A recent article in Barron’s reports that while a flattening yield curve is “no reason to bail out of stocks,” bond yields could provide investors with “a sell signal in…
Tag: Bear Market
Hedge Funds Waiting for the Next Bear Market
“No one is more eager for the next bear market than long-short hedge funds,” reports a recent Bloomberg article. These funds, the article explains, are not designed to keep up…
Shiller: Another Bear Market Could Happen
The kind of panic that ensure thirty years ago, on October 19th, 1987, could happen again. This according to Yale professor Robert Shiller in his recent New York Times article. While…
In a High Market, Investors Should Prepare for a Downturn
A recent article by Jeff Sommer of The New York Times poses the question: “Is this the top of the market? Is it time to sell?” “Simply put,” writes Sommer,…
George Soros is Feeding the Bear
In recent years, 85-year-old billionaire George Soros hasn’t done much investing of his own. He has instead focused on public philanthropy and public policy (and is a large contributor to…
Sonders: Market Most Likely in Post-Echo Bull Phase
Liz Ann Sonders, chief strategist for Charles Schwab, outlines the four phases of the stock market over a full market cycle. Since 1960, the market can be seen following the…
We May Be More Than Half through A Bear Market
Mark Hulbert writes in MarkWatch: “not infrequently, a bear-market declaration often amounts to little more than closing the barn door after the horses have left.” A bear market is typically…
A Flat 2015 is Not Predictive of Coming Bear or Bull Market
Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg columnist and founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, points out that 2015 has been essentially flat and, looking to history, concludes: “by itself, a flat market does not…
Ramsey Predicts 20-25% Bear Market
Doug Ramsey, CIO of Leuthold Weeden Capital Management, predicts a bear market. Although he expressed similar concerns in August, his past calls have been remarkably accurate and not consistently bearish.…
Jim Rogers Sees A Global Bear Market Coming
Jim Rogers, known for the 4,200% gain he and partner George Soros secured over a decade in the 1970s, told a Barron’s interviewer that he sees a significant bear…