Daily Blitz
The following is an excerpt from Sunlen Miller | September 20, 2012 | Yahoo.com |
More than 30 Senate Republicans took to the Senate floor this morning in back-to-back coordinated speeches with attacks aimed at President Obama and the Democratically-led Senate.
The speeches were one part airing of grievances, one part campaign ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from John Melloy | December 16, 2011 | CNBC.com |
A decade of zero price gains, two busted bubbles, and successive credit crises have left stock investors as disillusioned as they were at the end of the 1970s, but that could set the stage for a ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Sam Stovall, S&P Capital IQ, chief equity strategist, The Outlook | December 19, 2012 | msnbc.com |
One approach that we believe will never go out of style -- regardless of tax policy -- is the focus on reasonably priced quality.
Whatever the conclusion of the ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Ivan Hoff | December 4, 2011 | Ivanhoff.com
1. Stock prices run in cycles. Periods of re-pricing are usually quick and powerful and then they are followed by trendless consolidation.
2. Stocks are very highly correlated during drastic selloffs and during the initial stage of the ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from ADAM LEVIN | July 25, 2012 | abcnews.go.com |
During the endless hearings leading up to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, which has its two-year anniversary this week, and an even more taxing series of hearings defending its existence, Elizabeth Warren, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Lindsey Bell | November 7, 2011 | thestreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Just as some European countries combine capitalism and socialism -- called the third way -- investors would do well to find a new strategy that combines long-term and short-term trading strategies.
This year has ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Meena Krishnamsetty | September 24, 2012 | Smartmoney.com |
Equity hedge funds usually hedge around 50% of their long exposure. It just doesn't make sense to compare them to the S&P 500 Index SPX +1.15% , which is 100% long. So we came up with ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Sam Mamudi | December 10, 2012 | Barrons.com |
One of the anomalies of the past few years has been record corporate profits in the midst of more general economic gloom. But one engine of the boom may have finally sputtered out.
Falling interest rates have ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Tiernan Ray | August 9, 2012 | Barrons.com |
As I mentioned this morning, Stifel Nicolaus‘s Aaron Rakers started coverage of Apple (AAPL) today with a Buy rating and an $825 price target, writing that the company’s “off-balance-sheet” investments suggest business in coming months could ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from BARBARA ORTUTAY | Jul 13, 2012 | Yahoo.com |
NEW YORK (AP) — With new public stock offerings for guitar maker Fender and travel booking website Kayak on deck next week, there are signs demand is starting to grow for IPOs after a five-week freeze ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Leah Schnurr | March 5, 2013 | Reuters.com |
(Reuters) - Market professionals sometimes deride it as a relic, deeply flawed in its structure, useful mostly as the man-on-the-street's window on the stock market.
But the old man of Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jill Schlesinger | March 9, 2012 | CBSNews.com |
(MoneyWatch) The modern gift for a third anniversary is crystal and glass, which seems appropriate for today's celebration of the bull market in stocks. Despite doubling over the course of three years, the anniversary of the ... Read More
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