When you hear stats like the S&P 500 is up 10% for the year or the index has more than tripled off the 2009 low, it’s easy to take those…
Tag: Market Performance
Targets Trailing S&P 500 By Wide Margin
A recent article in Bloomberg reports that “strategists have been too cautious in estimating the speed of the recovery,” and that the S&P 500 is surpassing its projected level by…
Learning from Buffett and Others During Market Crises
By Justin J. Carbonneau As of this writing, the S&P 500 will have dropped close to 30% in less than 20 trading days. The decline is the fastest drop into…
U.S. Stocks Outperform the Rest of the World
U.S. equity shares are trading at their “highest premiums to international shares in years, reflecting bets among investors that the domestic economy will keep powering past its peers around the…
Beware of Stock Market Charts that Tell Half the Story
When viewing data charts intended to show that, historically, market declines have been worse than increases, investors should make sure they have the whole story before panicking. This according to…