Akin Oyedele
Mar. 25, 2015, 5:45 PM
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Screenshot via Bloomberg TVDavid RosenbergIt was a rough day for stocks.In a note to clients on Wednesday, Gluskin Sheff’s David Rosenberg took a step back to highlight four of the biggest obstacles facing the bull market.Here’s what Rosenberg outlined:Earnings momentum has slowed. Bottom-up consensus forecasts for S&P 500 operating earnings growth in the first quarter have […]
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This six year old bull market has been marked by both low volatility and declining trading volumes.The trading volumes story is a somewhat complex. Some argued that it was a sign of “low confirmation,” meaning investors didn’t have a lot of conviction in their purchases as reflected by small bets.Some argued that because prices were actually higher, the dollar […]
Myles Udland
Mar. 25, 2015, 2:55 PM
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Flickr/Gonzalo IzaBiotech investors have been here before.Stocks are lower on Wednesday and the high-flying biotech sector is leading the way down, with the iShares ETF that tracks the sector falling more than 3%. And as the sector has weakened over the last several days, this sell off is starting to look at lot like the sell […]
Myles Udland
Mar. 25, 2015, 2:55 PM
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Flickr/Gonzalo IzaBiotech investors have been here before.Stocks are lower on Wednesday and the high-flying biotech sector is leading the way down, with the iShares ETF that tracks the sector falling more than 3%. And as the sector has weakened over the last several days, this sell off is starting to look at lot like the sell […]
Akin Oyedele
Mar. 23, 2015, 2:21 PM
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Biotech stocks are on fire.That’s given some analysts flashbacks of 2000, when tech valuations were red hot, but it didn’t end well because they crashed.Michael Batnick over at The Irrelevant Investor posted this chart Monday that compares the rally in tech stocks then to biotechs in recent years.He describes the biotech rally:”In the 168 weeks since […]
Yahoo! FinanceThis six-year old bull market continues its tumultuous rally. The S&P 500 hit an all-time high of 2,119.59 on February 25, 2015.From there, it tumbled 3% to 2,039.69 on March 11, leading some folks to speculate that this was the beginning of a sharp downturn, or perhaps the beginning of a major bear market. Deutsche Bank’s David Bianco said […]
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Remember when Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that social media and biotech stocks seemed pricey during a July 2014 testimony to Congress? “…Valuation metrics in some sectors do appear substantially stretched—particularly those for smaller firms in the social media and biotechnology industries, despite a notable downturn in equity prices for such firms early in the year,” she said.On Twitter, […]
Akin Oyedele
Mar. 9, 2015, 9:41 AM
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David Paul Morris/Getty ImagesSee AlsoAlbert Edwards: Global liquidity is evaporatingHappy Birthday, Bull Market!Deutsche Bank isn’t sure Nasdaq 5000 is all that different this timeStocks are expensive.”The typical stock in the S&P 500 trades at 18.1x forward earnings, ranking at the 99th percentile of historical valuation since 1976,” wrote Goldman Sachs’ David Kostin.Kostin wrote that what clients ask […]
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Stock prices relative to earnings are very expensive. This is reflected by the high price-earnings (PE) ratio.One closely-followed version of the PE ratio is Robert Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted price-earnings (CAPE) ratio, which is calculated by taking the S&P 500 and dividing it by the average of ten years worth of earnings. If the ratio is above the long-term average of […]
A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits. They put together a preliminary budget and an RFP that asked vendors to take the data the company had — customer call and payments behavior, online searches, social network activity, billing, etc. — and identify opportunities.Vendors salivated […]
