You’ll find that it’s incredibly rare to find stocks that perform well in a bear market. Generally less than 20% of the S&P 500 has positive returns during the history [ … ]
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POOPING ON THE HOME SALES PARADE
Investors are celebrating the surprise jump in existing home sales this morning. The National Association of Realtors said that home sales increased to a seasonally-adjusted, annualized rate of 4.74 million [ … ]
OUTLOOK UPDATE
At this point I am still firmly in the bear camp – a position I have been in for over 2 full years. But I am beginning to see some [ … ]
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?
My expectation ratio is one of my preferred stock market indicators. In essence, it is made up of several earnings related components and compared to analysts expectations. This makes it [ … ]
ROUBINI: “SUCKER’S RALLY OVER”
Nouriel Roubini is as bearish as ever. For a few weeks since late November, equity markets ignored the onslaught of much-worse-than-expected macro news (and all the news was really worse [ … ]
REGRESSION TO TREND?
There has been a lot of talk in the last few days about an article on MarketWatch referring to trend regression. The article argues that we could be near a [ … ]
JOHN THAIN’S WORLD….
In John Thain’s world you get paid tens of millions of dollars. You spend $1 million on a new office. You expect a $10 million bonus after your stock falls [ … ]
APPLE Q4 – MIXED AT FIRST GLANCE
It’s hard to say anything bad about Q4 at Apple (ticker:AAPL) considering the environment. Sales were up 5.8% year over year, margins were flat, net income was flat and diluted [ … ]
THE HEIDI KLUM PORTFOLIO
An off topic look at the Heidi Klum portfolio: Cullen RocheMr. Roche is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Discipline Funds.Discipline Funds is a low fee financial advisory firm [ … ]