While she’s known for her bearish calls, including her prescient prediction of the banking crisis that hit the U.S. in 2008, analyst Meredith Whitney says she’s seeing “incredible opportunities” for investors right now. “Fundamentals are not playing into valuations now at all,” Whitney says, according to CNBC. “You’ve got great companies that are trading horribly, [...]
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Bogle Talks Stocks, Munis, and The Fed
June 7, 2011
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In a wide-ranging recent interview with Fox Business News, Vanguard founder John Bogle says it’s reasonable to expect stocks to return about 7% to 8% per year in this decade, and stresses that investors should avoid the temptation to speculate in the stock market. “Reasonable expectations are that we will have returns of 7-8% in [...]
Read moreWhitney Sounding Not-So-Gloomy
March 22, 2011
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Meredith Whitney — the banking analyst who was one of the few to warn of the financial crisis ahead of time, and who has maintained a pretty gloomy outlook since the crisis — is now seeing some positive signs in the economy. Whitney tells Maria Bartiromo in an interview for USAToday that she thinks defaults [...]
Read moreSonders vs. Whitney on Market’s Current Valuation
November 17, 2009
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Banking analyst Meredith Whitney rattled the markets yesterday when she told CNBC that the U.S. is likely to fall back into recession next year, and said stocks are overvalued. “I haven’t been this bearish in a year,” said Whitney. “I look at the board and every single stock from Tiffany to Bank of America to [...]
Read moreWhitney, Krugman: Government Needs to Do More
October 2, 2009
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While the economy has been showing signs of life in recent months and the stock market is now more than 50% off its March low, two top economic minds are saying that we’re far from out of the woods. In an Op-Ed piece for The Wall Street Journal today, Meredith Whitney — the banking analyst [...]
Read moreThey Saw The Trouble Coming — And Some See More Ahead
December 23, 2008
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Kiplinger’s takes a look this week at nine people who “called it right” in predicting the credit crisis and market collapse, and asks what they see coming for the year ahead. Some — like Jeremy Grantham, Robert Rodriguez, and Nouriel Roubini — are people whose opinions we’ve detailed in past posts, but here’s a look [...]
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