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Someone has to say it: “Doomsters, you have been wrong now for nearly two years. Why not shut up?” On the one hand doomsters are very profitable for me because they represent the sentiment that makes stocks cheap for me to buy. However, on the other hand, I’m fed up with the bearish pollution sloshing around the media. Are these doomsters making money? If so, how? Of course there are problems, were problems, will be problems. But the credit crunch crash is dead and we are now healing. We will be healing for more years to come. The market will...

The stock market is all about nominal prices. That is, prices that aren't adjusted for inflation or what analysts call "relative performance" -- how an investment has fared when compared with competing assets. While this may seem like a parlor game, comparing how investments fare over time is a key element in portfolio management. Relative performance boils down to this: Sell assets that are historically overpriced, and buy assets that are historically underpriced. The equities industry and the financial media tend to shy away from relative-performance analyses, and a few charts help explain this reticence. But in short, when adjusted...

Uh-oh. Jeffrey Hirsch, author of the long-running 'Stock Trader's Almanac' has forecast the Dow Jones Industrial Index to hit 38,820. But the catch is that he believes the majority of future gains won't start until 2017, when we enter an eight-year super boom. So he's forecasting Dow 38,820, by 2025: Bloomberg: “All previous major economic booms and secular bull markets were driven by peace, inflation from war and crisis spending, and ubiquitous enabling technologies that created major cultural paradigm shifts and sustained prosperity,” he wrote in a press release sent with the 44th edition of the book. So he's looking...

"Sign, sign everywhere a sign, Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind, Do this, don’t do that, Can’t you read the sign?" --The Five Man Electrical Band, 1971 A big drop on Friday wiped out earlier gains in the week and left the Dow Jones Industrials down 1%. The Dow is lower by 3.2% since January 1. The S&P 500 pulled back 1.2%, its third weekly loss in the past four. NASDAQ showed a loss of 0.8%. Corporations reported quarterly earnings in earnest last week and the news has largely been good. So far, three out of four companies have...

According to one leading expert, the Dow could hit 50,000 by 2015 and 100,000 by 2020. Should you buy? Maybe. But then, another expert says the Dow could lose 90 percent of its value and close below 1,000 by year end. Oh my! Should you sell? What's a wise investor to do? A wise investor will ignore this nonsense. Wild market predictions aren't investment advice. They're grandstanding by newsletter writers and investment gurus trying to grab media attention. Sometimes I wonder if the self-proclaimed market experts who make these predictions do double duty as supermarket tabloid headline writers and come...

Homeland Security: President Obama promised lobbyists wouldn't run his White House. They're just doing it from across the street — at a Shariah-compliant coffee chain tied to a radical jihadist group. That's right: According to the New York Times, prominent K Street lobbyists are buttonholing Obama officials at a Caribou Coffee shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, raising far more than just ethics questions. What the Times story neglects to mention is that Caribou Coffee is a Shariah-compliant firm owned by an Islamic bank based in Bahrain. One of its founders and a current adviser are leaders in the radical Muslim Brotherhood....

Will Dow 10000 turn out to be a long replay of Dow 1000? Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 10000—again. Since March 16, 1999, when it first touched 10000 in intraday trading, the Dow has bounced over that threshold and back 63 times. This Friday, the index closed 219.6 points below where it stood exactly 11 years ago. This isn't the first time stocks have been stuck on a seemingly endless pogo-stick ride. On Jan. 18, 1966, the Dow hit an intraday high of 1000.50. It broke through the four-digit barrier three more times that January and...

One step forward, one step back, the stock market is acting like the hokey pokey so far in 2010. With lots of movement but not much change, U.S. equity prices are virtually where they started the year. The Dow Jones Industrials is -2.8% since January 1, while NASDAQ is -0.5%.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday as data showed consumer spending was unexpectedly flat last month and growth of U.S. Midwest business activity slowed more than expected. Investors jumped on the chance to book gains heading into a long holiday weekend and after Wall Street's rally in the previous session. May is on track to be the worst month for stocks since February 2009 after hitting an 18-month high in late April as investors fretted over a debt crisis in Europe and its implications for global growth. The Commerce Department said April was the first month since September...

The euro was weak again early Thursday and, predictably, global stocks followed suit. Japan's Nikkei fell 1.5% overnight, major European bourses were down 1.85% to 3% in recent trading, while U.S. proxies were down 2.5% to 3%. In recent trading, the Dow was below its 200-day moving average of 10,250, while the S&P 500, Dow Transports, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 were each more than 10% below recent highs, or in official "correction" territory. Traders watch such technical indicators closely, and concerns about moving averages and the like can become self-fulfilling and generate more selling. At the same time, the selloff...

Stocks fell sharply Thursday after an unexpected spike in jobless claims and as global jitters pushed the dollar higher. -snip- The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 300 points, or almost 3 percent, and the CBOE volatility index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, spiked more than 20 percent to above 43, its highest level in over a year.

Dow Theorist: Sell Everything Liquid, You Won't Recognize America By The End Of The Year Joe Weisenthal May. 18, 2010, 8:57 AM Image: US Army WHOA! Richard Russell, the famous writer of the Dow Theory Letters, has a chilling line in today's note: Do your friends a favor. Tell them to "batten down the hatches" because there's a HARD RAIN coming. Tell them to get out of debt and sell anything they can sell (and don't need) in order to get liquid. Tell them that Richard Russell says that by the end of this year they won't recognize the country....

Early last week, the stock market cheered a $1 trillion bailout package to contain Europe’s debt crisis. The Dow Jones Industrials went up more than 400 points on Monday. By the end of the week, however, worries returned that European austerity plans would slow economic growth. The euro sank to a four-year low. Just a while ago, the euro was being touted as the world’s primary currency in-waiting. On Friday, the Dow dropped 1.5% to trim the week’s gain to just 240 points. The S&P 500 snapped a two-week decline to close +2.2%. So far in 2010, both the S&P...

NEW YORK – Stocks dropped again Friday after concerns grew that the deep spending cuts under Europe's bailout plan could slow a global recovery. The euro dropped to a 19-month low. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 215 points in afternoon trading following a slide of more than 3 percent in European markets. Investors seeking safety piled into Treasurys, the dollar and gold, which hit another record. Crude oil sank 4 percent, and an indicator of stock market volatility jumped. Currency traders have been moving out of the euro throughout the week because of concerns that cost-cutting measures in countries...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 404.71 points, or 3.9%, to 10785.14, helped by gains in all 30 of its components. The average had its biggest one-day gain in both point and percentage terms since March 23, 2009. The Standard Poor's 500-stock index rose 4.4% to 1159.73, led by its financial and consumer-discretionary sectors, up more than 5% each. All the broad measure's other indexes posted gains as well.

Here is amazing video from CNBC this afternoon of stock guru Jim Cramer on air with Erin Burnett and others as they watched the Dow drop to nearly 1,000 points down and then rebound dramatically to a drop of less than 400 points. When the video begins, it shows Cramer talking about Proctor & Gamble being down to $47.01, off over $15 for the day. Cramer said PG was worth more than that, and urged people to buy it at that price. By the time the video ends, it had rebounded to over $60 a share, and was only off...

While everyone is scratching their heads and trying to figure out how the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) lost nearly 1,000 points before rallying back to lose only 347 points - it appears not to be limited to just one stock. On CNBC's May 6 "Closing Bell," correspondent Matt Nesto explained that investigators for both the stock exchanges and for Citigroup, the firm that some are pointing fingers at for a so-called trader error, have narrowed it down to a futures index called the E-mini S&P 500. "A person familiar with the Citi investigation said one focus of the trading...

The White House briefing room might have been the calmest place in America during the Dow's knee-buckling, nearly 1,000-point plunge this afternoon. The dive, which came amid deepening fears that the European debt crisis will infect the United States, came, ironically enough, minutes after Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin had just exited the briefing after talking about regulatory reform -- but not Greece. The first word of the rout came from NBC's Savannah Guthrie, who, reading from her BlackBerry, informed White House press secretary Robert Gibbs that the market "has dropped 1,000" points.

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