Author and Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel says he expects the stock market to remain volatile, but says he thinks stocks are offering “extraordinary” long-term values. Siegel tells CNBC that stocks are “the asset class to be in” given those values, which are setting stocks up for “a very good decade … in fact, a very [...]
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Focus on Dividends, Siegel Says
August 25, 2011
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Wharton professor and author Jeremy Siegel says dividend-paying stocks — not Treasury bills, which he says are back in “bubble” territory — are the place investors should look for yield. “Despite the slow growth over the past decade, U.S. corporations, as typified by those in the S&P 500 Index, have been making record profits by [...]
Read moreSiegel Sees “Irresistible Values”; Says This Isn’t Another 2008
August 15, 2011
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Author and Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel says the current low valuations in the market make it unlikely that we’ll see another decade of meager returns for stocks, like we did after the tech bubble burst in 2000. ”It’s certainly scary in the short run, but I think there are really irresistible values here in the [...]
Read moreSiegel: Market Cheap, But Could Get Cheaper
August 5, 2011
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Author and Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel says he thinks the stock market is selling at an “extraordinarily low” valuation, but that economic fears could continue to push it down further in the short term. Siegel tells CNBC that he thinks the current turmoil is more like the correction that hit in April 2010 than it [...]
Read moreSiegel and Shiller Debate the Debt Conundrum
July 28, 2011
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How should the U.S. go about cleaning up its debt mess? In a recent interview with MarketWatch, two of the world’s top economic minds — Professor Jeremy Siegel of Wharton and Professor Robert Shiller of Yale — offered their takes. Siegel says Medicare is the big issue the government needs to address, and he doesn’t [...]
Read moreStocks for the Long Run?
July 20, 2011
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Are stocks the best bet for the long haul? In a paper to be published in the Journal of Finance, two researchers question the long-held investing assertion. “There have been periods in which stocks underperformed [Treasury] bonds and bills over 30 years, [and] 40-year periods in which stocks barely [outperformed] bonds,” Lubos Pastor of the [...]
Read moreSiegel: Stocks Cheap; Fed Needs to Do a Bit More for Economy
July 13, 2011
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Wharton Professor and author Jeremy Siegel says stocks remain “so cheap”, but he thinks the Federal Reserve needs to do a bit more to help the economy work through its recent soft patch. Siegel tells Bloomberg that he’s not talking about another round of quantitative easing, but instead other measures that would encourage banks to [...]
Read moreSiegel on “The Growth Trap”
July 6, 2011
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While many investors get enamored with stocks of fast-growing companies, Wharton Professor and author Jeremy Siegel says that too often such investors get lured into the “growth trap”. “The growth trap is the belief by investors that they should buy the companies that have the fastest earnings growth,” Siegel tells The Washington Post. “The trap [...]
Read moreSiegel: Market Still Cheap — Very Cheap
June 29, 2011
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Wharton Professor and author Jeremy Siegel says stocks are more attractively priced than they’ve ever been during ultra-low interest rate periods, and says investors looking for yield should turn to high-dividend-paying stocks. Price-to-earnings ratios around the world are reasonable and the quality of earnings is extraordinarily high, Siegel said at a Canadian Imperial Bank of [...]
Read moreThe Shiller P/E: In Need of a Revision?
April 11, 2011
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Does the “Shiller P/E” need a revamp? Some well-known strategists say yes, but others — including Yale Economist Robert Shiller himself — say no. While most strategists and publications use shorter-term earnings in developing price/earnings ratios, the Shiller P/E — also known as the 10-year P/E — compares a company’s average earnings over the past [...]
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