Where Did All the Bears Go?
That’s what Schaeffers Investment Research is asking after a huge run in the market in recent months. Despite persistent chatter that everyone is expecting a...
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ECRI: The Stock Market Doesn’t Mean There’s No Recession
Lakshman Achuthan and the ECRI are sticking by the recession call they made in September 2011 when Achuthan stated “Our indicators are falling a way...
The Inherent Fragility of the “Wealth Effect”
You probably thought the boom/bust cycle experiment that started with Alan Greenspan was over when Ben Bernanke came to the Fed. Or maybe you weren’t...
Mexican Telecom Sector Under Scrutiny
America Movil (AMX, quote) and Grupo Televisa (TV, quote) both dropped in Wednesday trading as a result of new legislation designed to further liberalize the...
Ritholtz: The Truth About Market Timing
“The data overwhelmingly shows that no one is ever going to make a risk assessment that allows them to top tick on the way out...
Zillow forecasts Case-Shiller House Price Index to Increase 8.0% Year-over-year for January
We predict that next month’s Case-Shiller data (January 2013) will show that the 20-City Composite Home Price Index (non-seasonally adjusted [NSA]) increased 8.0 percent on...
Jeb Bush Says Mitt Romney’s Taxes Are “Incredibly High.”
President Obama won a second term in the White House in part by “dividing the country,” former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) said in an...
Update: The Recession Probability Chart
Last November, I mentioned a recession probability chart from the St Louis Fed that was making the rounds, and that some people were misusing the...
Pessimism Rises Even as Dow Hits a New High
Though aggregate pessimism increased as the Dow Jones industrial average reached new record highs, some individual investors described themselves as being more optimistic in the...
Gallup Economic Confidence Index Plunges
It’ll be a week until we get another read on retail sales and it’s important to remember that, oftentimes, Americans do and say two very...