One of the investing world’s pre-eminent contrarians, David Dreman, writes in Forbes that the U.S. is indeed in a depression — not a recession — but says it’s also a…
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Farrell Calls a Bottom (and Rips "Dr. Doom")
In his latest MarketWatch column, Paul Farrell takes Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini to task — and gives six reasons why he thinks the stock market has bottomed. Roubini, the New…
Whitman Finding Bargains through Graham & Dodd, with a Twist
The Financial Post of Canada takes an interesting look today at the Benjamin-Graham-esque approach that longtime market-beater Marty Whitman uses to pick value stocks. According to The Post’s Levi Folk,…
Gross: Investing "Revolution" Is On
In his April market commentary on PIMCO’s web site, bond guru Bill Gross says that we’ve entered a new world of economics and investing, one in which “there should be…
Stocks for The Long Run -- Riskier than Stocks for The Short Run?
In his latest column for The New York Times, Mark Hulbert highlights an interesting new study that examines the concept of long-term risk in the stock market. The study, performed…
Tilson Turns Bullish on a Few Financials
Whitney Tilson, whose calls about the housing bust, financial crisis, and huge government bailout have proved prescient over the past year, tells CNBC that after making a bundle shorting financial…
Top Timing Newsletter Turning Bullish
The Cabot Market Letter — one of the top-performing newsletters of the past decade — is moving back into stocks, seeing the odds as “increasingly good” that the market has…
Get into “The Glitch” -- 10 Top Scoring Price-to-Sales Stocks
The Price-to-Sales ratio (PSR) is a measure used by many of the Guru Strategies I run on Validea.com as a way to find undervalued stocks. The ratio, which is simply…
Crisis Predictors Offer Advice
Three of the financial minds who warned of the current credit crisis — Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch’s Richard Bernstein, PIMCO’s Paul McCulley, and author and former Wall Streeter Richard…
What to Expect from Here
How quickly will stocks rebound when the current bear market ends (if it hasn’t already done so)? The New York Times’ Paul Lim offers some interesting data on that subject…