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by Nick Timiraos Nationwide, international buyers spent $82.5 billion on residential real estate in the 12-month period that ended in March, according to the National…
International Business TimesIPO drought hits US after Facebook debacleMyFox PhoenixIn the aftermath of Facebook Inc.'s botched trading debut, the IPO market has gone three weeks without an offering, the longest drought in five months. It is the slo…
While the mainstream media was reporting that jobless claims were steady last week, the real picture was more nuanced. The media reports only the seasonally…
For once, what I found most interesting about yesterday wasn’t the charts. It was the push that suddenly materialized from the Fed to assure the market that the stimulus guns were ready, and loaded for bear. I found that quite unusual, because th…
Bloomberg got it partly right when taking the gloomy view it reported that, “Retail sales in the U.S. unexpectedly stagnated in August as a lack of employment…
From the Christian Science Monitor…
Some years back, Yale Professor Robert Shiller produced a long-run nominal home price index for the U.S. by fusing together data that had been gathered from a number of historical archives.
Shiller then adjuste…
Anytime the broad stock market indexes (a la Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq ) rally more than 80% in two-year span it shoud be concerning. I think the last time this happened was in the 1930s. So there is plenty of fodder for the bears who think st…
Hussman was saying the same thing back when we hit the last Yogi-Called Market Top.
From Hussman’s weekly report:
“While the S&P 500 has essentially gone nowhere since early January, the present overvalued, overbought and overbullish conditions, coup…
