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Stock market margin debt – Business Insider

Doug Short, Advisor PerspectivesHere’s some encouraging news for stock-market bears …Margin debt (red in the chart above) hit a new high in April.Even after adjusting for inflation, margin debt is now higher than it was at the peak of the great bull market in 2000 and the echo bull market in 2007.What is “margin debt”?It’s the amount of money stock […]

Warren Buffett Stock Market Value – Business Insider

I have recently noted that I am concerned about the level of stock prices these days.The main reason for this concern is that every predictive valuation measure (emphasis on predictive) I look at suggests that stocks are drastically overvalued.As many smart analysts have pointed out, valuation is useless as a near-term market-timing tool: It tells you nothing about what stocks […]