From DShort.com It's time again for the weekend update of our "Real" Mega-bears, an inflation-adjusted overlay of three secular bear markets. It aligns the current S&P 500 from the top of the Tech... The nominal all-time high in the index occurred in October 2007, but when we adjust for inflation, the "real" all-time high for the S&P 500 occurred in March 2000. Click For Full Size
CNBC: China Selling Accelerates, Stocks Tumble 6.7% Chinese stocks headed for their largest monthly loss in 10 months, tumbling again on worries about weak market conditions and the extent of the recent rally.
(Some might say economic "realities," but who am I to question the Great Dow?) CNBC World Bank Sees Most Economies in Deeper Slump The World Bank warned on Monday prospects for the global economy...slumps, unemployment rises and investors pull capital from the world’s largest energy exporter, the World Bank said today. The lender also forecast a 2.9 percent contraction in the global economy...
In real, inflation-adjusted dollars Click for full size. Story and image credit: Dshort.com Dshort writes: Here's a the first chart in new series that focuses exclusively on the S&P...reinvested, the S&P Composite regained the 1929 peak after 7.25 years. Today's dividend advantage is less than half of what it was over the equivalent 19-month period beginning in October 1929.
With all the talk of the recession ending, especially now with leading indicators used by some of the most respected economic forecasting firms, such as ECRI, suggesting a definite recovery in the US economy...the trough-to-peak rise in the 1948-49 recession of 4.5 points, a postwar record. The question on everyone's mind is: How high will the unemployment rate go? Current trends are not encouraging...
New York Times Bear Market Rally: What Does It Mean? The Dow Jones industrial average gained 246 points on Thursday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index has now risen more than 25 percent since...now. And remember that buying at the very bottom isn’t your goal, since you can’t know when the market has hit the bottom until after the fact. Even if you nail the low, you may not make any money...
CNBC: US Economy Could Recover Much Sooner Than Expected You've heard all the gloom and doom about this recession. Now here's some good news: the economic recovery could happen much sooner—and be much...world, it is highly unlikely that the February result represents the start of a turnaround in demand for U.S. goods abroad ,” Joshua Shapiro, chief United States economist at MFR, wrote in a note..
From 247WallStreet Posted: April 6, 2009 at 5:09 am By Douglas A. McIntyre The assumption is that the earnings for the first quarter from most companies in the S&P 500 will be atrocious. That can be...the resistance to spending on the most fundamental building blocks of industrial growth will be perceived as crippled. If Dow’s revenues are below expectations, industrial activity is probably moribund
