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  • We Were Right!
    Special Report: Record Dow -- Last year we predicted the Dow would hit 15,000 in 2013. That performance may be just the beginning.
  • The Smart Money Is Still Bullish
    The market timers with the best track records are unanimous: Stocks are headed higher. Those with the worst performance history, meanwhile, say it's time to ...
  • Cues From Cooperman
    How Wall Street titan Leon Cooperman stays on top in investing and philanthropy.
  • Big Profits From Bad Backs
    Spinal device maker Globus Medical is poised to boost sales as aging Americans seek surgical solutions for their back pain.
  • Time to Buy Stable Value Funds?
    With stocks and bonds bid up high, investors interested in safeguarding 401(k) capital may want to buy stable value funds.
  • MVPs in MLPs
    Credit Suisse cites EV Energy, Hi-Crush, QR Energy and others.
  • Sector and Capitalization Performance
    The chart below shows performance of US sectors and capitalizations over the trailing 12, 6, and 1 month(s).  Performance updated through 5/23/2013. Numbers shown are ...
  • The Pullback in Japan
    In light of Thursday’s 7.3% drop in the Nikkei 225, we wanted to review Japan from a trend and relative strength perspective.  Performance over the ...
  • Fund Flows
    Mutual fund flow estimates are derived from data collected by The Investment Company Institute covering more than 95 percent of industry assets and are adjusted ...
  • High RS Diffusion Index
    The chart below measures the percentage of high relative strength stocks that are trading above their 50-day moving average (universe of mid and large cap ...
  • “Reform-Oriented Emerging Economies”
    Financial Times author, Ruchir Sharma, says that money flows into the emerging markets are more discriminate this decade. As the printing presses continue to hum, however, ...
  • Friday links: just because you can…
    Quote of the day Charles Rotblut, “(S)ome investments are often pitched to benefit the seller or the company facilitating the transaction, not the investor. This ...
  • Thursday links: persistently poor performance
    If you haven’t done it already think about signing up for our daily e-mail, thousands of other Abnormal Returns readers already have. Quote of the ...
  • Wednesday links: overinflated self-esteem
    This is an early (and incomplete) edition of the linkfest. We will catch up tomorrow. Good luck out there. Quote of the day Francisco Dao, ...
  • Tuesday links: street amnesiacs
    Quote of the day Jason Zweig, “Turnaround Tuesday is a reminder of Wall Street’s most enduring mental handicap: amnesia. Tuesdays haven’t always been a lucky ...
  • Monday links: the profit bubble
    Quote of the day James Surowiecki, “It’s still possible that investor hysteria could eventually inflate stock prices, or that investor panic could send them crashing, ...
  • A So-So Week for Earnings
    Even though earnings season unofficially ended last week with Wal-Mart's (WMT) report, there were still plenty of key reports this week.  In the S&P 500 ...
  • AAII Bullish Sentiment Approaches 50%
    Investors sure picked a bad time to turn increasingly bullish this week.  According to the weekly sentiment survey from the American Association of Individual Investors ...
  • Jobless Claims Better Than Expected
    Following yesterday's testimony from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, if there was a week where investors may have wanted a weaker than expected jobless claims report, ...
  • US, Japan Gain on Rest of World in 2013
    Earlier today we looked at US sector weightings, and below we take a look at the percentage of total world stock market cap that ...
  • Wall Street Strategist Year-End S&P 500 Price Targets
    While the S&P 500 had a big downside reversal lower today, it's still more than 8% ABOVE the average year-end price target that Wall Street ...
  • Strong Durable Goods Report for April
    The durable goods report for March was a bust, but April’s came back pretty strong. This morning, the Commerce Department said durable goods were up ...
  • CWS Market Review – May 24, 2013
    “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett We’re back after a short hiatus last week. I was impressed that the stock ...
  • Morning News: May 24, 2013
    ECB’s Draghi: ‘Imperative’ to Set Up New Bank Body Japan the Model Apple’s Tax Magic Leaves Irish Bondholders Unmoved In Tax Overhaul Debate, It’s Small ...
  • Ross Stores Earns $1.07 per Share for Q1
    After the closing bell, Ross Stores ($ROST) reported first-quarter earnings of $1.07 per share. That’s up 15% from a year ago. Q1 ...
  • The Great Market Crash of Mid- to Late-May 2013
    Traders seem a bit nervous today. The big turnaround from yesterday is continuing into this morning. Yesterday’s high for the S&P 500 came at about ...
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson quote
    “The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of ...
  • Currency speculators....
    From Expeditors International of Washington’s latest 8-K (after they had also quoted from Ben Stein’s book How To Really Ruin ...
  • Washington Irving quote
    Found via Jon Shayne. This is from Washington Irving’s The Crayon Papers, and there is a lot of investing wisdom packed into this ...
  • Cash gives the private investor an edge – By Merryn Somerset Webb
    Fund managers don’t like holding cash, but individual investors can and should I wrote last week about ...
  • Jamie Mai quote
    From the book Hedge Fund Market Wizards: “As a general observation, markets tend ...
  • Green Gate Fire
    The following was sent out to the Walker community about our most recent incident;
  • Marc Faber Quote
    Faber:In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the ...
  • Alan Abelson
    Alan Abelson has died. He was 87 years old. He started writing his column for Barron's in 1966 and kept writing up until a couple ...
  • Hoot Owl Fire
  • Luskin Take Down
    A very funny post where Barry Ritholtz chronicles the vast history of big calls by Donald Luskin. Here is just one, click through ...
  • What To Do About REITs?
    REITs have been the best performing major asset class since the market bottom in 2009, up over 200%.   What are the current drivers of ...
  • Q & A
    Fun question and answer session with the folks at Index U.  
  • Shareholder Yield Book is Out!
    I am going to do a longer piece on this topic later this week, but wanted to announce that the eBook is now out!  It’s ...
  • (Don’t) Follow Me
    The Ira Sohn conference is running with a great list of speakers, I attended last year and am sad to miss – it  is a ...
  • Combining Value, Trend, and Sentiment
    We did a post the other day that combined simple value and trend systems into a portfolio that resulted in much lower volatility and drawdowns. ...
  • KWN Weekly Metals Wrap
    The KWN Weekly Metals Wrap - We have added new segments to the KWN Weekly Metals Wrap covering gold, silver, trading and a plethora of ...
  • James Grant
    James Grant: Founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer & Acclaimed Author - James Grant originated the "Current Yield" column in Barron's before founding Grant's Interest ...
  • Michael Pento
    Michael Pento: President of Pento Portfolio Strategies - Michael is a well-established specialist in the “Austrian School” of economics. A regular on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox ...
  • Egon von Greyerz
    Egon von Greyerz (EvG): Founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG & GoldSwitzerland - EvG forecasted the current economic problems over 10 years ...
  • Andrew Maguire
    Andrew Maguire: Whistleblower & Independent London Metals Trader - Andrew has 30 years trading experience, both as an institutional and independent trader. He is an ...
  • Twitter Digest: 2013-05-23
    Exploring the deep mysteries of Gilligan's Island with the offspring http://t.co/vWUfkuORwR -> The astonishing power of swarms – http://t.co/ZgeLnEU8nw -> Money doesn̶'̶t̶ buy you happiness ...
  • Twitter Digest: 2013-05-22
    Some appealing features of a parliamentary system | MinnPost http://t.co/4RJSNgEHc3 -> Harassing @TWC about their dumb decision not to carry Premier League Extra Time & ...
  • Twitter Digest: 2013-05-21
    “He proposed a centi-million dollar dome over downtown”. Who is, Don Atchison. -> I’ll take “CRAZY CANADIAN MAYORS” for $1,000, Alex. I’m aces at that ...
  • Twitter Digest: 2013-05-19
    Urban Dictionary: Highlingual – The belief that, when high, you can speak two or more languages http://t.co/F9sjt3Y77j -> There hitherto unplumbed relationship between football passing ...
  • STTG Market Recap May 24, 2013
    The DJIA had been threatened with its first 3 day losing streak of the year but a rally in the closing minutes pushed that index ...
  • STTG Market Recap May 23, 2013
    Thursday could be described as "dip buyers show up again". After the outside day yesterday on the major indexes, global markets showed a lot ...
  • STTG Market Recap May 22, 2013
    In Monday's recap we wrote, in regard to Bernanke's testimony Wednesday:The fact we are going into that testimony on such a huge run and at ...
  • STTG Market Recap May 21, 2013
    It was a Tuesday in 2013. Thus the market was up. Simple enough. We've seen a remarkable streak of 19 up Tuesdays ...
  • STTG Market Recap May 20, 2013
    Welcome back to a new week as we enter the latter third of May. Remember the old adage "Sell in May and go away?". ...

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