There have been many seers in the history of the stock market, from Roger Babson who called the 1929 crash to Elaine Garzarelli who predicted 1987’s Black Monday. This generation’s…
Tag: Market Predictions
Forget 2023 Predictions
‘Tis the season for 2023 forecasts on Wall Street, but it’s nearly impossible to accurately predict what the markets will do in the next six months or year, and the…
What To Do When You Predict What Stocks Will Do
When the Labor Department revealed that the CPI rose 8.2% in September, almost anyone could have predicted that stocks would plummet the next day. And while they did exactly that…
Blackstone’s Ten Surprises Of 2022
Continuing Blackstone’s tradition of releasing their list of 10 surprises for the upcoming year, Vice Chairman Byron Wien and Chief Investment Strategist Joe Zidle issued their list on January 3rd…
Best Bets for 2022: Small Caps And Global Banks
Looking ahead to 2022, two investment strategists at trillion-dollar firms are betting on U.S. small cap stocks and global banks. The remarks, which came at the Forbes/SHOOK conference in Chicago,…
How Well Have Beta’s Predictions Aged?
The 1980’s were a critical era for gauging the capital asset pricing model’s—or CAPM’s—validity, posits a post on the CFA Institute Blog. Greater data access and expanded computing power in…
The Only 2021 Market Prediction You Should Not Ignore
While it is typical at the end of any year for “very smart people with access to the best data and vast resources at their disposal” to make predictions about…
The Stock Market Will Predict 2020 Presidential Winner
A study by LPL Financial shows that if the S&P 500 is up three months before election day, the incumbent party nearly always wins. This according to an article in…
Listening to “Armageddonist” Predictions Can Prove Costly
A recent MarketWatch article shares the findings of one industry executive who had reportedly had enough of end-of-days-like market predictions and did some calculations of his own. Michael Cembalest, chairman…
Gundlach Expects Trouble for U.S. Equities
In an interview with Finanz und Wirtschaft, DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach expressed concern for U.S. equities as a result of the levels of government and corporate debt, arguing that investors…