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Patience Is A Virtue
Carbide Capital Inc. - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 3:19PM CDT
In a high tech world where we demand everything instantaneously, sometimes it's good to just sit back and be patient. The topic of whether the FED would remove the word "patient" and set the stage for an interest rate hike in June or September has...
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Duck This Dip- There's More Crazy Stuff Coming
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 1:00PM CDT
(Originally posted March 15) That didn’t take long! Yesterday’s rip was supposed to have turned the market back up. Its close at well above the “crucial” 2060 chart point on the S&P 500 cash index meant...
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BAML survey: Fund managers move out of U.S. stocks
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 11:21AM CDT
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The Great Immoderation: How The Fed Is Sowing The Next Recession
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 12, 2:51PM CDT
In February 2004 Ben Bernanke famously declared the business cycle had been tamed and took a bow in behalf of enlightened monetary management, claiming it was the principal source of this beneficent development. Exactly 55 months later, of course, he...
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Merger Monday In The Casino: Why SPG's Paying 56X For Macerich's Going Nowhere Malls
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 11, 8:03AM CDT
Now comes a prime example of central bank financial repression at work. It’s downright ugly and crystalizes how the Fed and other central banks are generating massive mis-allocations of capital and staggering windfall gains to Wall Street...
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Six Years Of Bull Market Bull
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 10, 7:25AM CDT
Never has there been a more artificial—-indeed, phony—–gain in the stock market than the 215% eruption orchestrated by the Fed since the post-crisis bottom six years ago today. And the operative word is “orchestrated”...
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TD Ameritrade: Investor Movement Index falls to two-year low
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 09, 11:48AM CDT
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Nasdaq 5,000 Is Different This Time... But Not In A Good Way!
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 04, 8:33AM CST
The robo-traders and Wall Street punters were busy painting the tape yesterday, and did bump the Nasdaq composite across the magic 5,000 threshold for the first time since March 2000. But even as Wall Street urged home-gamers to “return with us...
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Longtime U.S.stock bull heads for the exit
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 18, 12:06PM CST
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Where have the bears gone?
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 8:19AM CST
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Betting With Buffett: 7 Lean Years Later
CFA Institute Contributors - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 7:45AM CST
By Ted Seides, CFA Just as stock picks sometimes head in the wrong direction upon purchase and call into question whether a thesis is early or wrong, so too has hedge fund underperformance over the last seven years raised the question of whether...
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Complacency? U.S. investors stick with U.S. stocks
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 1:46PM CST
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Investors bet bond bull market isn't over
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 4:08PM CST
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Here We Go Again: The Robo Machines Are Raging
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 11:41AM CST
Here we go again. The robo machines have been raging for the past two days, and by mid-afternoon we were hovering around 2045 on the S&P 500. Since that’s only 2.3% below the all-time high reached at the end of December,...
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January's Market Volatility: Blip Or Omen?
Mohamed El-Erian - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 11:16AM CST
This story originally appeared on Bloomberg View. January was an unusual and exciting month for financial markets. Volatility returned to the equity markets . To use a rather unsophisticated measure, almost three-quarters of the trading days...
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The 6 Best Passive Large-Cap ETFs
Morningstar - Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 01, 3:00AM CST
By Michael Rawson The S&P 500 outperformed 80% of active managers in 2014 and beat the small-cap Russell 2000 Index by more than 8 percentage points. Strong fund flows reflected investor preference for large-cap funds as the three...
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Today's 'Dip' Is A Warning---Get Out Of The Casino!
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 1:28PM CST
Shortly after today’s open, the S&P 500 was down nearly 2% and off its recent all-time high by 3.5%. But soon the robo-machines and day traders were buying the “dip” having apparently once again gotten the...
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It's Earnings Season---So Here Come The Crooks, Led By Alcoa
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 14, 9:00AM CST
Once upon a time Alcoa (NYSE: AA ) was a great industrial powerhouse and innovator. Now it is a stumbling, pitiful giant that is a veritable wealth destroyer. And its dismal plight, which is thoroughly obfuscated by a Wall Street pleasing earnings...
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Tepper: 2015 shaping up like 1999
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Dec 23, 10:37AM CST
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: PowerShares QQQ, iShares Morningstar Large-Cap ETF, Southwest Airlines and Avago Technologies
PR Newswire - Tue Dec 23, 8:30AM CST
Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include the PowerShares QQQ (Nasdaq:QQQ-Free Report), iShares Morningstar Large-Cap ETF (AMEX:JKD-Free Report), Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV-Free Report) and Avago Technologies Limited (Nasdaq:AVGO-Free Report).
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Patience Is A Virtue
Carbide Capital Inc. - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 3:19PM CDT
In a high tech world where we demand everything instantaneously, sometimes it's good to just sit back and be patient. The topic of whether the FED would remove the word "patient" and set the stage for an interest rate hike in June or September has...
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Duck This Dip- There's More Crazy Stuff Coming
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 1:00PM CDT
(Originally posted March 15) That didn’t take long! Yesterday’s rip was supposed to have turned the market back up. Its close at well above the “crucial” 2060 chart point on the S&P 500 cash index meant...
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BAML survey: Fund managers move out of U.S. stocks
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 11:21AM CDT
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The Great Immoderation: How The Fed Is Sowing The Next Recession
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 12, 2:51PM CDT
In February 2004 Ben Bernanke famously declared the business cycle had been tamed and took a bow in behalf of enlightened monetary management, claiming it was the principal source of this beneficent development. Exactly 55 months later, of course, he...
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Merger Monday In The Casino: Why SPG's Paying 56X For Macerich's Going Nowhere Malls
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 11, 8:03AM CDT
Now comes a prime example of central bank financial repression at work. It’s downright ugly and crystalizes how the Fed and other central banks are generating massive mis-allocations of capital and staggering windfall gains to Wall Street...
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Six Years Of Bull Market Bull
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 10, 7:25AM CDT
Never has there been a more artificial—-indeed, phony—–gain in the stock market than the 215% eruption orchestrated by the Fed since the post-crisis bottom six years ago today. And the operative word is “orchestrated”...
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TD Ameritrade: Investor Movement Index falls to two-year low
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 09, 11:48AM CDT
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Nasdaq 5,000 Is Different This Time... But Not In A Good Way!
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 04, 8:33AM CST
The robo-traders and Wall Street punters were busy painting the tape yesterday, and did bump the Nasdaq composite across the magic 5,000 threshold for the first time since March 2000. But even as Wall Street urged home-gamers to “return with us...
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Longtime U.S.stock bull heads for the exit
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 18, 12:06PM CST
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Where have the bears gone?
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 8:19AM CST
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Betting With Buffett: 7 Lean Years Later
CFA Institute Contributors - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 7:45AM CST
By Ted Seides, CFA Just as stock picks sometimes head in the wrong direction upon purchase and call into question whether a thesis is early or wrong, so too has hedge fund underperformance over the last seven years raised the question of whether...
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Complacency? U.S. investors stick with U.S. stocks
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 1:46PM CST
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Investors bet bond bull market isn't over
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 4:08PM CST
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Here We Go Again: The Robo Machines Are Raging
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 11:41AM CST
Here we go again. The robo machines have been raging for the past two days, and by mid-afternoon we were hovering around 2045 on the S&P 500. Since that’s only 2.3% below the all-time high reached at the end of December,...
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January's Market Volatility: Blip Or Omen?
Mohamed El-Erian - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 11:16AM CST
This story originally appeared on Bloomberg View. January was an unusual and exciting month for financial markets. Volatility returned to the equity markets . To use a rather unsophisticated measure, almost three-quarters of the trading days...
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The 6 Best Passive Large-Cap ETFs
Morningstar - Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 01, 3:00AM CST
By Michael Rawson The S&P 500 outperformed 80% of active managers in 2014 and beat the small-cap Russell 2000 Index by more than 8 percentage points. Strong fund flows reflected investor preference for large-cap funds as the three...
EUSA: 45.51 (+0.45), IWB: 118.57 (+1.11), IYY: 106.93 (+0.89), VOO: 193.85 (+1.74), SCHX: 50.69 (+0.43), SPY: 210.41 (+0.91), ONEK: 99.56 (+0.39), VV: 97.40 (+0.88), VONE: 97.85 (+0.82), IVV: 212.85 (+1.86), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
Today's 'Dip' Is A Warning---Get Out Of The Casino!
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 1:28PM CST
Shortly after today’s open, the S&P 500 was down nearly 2% and off its recent all-time high by 3.5%. But soon the robo-machines and day traders were buying the “dip” having apparently once again gotten the...
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It's Earnings Season---So Here Come The Crooks, Led By Alcoa
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 14, 9:00AM CST
Once upon a time Alcoa (NYSE: AA ) was a great industrial powerhouse and innovator. Now it is a stumbling, pitiful giant that is a veritable wealth destroyer. And its dismal plight, which is thoroughly obfuscated by a Wall Street pleasing earnings...
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Tepper: 2015 shaping up like 1999
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Dec 23, 10:37AM CST
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: PowerShares QQQ, iShares Morningstar Large-Cap ETF, Southwest Airlines and Avago Technologies
PR Newswire - Tue Dec 23, 8:30AM CST
Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include the PowerShares QQQ (Nasdaq:QQQ-Free Report), iShares Morningstar Large-Cap ETF (AMEX:JKD-Free Report), Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV-Free Report) and Avago Technologies Limited (Nasdaq:AVGO-Free Report).
LUV: 46.36 (+0.01), JKD: 124.23 (+1.12)
