A recent article in Institutional Investor discusses the plight of short-sellers in the now nine-year bull market which, the article says, “is punishing these defiant minority investors to the point…
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Mark Hulbert on the Reality of Buybacks
The new tax legislation will encourage companies to repatriate much of the cash they now hold outside the U.S., much of which could find its way to stock repurchases, writes…
Stock Market Lessons Learned in 2017
By John Reese (@guruinvestor) — Over the past twelve months, we’ve seen the bull market continue to trudge ahead with highs in many U.S. indexes and growth in various sectors…
Is There a Red Flag in Front of this Bull?
This May marks the one-year anniversary of the record high in U.S. stocks, but don’t break out the champagne just yet. This milestone is sparking some concern as to whether the other shoe is about…
Understanding the Seven Phases of Bull Markets and Why this Bull Market is Still Alive
Ron Meisels, founder and president of the independent research firm Phases & Cycles, says that we are in a defined pause in a bull market that will resume late this…
Fisher: Market Correction Mirroring 1997. Bull Will Resume.
Ken Fisher, Fisher Investments chairman & CEO, says this correction looks very similar to that of 1997, which was referred to as the Asian Contagion. Like then, this correction has…
Bull Runs: How they Happen
Money magazine recently offered some interesting data on the relationship between the economy and the stock market. In the chart below, you can see how the market, on average, has…