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 […]
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Sentiment Plunge A Bullish Sign, Hulbert Says
August 12, 2011 
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Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest says his index of newsletter sentiment has fallen as low as it did at the market bottom in 2009 — a bullish sign for investors. Hulbert says the average equity exposure among the newsletters is now -20%, meaning the newsletters are recommending a 20% short position in stocks. Given […]
Read moreHulbert: Fear Is Encouraging
May 15, 2009 0 Comments
In his latest column for MarketWatch, newsletter-watcher Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest makes an interesting observation about fear and contrarian investing, one that echoes the findings of one of the great gurus we follow, Martin Zweig. Writing about the recent Las Vegas Money Show, Hulbert says that sentiment among the conference’s presenters was decidedly […]
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