WEEKEND INVESTOR
JULY 2, 2011.
Stock Picking Gets Trickier .
By BEN LEVISOHN
A year ago, stocks were moving in such unison that traditional fund managers couldn’t hope to beat the market. Now stocks are trading much more on their fundamentals—but m…
The trend in initial claims still appears to be favorable compared to last year.
But when you look at the new claims as a percentage of those eligible to file, the difference is insignificant. The seasonal low in claims is right now. As seasonal in…
June 8, 2011
Yesterday I featured a commentary on NYSE Margin Debt and the S&P 500 that illustrated the growth of margin debt since 1995 and the correlation with market peaks. After it appeared, Lance Roberts, General Partner & CEO of Streettalk A…
May 20, 2011 weekly update
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) declined to 5.3 from last week’s 6.4. This is the fourth consecutive week of decline from the 11-month interim high of 7.8 for the week endi…
May 17, 2011 Analysis from Chris Kimble
Master market technician Chris Kimble looks at the NYSE Composite Index from both a daily and a weekly perspective. It’s time for a major test, he suggests, and that goes for several other major indexes as w…
May 13, 2011 weekly update
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) declined to 6.4 from last week’s 6.6. This is the third week of fractional decline from the 11-month interim high of 7.7 for the week ending…
May 6, 2011 weekly update
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) declined to 6.7 from last week’s 7.5. This is the second week of fractional decline from the 11-month interim high of 7.7 for the week ending…
April 29, 2011 weekly update
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) declined fractionally to 7.5 from last week’s eleven-month high of 7.7.
The Published Record
The published ECRI WLI growth metric h…
“Mathematical analysis of flock dynamics show how each starling’s movement is influenced by every other starling, and vice versa. It doesn’t matter how large a flock is, or if two birds are on opposite sides. It’s as if every individual is connec…
A number of pundits noted that in the Fed’s recent data dump about its emergency operations during the 2008 “episode”, the Fed took stocks as…
