Stock Market Thoughts For the End of the Year
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 26, 2013 – 02:43 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
What a year this has been! As you can see from Doug Short’s S&P chart, we’re now up 171% from our 2009 low of 666 but the mission is not yet accomplished at 1,833 – not with […]
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by FS Staff“So the Fed kept filling up the punch bowl and instead of going into inflation of goods prices, it went into an inflation of asset prices. That’s inflation in the same way, but it’s not called inflation. So if the stock market goes up and doubles, we don’t say, ‘Oh, my God-there’s been inflation!’ Or, if housing prices […]
The “Fed’s taper decision signals end of era for easy money” blares the Financial Times headline, the day after the U.S. stock market has risen to record levels following the taper announcement. Wasn’t the much-maligned QE that the Fed has begun to taper/reduce supposed to be causing a stock market bubble? So why does starting to take it away trigger […]
For weeks, the question of whether or not the Fed would begin tapering their QE program was the focus of the stock market.
After each and every economic report, the issue was always the same: Was good news bad for stocks because it meant the Fed would start pulling the punch bowl? Or was good news actually good because it meant […]
By David Larrabee, CFAAs the bull market for U.S. stocks approaches its fifth anniversary, we are starting to see signs typically associated with the latter stages of a multi-year advance in equities. Bearish sentiment, widely seen as a contrarian indicator, has dropped to levels not seen in a generation, retail investors are returning to stocks, and the IPO market has […]
Wikimedia CommonsChewing gum from France’s Haribo factory.Is the stock market a bubble?
Liz Ann Sonders doesn’t think so.”The growing cries that we’ve reached sentiment or valuation extreme worthy of past tops, or a bubble at its bursting point, seems a bit premature,” wrote Sonders recently.While there are warning signs for the economy and the markets, most signs actually suggest that fears […]
In most of the obvious ways, the stock market is closing out a very big year: The broad indexes are up more than 20% to reach new all-time highs, and the value of U.S. stocks has scarcely ever been greater relative to the size of the economy.Yet in a few subtle but telling respects, the stock market is shrinking.There are […]
Robert Shiller, 2013 Nobel laureate in economics, told a German magazine sharp rises in equity and property prices may signal a dangerous financial bubble, which could have an extremely bad end.
The Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, who
shared the Nobel Prize with two other Americans for research
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Robert Shiller: ‘The world is still very vulnerable to a bubble.’ Photograph: Brendan McDermid/ReutersOne of the winners of this year’s Nobel prize in economics has warned that sharp rises in equity and property prices could lead to a financial bubble.Robert Shiller, who won the award with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen for research into market prices and asset bubbles, […]
