RSS FeedThe S&P 500 has rallied approximately 5% in the first four weeks of the New Year and is sitting near a multi-month high. The index is up roughly 20% from the recent low set on Oct. 1, 2011. This is a sign that stocks are back into an official bull market. Everything [...]
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4 ETFs For A Market Pullback : BIV, DNO, DRR, SH
Posted by on February 3rd, 2012
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Posted by on January 16th, 2012
Until the bond markets signal “all clear” and the spreads between the bonds of Europe’s dilemma children and German bunds shrinks to some thing far more manageable, I count on European stocks to be volatile.
But volatility by itself is practically nothing to dread. If you purchase the appropriate firms at the right rates, volatility is [...]
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Posted by on January 4th, 2012
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Wall Street “gurus” come and go, but in the case of Bob Farrell legendary standing was achieved. He spent a number of decades as chief stock industry analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. and had a front-row seat at the go-go markets of the late 1960s, mid-1980s and late 1990s, the brutal bear market of [...]
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Posted by on December 11th, 2011
Stocks in the Consumer Staples sector performed their traditional defensive role as the broader equity markets came under pressure over concerns about the prolonged weak U.S. economy and the debt crisis in Europe. Shares of consumer staples companies, accounting for a total of about 11.4% of the S&P 500 Index, were [...]
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Posted by on December 5th, 2011
By Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. International Investors
December has historically been one of the strongest months of the year for equity markets. Taking a appear more than the past 20 a long time, the S&P 500 Index in December has averaged 2 %.
This year has been extraordinarily turbulent, although. In fact, 2011 [...]
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