Should you “sell in May and go away,” as the old investing adage says? Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says not so fast. In commentary on Schwab’s site, Sonders says that it’s true that the market has historically performed better during November-April period than it has during the May-October period. From May [...]
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Sonders on How to Grow without Stimulus
May 3, 2012
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Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says that she expects “muddle-through” economic growth to continue, but she thinks the housing market has bottomed and says the stock market’s longer-term trend should be upward. “The bias is up, probably with a wider range and little bit more volatility than we enjoyed in the first [...]
Read moreSonders: Sentiment Picture Hasn’t Dented Bullish View
April 5, 2012
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Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says that while a rise in investor sentiment has made the market more vulnerable to bad news in the short term, she remains optimistic on stocks for the longer term. “My optimism in the medium-to-long-term has not been dented by the latest sentiment readings,” Sonders says in [...]
Read moreSonders: No QE3, No Problem
March 14, 2012
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The Federal Reserve didn’t give any indications after its last meeting that it will be undertaking a third round of quantitative easing, and Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says that’s good news. “Personally, I disagree with the many who feel the only prop under this very strong market has been quantitative easing,” [...]
Read moreSonders Likes Cyclicals, A Bit Wary of Defensive Sectors
March 2, 2012
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Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says she doesn’t think earnings forecasts are too high for 2012, and says investors should not be overexposed to defensive areas of the market that fared well last year. Sonders tells CNBC in the video below that she likes technology stocks, and that tech stocks as a [...]
Read moreSonders: Recovery Becoming Self-Sustaining
February 17, 2012
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Charles Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders, whose calls on the start and end of the Great Recession proved very accurate, says she thinks the U.S. economy is entering the second phase of its recovery, with the recovery becoming self-sustaining. “I don’t want to say we’re off to the races again, because I don’t think we’re going [...]
Read moreSonders Sees Employment Gains Continuing
February 6, 2012
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Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says the recent unemployment data was “pretty close to great”, and sees job growth continuing to be strong in the coming months. Sonders tells CBS This Morning that the January Labor Department report showed “strength across the board”, and she says most leading indicators suggest strong job [...]
Read moreSonders Says Bottom “Largely In” for Housing
January 25, 2012
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Charles Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders has made some very prescient calls on the economy and housing in recent years, and now she says that the much-maligned housing market may have finally hit bottom. “It’s time for a fresh look at housing. My conviction level does not match that in 2006, but I do think the [...]
Read moreSonders: Optimistic Despite “Cacophony of Naysayers”
January 18, 2012
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While many continue to worry that the European debt crisis will topple the U.S. stock market, Liz Ann Sonders — whose calls on the start and end of the Great Recession were remarkably accurate — is a good deal more upbeat. “There continues to be a cacophony of naysayers, but we have remained optimistic that [...]
Read moreSonders Sees U.S. Stocks Outperforming in 2012
December 15, 2011
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Charles Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders, whose economic predictions have been very accurate over the past several years, says she expects the U.S. to continue to slowly grow in 2012 and the stock market to revert to a more normal environment. Sonders tells MarketWatch she thinks volatility and correlations will decline in the coming year, which [...]
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