Ken Fisher says that, with the bull market maturing, investors can make hay by keying on star CEOs. “Usually the first third of a bull market is led by stocks bouncing back from getting crushed in the prior bear,” Fisher writes in his latest Forbes column. “But the last two-thirds of bulls are usually led [...]
Read more
Tag Archives: Ken Fisher
Fisher Boosts Japan Exposure, Calls Out Media
March 21, 2011
0 Comments
Ken Fisher says he’s increased his exposure to Japan in the wake of the recent crisis — and he says the media is “fanning the hysteria” surrounding the nuclear situation there. Fisher tells Advisor One that he has “increased weight in Japan and picked up some other things, mostly technology, on the presumption that things [...]
Read moreFisher Welcomes Gridlock, Likes Emerging Market Airlines
December 2, 2010
0 Comments
With the mid-term elections in the rear-view mirror, Kenneth Fisher says gridlock should be upon us — and that’s a good thing for stocks. “We haven’t had a negative stock market return in either the 6 or 12 months following a midterm election since World War II,” Fisher writes in his latest Forbes column. “It’s [...]
Read moreFisher: Election Results Bullish for Stocks
November 3, 2010
0 Comments
Ken Fisher thinks the mid-term elections have laid the groundwork for a significant jump in stocks. “Markets don’t like big sweeping actions,” Fisher told Bloomberg. “Right now, every politician is chirping and burping and carrying on. It’s been in the interest of the Republicans running for office to talk down the economy. That goes away [...]
Read moreFisher on QE2: Don’t Do It
October 18, 2010
3 Comments
Top money manager Kenneth Fisher says the Federal Reserve should not engage in another round of quantitative easing. “There’s no reason for the United States to be doing quantitative easing,” Fisher says, according to Bloomberg. “It increases risk aversion for U.S. stocks. It’s got a slight tendency to want to motivate you to underweight U.S. [...]
Read moreFisher: Focus on Present Opportunities, Not Fears of the Past
September 21, 2010
0 Comments
Kenneth Fisher says investors continue to be fixated on the problems of the recent past, which is preventing them from seeing opportunities in the present. “Generally, one thing I’ve learned is that when people are adequately fixated on the negative, pessimistic, skeptic and snarky; to be in such a mode as to be chewing the [...]
Read moreFisher: Second Leg of Bull Coming
August 31, 2010
0 Comments
Kenneth Fisher says the current correction is “the most textbook perfect” one he’s seen in 12 years, and says the second leg of a bull market is coming. Fisher writes in his latest Forbes column that the last correction that was this textbook was the 1998 correction, which was fueled by the Asian contagion, the [...]
Read moreFisher Sees Bullish Signs
April 29, 2010
0 Comments
In his latest Forbes column, Ken Fisher reiterates his bullish stance on stocks, and offers several reasons why he’s optimistic. Among Fisher’s bullish points: “The GDP-weighted global yield curve (spread between long-term and short-term government interest rates) is steeper than it has been since the 1960s.” That, he says, means increased future lending for banks, [...]
Read moreFisher on which Sectors to Target
January 12, 2010
0 Comments
In an interview with Bloomberg, Kenneth Fisher says that he’s high on some chemical stocks right now, for both fundamental and cyclical reasons. Fisher says the stocks that usually lead early in a bull market are those that fared well in the first half of the preceding bear market, but then got hammered in the [...]
Read moreFisher Sees “Well Above Average” Returns for 2010
December 31, 2009
0 Comments
In his latest Forbes column, Ken Fisher says that he thinks stocks will continue to produce above average returns in 2010, though the gains won’t be as great as they’ve been in 2009. Fisher says the huge ’09 rebound “was a textbook case of how markets are supposed to react to big bear markets and [...]
Read more
