Yale economist Robert Shiller, who predicted the recent housing bust as well as the Internet bust earlier this decade, says that a meaningful recovery seems to have occurred in the housing market — but that we shouldn’t expect it to continue at the current rate. “It looks like a major turnaround,” Shiller, whose S&P Case-Shiller [...]
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Archive | September, 2009
Guru Strategy Rating Changes: CVS Falling, Honeywell Rising
September 29, 2009
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Each week, I take a look at which stocks my Validea.com Guru Strategy computer models have newfound interest in, and which they have soured on. Here’s a look at some of the stocks that my strategies have upgraded or downgraded today. Among the big-name movers: CVS Caremark and Honeywell International.
Read more“Foolish” Gardner: Learn from Others, Focus on Fundamentals
September 28, 2009
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Tom Gardner, co-founder and CEO of The Motley Fool, says in an interview with Forbes that two of the most important things an investor can do are being open to learning from other successful investors, and taking a long-term view of the stock market. Gardner, who founded The Motley Fool online community with his brother [...]
Read moreWells’ Paulsen: Six Reasons for Growth
September 28, 2009
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Wells Capital Management Chief Investment Strategist James Paulsen is sounding optimistic on the economy, and today explained to Bloomberg TV the reasons for his belief that the solid growth is on the way. Paulsen says that stimulus plans generally come with a significant lag time (as much as a year), and, because of that, much [...]
Read more’08 Plunge Gives Individual Investors Big “Small” Advantage
September 25, 2009
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One of the many impacts of last year’s market meltdown was the huge shakeup to stocks’ style box classifications. With most stocks losing a quarter to half of their value — and some of the largest companies being decimated — definitions for “large-cap”, “mid-cap”, and “small-cap” were turned on their heads. And, writes Investment News’ [...]
Read moreForester Trims Back, But Optimistic on Q3 Earnings
September 25, 2009
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Tom Forester, whose Forester Value Fund was the lone diversified stock fund to make money in 2008, is taking profits on some of his 2009 winners, but thinks third-quarter earnings season should be pretty solid because of the government’s massive stimulus efforts. According to Investment News, Forester — whose fund is lagging the S&P this [...]
Read moreMobius on “Frontier” Markets
September 24, 2009
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Mark Mobius, manager of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust says that emerging markets have a lot of room left to run, and that “frontier markets” — those in the very early stages of developing, like Vietnam, Romania, and Kenya — are “where it’s at”. Mobius tells the U.K.’s Telegraph TV that a big reason for [...]
Read moreDoll: “New Normal” Could Look Like an Older Normal
September 23, 2009
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In an interview with MarketWatch’s Chuck Jaffe, Blackrock Global Chief Investment Officer of Equities Bob Doll gives his take on what to expect from the economy and the markets as we move past the financial crisis and recession. The “new normal” Doll envisions isn’t as bleak as some have described, but it’s also not euphoric. [...]
Read moreGuru Strategy Rating Changes: Google Falls, UTX Rises
September 23, 2009
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Each week, I take a look at which stocks my Validea.com Guru Strategy computer models have newfound interest in, and which they have soured on. Here’s a look at some of the stocks that my strategies have upgraded or downgraded today. Among the big-name movers: Google and United Technologies.
Read moreFaber: Big Trouble Coming for U.S., but Buy Stocks Now
September 22, 2009
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Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report says that the U.S. is headed for major trouble in the long term because of the impending implosion of the dollar — but in the short term, he’s buying stocks, reports Yahoo! TechTicker. Faber, one of the few to see the credit crash coming, says that [...]
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