After the huge rally in stocks over the past six months, the big question for investors is, can it continue? Fortune recently posed that question to several successful strategists, and…
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O'Shaughnessy: Asset Allocation Changes Coming at Terrible Time
With stocks struggling through a terrible bear market over the past two years, investors have taken huge sums of money out of stocks and poured money into bonds — a…
J. Zweig & Taleb on Where Investors Go Wrong
Consuelo Mack has two very interesting interviews on WealthTrack this week, talking investing and psychology with both Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig and Black Swan author Nassim Taleb. Zweig,…
Fisher: Fossil Fuels Not Going Anywhere
In his latest Forbes column, Kenneth Fisher says that — despite the push for renewable fuel sources such as wind power — fossil fuels will be in heavy demand for…
Guru Strategy Rating Changes: Google Slides, S.A. Banks Rise
Each week, I take a look at which stocks my Validea.com Guru Strategy computer models have newfound interest in, and which they have soured on. Here’s a look at some…
After Beating the Bear & the Bull, Top Newsletters Think "Big"
Of all the newsletters tracked by Hulbert Financial Digest, only 13 beat the market during both the bear market that started in 2007 and the bullish period that started this…
The Square-Root Recovery?
Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says it’s becoming less likely that we’ll get a “W” recovery, and more likely that we’ll see a “square-root” recovery — one…
Barron's: Top Strategists Remain Mildly Bullish
In its latest survey of top investment managers, Barron’s found that, on average, most of the managers are expecting the market’s ascent to slow significantly this fall, though they remain…
Six Lessons from the Bear Market
In their latest Kiplinger’s column, Whitney Tilson and John Heins — who were well ahead of the curve on the housing and financial meltdown last year — use their own…
Gross: Time to Grow Up
In his latest Investment Outlook, PIMCO’s Bill Gross calls on “children of the bull market” to grow up, and goes a bit deeper into the concept of the “new normal”…