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• Yales Crash Confidence Index

  
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  Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: The Yale School of Management conducts a number of sentiment surveys each month on individual and institutional investors. One of the surveys asks, "How confident are you that there will be no stock market crash in the next six months?" Based on the results of the survey, ...
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• Report from Europe: Stocks Recovering After Data Points to Dovish Fed

  
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  The Mole submits: US stocks fell for the first time in five days Tuesday, led by financial shares, on concern that share sales, future interest-rate increases and credit-card delinquencies will weigh on earnings at lenders. News of majority leader Steny Hoyer’s suggestion that the US House is considering ...
  9 hours ago

• Adapting Annualized Volatility

  
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  Bill Luby submits: In Calculating Centered and Non-centered Historical Volatility I attempted to walk through the steps and calculations necessary for determining of historical volatility (HV) using an Excel spreadsheet. The second to last step in the calculation (before translating the final number into a ...
  9 hours ago

• First Stocks, Then the Economy...Is Job Growth Next?

  
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  Jim Kopas submits: The 2007-2009 global financial crisis, the second most vicious bear market of the last century, caught many off guard and displayed unexpected characteristics when compared to past economic downturns. With the decline being so atypical many are surprised to learn that the road to recovery has ...
  14 hours ago

• Individual Investor Challenge: Can You Succeed by Going It Alone?

  
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  Jeff Miller submits: We have a special concern for individual investors. This was at the heart of my reason for starting this blog. Many evenings I imagine and write directly to such a person. With this in mind, let us imagine an investor who is unhappy with his/her manager, and is ready to embark on a ...
  17 hours ago

• Inflation in Producer Prices Reappears

  
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  Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 3.1% Well, its official. Inflations back. At least the inflation in producer prices measured over a years time. This morning, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that wholesale prices for finished ...
  22 hours ago

• 2009 Changes in Market Caps

  
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  Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: Below we highlight the percent of world stock market cap that various countries make up and how the numbers have changed this year. As shown, the US remains the biggest country with its stocks making up 29.61% of world market cap. This is more than three times Japans ...
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• Comparing Financials and the Nasdaq

  
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  Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: Many people have compared the decline in Financials during the most recent bear market to the decline in the Nasdaq when the Internet bubble burst in 2000. Below we highlight a chart showing the decline from their peaks for the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 Financial sector. The ...
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• Why Merrill Lynch Is Bullish on 2010: Foreseeing a Burst of the Pessimism Bubble

  
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  We are just about finished wrapping up our series on 2010 outlooks. In this article we’ll outline Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is very bullish heading into 2010 ( an outlook similar to RBC ). They see many of the trends of 2009 continuing into 2010 and driving equity markets ...
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• Report from Europe: Theme Du Jour -- Sovereign Credit Risk

  
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  The Mole submits: Overnight US equities closed at 14-month highs, boosted by Abu Dhabi’s decision to make a $10 billion payment to Dubai World to help it as it negotiates its debt standstill arrangement and Exxon Mobil’s ( XOM ) belated move into gas in a $31 billion deal move for XTO Energy ( XTO ). Visa ( V ...
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• Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

  
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  Wells bids TARP farewell. Wells Fargo ( WFC ) became the last major lender to exit TARP, announcing late Monday plans to repay its entire $25B in TARP loans through a $10.4B stock offering. Coupled with Citigroups ( C ) exit early Monday, $161B of the $245B pumped into institutions will have been repaid. The ...
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• Warnings from the Former Green Shoots Choir

  
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  Of late, there has been a growing chorus coming from the former green shoots team of economic powers-that-be warning us that some wilting may be possible, related to various deficiencies of foundation soil nutrients, or so it seems. Within this past week, one by one, these leaders have made statements warning that ...
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• What Is Inflation and Why Do We Care?

  
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  The Hedonic Calculus submits: I m writing this post because when I have conversations about inflation/deflation with people on Wall Street, many times it seems like were talking about two different phenomena. They seem to talk about consumer prices increases while I talk about inflation in the classical sense: a ...
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• Recovery Outlook: Overall Economic Growth

  
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  Economic rebound remains robust and broad-based The US data schedule was light this week, but what was reported provided additional confidence regarding the sustainability of the economic recovery. Complete Story »
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• Bona Fide Recovery Seems in Order

  
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  Global equity markets closed higher as the prospect for a bona fide recovery now seems assured. The markets were able to shake off credit fears and focus on continued positive economic data coming out of the U.S. On Wall Street the DJIA closed up 65.67 points to 10,471.50 on better than expected Advanced Retail Sales ...
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• Government Action: Mission Not Accomplished

  
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  Peter Schiff submits: Although Barack Obama has refrained, at least for now, from delivering triumphant speeches in a naval flight suit, there is nevertheless a strong tone of accomplishment emanating from the President and his deputies. Over the weekend, top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers ...
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• Strategic Default: The New Stimulus

  
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  Trader Mark submits: Do not underestimate how much American spending / economic data is being supported by the defaulters ... walk away from your largest debt and your monthly spending can immediately shoot up. Even in some pieces in early 2008, we were writing about how for the first time in US history people ...
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• What Do Labels Used by Mutual Funds Really Mean?

  
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  Trader Mark submits: Joshua Brown over at The Reformed Broker has the "inside baseball" look at what these mutual fund (and ETF) labels really mean. Thankfully he did not target what I am thinking of using "Absolute Return" [click to enlarge] Complete Story »
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• S&P 500 Hits New Closing High for 2009

  
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  Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: With little fanfare or hoopla, the S&P 500 put in a closing high for 2009 Monday after trading and remaining above 1,110. As shown at right (click to enlarge) , this level has acted as resistance over the last several weeks. Longer term, however, 1,113 is a level ...
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• Market Themes and the January Meltdown

  
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  Alex Trias submits: It is not altogether uncommon to watch with dismay as equities markets around the world plunge in the first, second, maybe third week of trading of the new year. Most of the time, commentators chalk it up to deferred end of the year tax selling – the idea being that by recognizing gains in the ...
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