Daily Analysis ... Bulls are Back??

After around 6.5% of drop in Dow Jones, 7.5% in Snp500 and same in Nasdaq 100 look like Bulls have woke up again on continuous positive economic news from US.Japan,Europe etc.Markets are all three major indices are trading above 50 day SMA on daily charts. which gives big indication  to markets that  bulls are  back

It's been an unnerving couple of weeks for investors. The Dow is off more than 5% from the all-time high it set on May 22, while the S&P 500 is down nearly 6.5% from the record it hit on that same date. But despite all the talk of fear and volatility, it's been a fairly orderly sell-off.

The worst of this recent slump for stocks was last Thursday, one day after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke gave his clearest explanation yet about when and how quantitative easing would end. But even though the Dow dropped a scary-sounding 353 points, that only worked out to a 2.3% drop. And the S&P 500 only fell 2.5%. That's hardly a panic.

Remember 2008? The Dow and S&P 500 had much worse daily drops back then.  And the markets in Japan and China have been far more volatile lately. The Shanghai Composite fellmore than 5% Monday. In Japan, the Nikkei has had several drops of more than 5% in the past month.

The lack of a truly bloodcurdling decline for the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq (so far at least) could be a promising sign. It may mean that, despite worries about emerging markets, Japan and Fed tapering, the recent weakness in U.S. stocks is nothing more than a long-awaited correction. It's not the beginning of a brutal bear market.

"This is healthy. We've had such a big run-up. We needed a pullback here," said Bob Landry, executive director and portfolio manager at USAA Investments in San Antonio.

Yes, the spike in long-term interest rates is alarming to traders. Wall Street is clearly not looking forward to the Fed taking the floaties off the bond market and asking investors to swim on their own. But a 10-year Treasury yield around 2.6% is not exactly something that should cripple demand for loans. And if rates go up because the economy is getting better, that's a good thing, not bad.

"If rates move higher out of economic strength, that's fine. It's coming off unusually low numbers," said Christopher Baggini, manager of the Turner Titan fund in Berwyn, Pa. He adds that investors should not truly be worried about long-term rates unless they moved closer to 4%.

So the key will be whether or not they settle around these levels or if investors continue to dump bonds and push rates even higher.

Richard Ross, global technical strategist with Auerbach Grayson in New York, thinks the bond sell-off is pretty much done. And it was needed as well.

After all, bonds were arguably as ahead of themselves as stocks this year. It was less than 2 months ago that the 10-year was at 1.6%. That's not that far off from the all-time low of just below 1.4%.

"A lot of the froth is now out of bonds and stocks. The market was overbought and some of the complacency has been removed," Ross said.

So where do stocks and bonds go from here? Landry said the U.S. should benefit from the fact that its macroeconomic challenges seem to pale in comparison to that of Japan, China, Brazil, Europe and just about any other market out there.

"The U.S. economy is not doing all that badly. The data generally paint a picture of an economy that, while not booming, seems like it's slowly improving," he said.

Ross agrees, and that's why he's urging investors not to blow the recent volatility (which often happens in the summer months) out of proportion. He added that many investors have been saying for months that the stock market was due for a dip. So this should not be a surprise.

"Everyone has been waiting for a pullback and now that it's happening they start thinking that the market is going out of business because it looks bad. It's supposed to look bad," he said.

Of course, this doesn't mean that it's now smooth sailing. Many experts expect more volatility ahead.

The China credit crunch fears are unlikely to go away overnight. And investors are still trying to figure out what the Fed is going to do and when. It's going to be bumpy. But Baggini said investors who can stick out the tough times should be rewarded.

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