On investing, markets and personal finance
Larry MacDonald
Nov
20
The rebound off market bottoms is usually explosive for small caps. Their average gain in the year following the past seven bear markets surpassed 30%, writes Viking Capital CEO John Sartz in the Nov. 21 edition of Investor’s Digest of Canada.
Nov
18
Nov
17
Nortel Networks doomed? Why then the 35% rally on Nov. 13? Maybe some people think Nortel has a future – or at least that its shares will be more readily embraced when the global flight from risky assets attenuates?
Markets rallied vigorously on Thursday, Nov. 13, for no other reason than they were testing their lows of Oct. 10. There is a belief among many traders and technical analysts that bear market bottoms retest their lows before beginning a sustained rally, and this belief was what largely caused the major ...
Nov
13
Infrastructure is countercyclical and riding secular trends in both developing and developed countries. Other reasons to invest also exist. For more details, read on.
At least one company is doing well as the economy crumbles. National Lampoon Inc., the purveyor of humor, reported a 1900% increase in revenues for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending July 31. The third quarter was its first profitable quarter ever and the fourth quarter was even ...
For the first time in decades, the S&P 500 is trading at fair value, according to several sources including the Financial Times of London. That is to say, the cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio (popularized by Robert Shiller) has dropped to its long-run average. So too the Q ratio (invented by economist ...
