You Don’t Know Where the Stock Market is Heading!Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jun 02, 2015 – 09:20 PM GMTBy: Bob_LoukasI’ve been of two minds recently regarding the current Cycle picture in equities. So this week I focused more attention on finding secondary evidence to support a more definitive position ondirection. As I suspected it might, my research provided an almost […]
01Jun, 2015The Cure For Stock Market Fragmentation·The WSJ has an op-ed today titled “The Cure for Stock-Market Fragmentation: More Exchanges” which was written by Jonathan Macey (a Yale law professor) and David Swensen (Yale’s Chief Investment Officer). The article tackles what we believe is the number one problem with the US equity market: fragmentation. The authors sum up this problem in a […]
By Michael Snyder, on May 31st, 2015Are stocks overvalued? By just about any measure that you could possibly name, stocks are at historically high prices right now. From a technical standpoint, the stock market is more overvalued today than it was just prior to the last financial crisis. The only two moments in U.S. history that even compare to […]
PBS NewshourRobert Shiller.There isn’t a full-on stock market bubble breaking out, but it sort of looks like it. In an interview with Goldman Sachs’ Allison Nathan this weekend, Yale professor and Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller was asked if the stock market is currently in a bubble. Shiller wouldn’t go so far as to say we’re definitely in a bubble, but said there are […]
Wild Swings Coming in Stock Market!By: Brad Gudgeon | Sat, May 30, 2015SharePrintEmailLast time I wrote, the market looked toppy and I was anticipating a 2.5 week low Tuesday (which used to be the dominant 5 week lo). We rallied Wednesday after the expected selling then sold off the rest of the week. I had said that I expected a […]
In his “Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets” blog earlier this year, veteran investor Mark Mobius noted, “According to the Chinese calendar, 2015 is the Year of the Goat (or sheep), creatures that are typically peaceful in nature but can also be stubborn, while exhibiting herd-like behavior.”That year official began on February 19. And so far, the Chinese zodiac has completely […]
This past week, Houston, where I live, was flooded by a torrential down pour. However, it was not the rain itself that was the problem, it was the surge in rivers that flow through Houston. As far away as Austin and Dallas, rainfall had already began to flow into the San Jacinto and Colorado rivers which eventually culminated in rising […]
Submitted by Lance Roberts via STA Wealth Management,This past week, Houston, where I live, was flooded by a torrential down pour. However, it was not the rain itself that was the problem, it was the surge in rivers that flow through Houston. As far away as Austin and Dallas, rainfall had already began to flow into the San Jacinto and […]
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The eye-popping volatility and explosive nature of China’s stock market lately has the world’s traders watching in awe.Business Insider’s David Scutt noted that China’s Shanghai Composite index crashed a breath-taking 11% in the past two days before recovering some of its losses.Still, the index is up 43% since the beginning of the year and up 134% from a year […]
REUTERS/Brendan McDermidByron Wien.Stocks have catapulted through recovery.Among the things that have driven the expansion, a key factor has been the role of the Federal Reserve.In market commentary Wednesday, Blackstone’s Byron Wien pegs a number on this: $3 trillion.Even though we’ve seen company earnings more than double between 2009 and 2014, there has been concern that the market rally has largely […]
