multi-part series of questions and answers with Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International and the world's foremost authority on Elliott wave analysis. We are posting a new part every business day, so come back to elliottwave.com tomorrow for more!
Filed Under: Robert Prechter, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), Barack Obama, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Fannie Mae, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Category: Stocks
By Editorial Staff
7/2/2010 4:30:00 PM
Don't just celebrate the 4th of July this year. Celebrate its Fibonacci relationships with other landmark events in U.S. history that have created equality for different groups of people.
Filed Under: Fibonacci, Barack Obama
Category: Classic Prechter
"Where the Grapes of Wrath are Stored"
Discord, anger and division are primary characteristics of a bear-market collective psychology.
By Bob Stokes
3/31/2010 2:45:00 PM
Prechter's socionomics postulates that negative shared emotions dominate the society once social mood turns negative. Well, if you've been following the news, you know that discontent and discord are spreading. International and domestic strife is reflecting a darkening social mood -- just look at the ongoing health care debate.
Filed Under: social mood, Robert Prechter, Barack Obama, gold futures, silver futures
Category: Cultural Trends
By Jim Martens, Senior Currency Strategist
10/13/2009 11:45:00 AM
Remember how bearish people were on oil ten years ago? Today, it's the U.S. dollar. This recent headline on DrudgeReport.com, "Kiss the Dollar Goodbye," complete with a picture of a smooching President Obama, is a fair reflection of the sentiment toward the buck. But here's what it likely means...
Filed Under: U.S. dollar, crude oil, Barack Obama
Category: Currencies
By Editorial Staff
6/19/2009 1:00:00 AM
One year ago, The Elliott Wave Theorist published a study that showed the importance of Fibonacci time durations in the establishment of political rights for African-Americans and women. It's still exciting and relevant today.
Filed Under: Fibonacci, Fibonacci, Barack Obama
Category: Classic Prechter
By Nico Isaac
3/25/2009 4:15:00 PM
In last night’s (March 24) televised Presidential press conference, the air of tension surrounding the ongoing economic crisis grew hotter than a habanero pepper in Hades. One of the most burning questions put to President Barack Obama was this: Is China right in calling for the creation of a new “super-sovereign” reserve currency to replace the currently dominant greenback?
Filed Under: U.S. dollar, cash, Barack Obama
Category: Currencies
By Susan C. Walker
2/20/2009 4:45:00 PM
Bernie Madoff's clients turned their money over to his securities firm on the hope that what he said he could do – make money on investments in both up years and down years – was actually possible. But some hopes can be unfounded, just like investors' optimism in the face of a bear market.
Filed Under: Bear market, Barack Obama
Category: Classic Prechter
By Robert Folsom
1/20/2009 5:45:00 PM
It stands to reason that Tuesday – more so than any day in living memory – Tuesday should have seen a stock market rally that made a sonic boom as it left the atmosphere.
Filed Under: Barack Obama
Category: Stocks
How Obama Won the Presidency
A look at social mood’s role in Barack Obama’s presidential victory – and how it will continue to influence his presidency.
By Gary Grimes
1/20/2009 10:15:00 AM
Talent, intellect, determination and fund-raising aside, you must dig beneath the crust of stump-speech rhetoric to uncover the larger force driving Barack Obama to victory.
Filed Under: Barack Obama
Category: Cultural Trends
By Nico Isaac
1/5/2009 4:30:00 PM
In the wake of Barack Obama's historic presidential election, it's difficult not to acknowledge his predecessor George W. Bush's precipitous fall from that very position of leader of the Free World...
Filed Under: Barack Obama
Category: U.S. Economy
By Nico Isaac
11/5/2008 7:45:00 PM
In the wake of Democratic senator Barack Obama's historic rise to the ranks of United States President, it's difficult not to acknowledge his predecessor George W. Bush's precipitous fall from that very position...
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Nico Isaac
6/4/2008 4:45:00 PM
On the morning of June 4, one phrase epitomized the frenzied climate on Wall Street: “Change is in the Air” -- As in, the 180-degree turnaround in the leading U.S. stock index from UP to D-O-W n. Since soaring to a four-month high on May 19, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been as happy as a clam… nearing a pot of boiling hot water...
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), credit crisis
Category: Stocks
By Nico Isaac
5/6/2008 6:00:00 PM
These days, there’s more round-the-clock press coverage of soaring oil prices than of the Democratic party's primary elections. And, much like those political contests, each day the mainstream “experts” offer a new twist on the outcome...
Filed Under: crude oil, Barack Obama, crude oil
Category: Energy