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Posted
Oct 06 2008, 10:28 AM
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Kim Peterson
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I wonder how much influence Jim Cramer has on the markets. The host of CNBC's "Mad Money" went on the Today show Monday and told investors to get out.
"Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week," he said. "I do not believe that you should risk those assets in the stock market right now.”
Cramer is predicting that the market could fall by as much as 20%.
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Posted
Sep 16 2008, 05:46 PM
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Jon Markman
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Extraordinary events are piling up on Wall Street so fast, it's hard to know where to focus. Forgetting the prospective bailout of AIG for a moment, since every media outlet is on that one, the most shocking development of the day for me is news that a $60 billion money market fund "broke the buck" on Monday due to losses in Lehman Brothers paper that it held. So much for the safety of "cash".
The Reserve Primary Money Fund (RPFXX) has become the first money-market fund in more than a decade to lose money because its board was forced to write down $785 million worth of LEH debt to zero. The fund reportedly
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Sep 18 2009, 04:08 PM
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InvestorPlace
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This article is by InvestorPlace's Michael Shulman.
There are anywhere between one and 100 reasons the market could fall in October. Some of these reasons are technical; some are fundamental. Bing: More on Stock Market Crashes
Here are five, all of which are worth careful consideration.
#1 -- The Consumer is Down and Out
The driver of the U.S. economy is the consumer -- consumer spending accounts for 70% of the nation's GDP. And the consumer is down and out.
Americans have lost 40% of their wealth in the past two years. More than $4 trillion in credit lines will have vanished by year-end. The real unemployment rate (unemployed, discouraged and part-time workers wanting full-time work) is roughly 20%; and weekly work hours and wages are stagnant. In short, most consumers have no extra income to spend.
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Posted
Sep 29 2008, 06:36 PM
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admin
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This post is by MSN Money columnist Michael Brush:
Unless you’ve been in the markets for over two decades, you’ve never seen anything like the one-day wipeout that took major indices down a gut wrenching 9% Monday. The last time things got this ugly was during the market crash on Oct. 19, 1987.
So like a lot of people, you may be dazed and confused -- and wondering what to do with your stock portfolio or even your money in the bank.
Seasoned money managers and market experts I spoke with after the close Monday expect a financial rescue plan to be approved by the end of the week. Between now and then
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Posted
Nov 20 2008, 04:46 AM
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Charley Blaine
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Note: This post has been updated to account for Thursday's close.
I was fairly sure a couple of weeks ago that the market was putting in a bottom. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index told me so.
I was so confident that a bottom was forming that I even commissioned a graphic showing why. Now, I'm worried about how far much farther the market could fall. The S&P 500 tells me so.
Here's why.
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Posted
Mar 10 2009, 11:55 AM
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Andrew Horowitz
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 Over the past several weeks, there has been a growing chorus of negativity coming from all directions. It always concerns me when I hear everyone singing the same tune. For instance, investing in gold recently was said to be the only way to protect your portfolio from this economic calamity. Hard assets were on everyone's minds and pundits were suggesting to buy until it hurt. Well, that was $80 an ounce or so ago and now gold seems to have lost its shine.
So, how can you tell when we are seeing a market top or bottom? That is next to impossible, but one way is to separate emotions from rationale and consider objectively how many are calling for a top or a bottom. If you recall, the ideas of a bottom have been all but squashed in favor of a Dow 5,000 or an S&P 500 at 500. But just last weekend, it was clear that the level of bearishness hit a high chord. Here is why...
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Posted
May 29 2009, 02:52 PM
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Louis Navellier
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President Obama's nomination of federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter heralds yet another victory for gun-makers. Yes, you read that right.
Let me explain.
While most investors have been rightly focused on the crisis in the markets and economy lately, some Americans have been focusing on other political issues, namely the Second Amendment.
They wonder, will the Obama Administration and new Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor put the right to bear arms in jeopardy? Clearly, many think so, as evidenced by an increase in gun sales and an associated rally in gun stocks.
Indeed, two of my favorite gun stocks, Sturm Ruger & Co. (RGR) and Smith & Wesson (SWHC), rallied Thursday on the news of Sotomayor's nomination. But it's not just Sotomayor's nomination that has been lifting the gun-makers. The recession has helped, too
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Posted
May 22 2009, 10:42 AM
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Kim Peterson
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 It's clear that Jim Cramer is an entertainer. But as a stock picker, is he worth listening to?
Two finance professors at Northeastern University decided to find out, NPR reports. And so they watched "Mad Money" for years, ignoring all the boo-yahs, the sweat, the breaking-glass sound effects and the exclamation points. What they did pay attention to were his recommendations. The professors created an imaginary investment account. When Cramer recommended buying a stock, they added that name to the portfolio. When he said to sell, they did.
So what happened?
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Posted
Mar 27 2008, 12:46 AM
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Jon Markman
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If it seems like you are paying more for your cereal, beer and pizza lately, shake your fist in the direction of Pakistan, Uganda and Argentina, because a weird confluence of international events are combining to slash the world supply of wheat and boost prices. The downside of globalization is that a crop failure 10,000 miles away can lead to pricier brewskis here.
It's actually a lot more serious than that. The New Scientist magazine reports that a wheat disease that started in central Africa actually threatens to destroy most of the world wheat crop, leaving millions to starve. A fungus called Ug99 has already spread from Africa to Iran and is bearing down on Pakistan, according to the report. This is bad news because Pakistan and Punjab wheat is extremely important to the entire food chain of the densely populous plains of South Asia.
According to reports, scientists hope to slow the spread of Ug99 by spraying new forms of fungicide but the only real firebreak will come when agronomists are able to create Ug99-resistant strains of wheat over the next few years. The disease, which is said to be a super-strong strain of black stem rust, first came to light in Uganda in 1999 and has since ruined crops in Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen. Now winds are expected to take the spores to Egypt, Turkey, Syria and Iran. Chinese scientists are said to be on a crash program to develop Ug99-resistant wheat strains before the disease ravages its already weakened croplands.
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Posted
Feb 10 2008, 11:54 PM
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Jon Markman
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Corn-based ethanol production is sure to go down as one of the greatest mistakes ever in U.S. energy policy, yet it is so heavily embedded in election-year politics it just won't go away.
The government's recent move to boost ethanol production -- embedded in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 -- panders to Midwestern and Southern farm-state electorates that are influential in presidential races, yet will end up costing the nation billions more than it purports to save.
I wrote about this scam back in October in a column titled, "Shuck the ethanol and let solar shine," but apparently for some reason my expression of outrage was not enough to prevent Congress from passing a law in late December that will cost taxpayers as much as $550 billion over the next four years.
Now scientists have finally completed research that shows ethanol is not only bad business but also bad for the environment. According to news reports, the latest issue of Science magazine highlights studies showing that biofuels produce more greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels when all of their production inputs are accounted for.
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