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If you're in the stock market, it doesn't matter if you … – Business Insider

Sam Ro

Jun. 1, 2015, 11:38 AM
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There’s nothing more important to stock prices than earnings and expectations for earnings growth. Earnings, or net income, is literally the bottom line.While that’s a principle that plays out in the market in the long-run, it unfortunately doesn’t in the long run.Take this chart from FactSet’s John Butters. It shows the trajectory of the S&P […]

Stock market complacency is back – Business Insider

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Market complacency has re-emerged, warns Deutsche Bank’s David Bianco.His preferred measure of this is the PE / VIX ratio. (PE is short for price-earnings, a measure of stock market value. The VIX is the CBOE volatility index, a rough measure of “fear” in the stock market.)From Bianco’s note: “Our PE/VIX market emotion indicator climbed to 1.3 on S&P trailing […]