Mark Hulbert: How not to react to Supreme Court’s ruling
Think you know how insurers’ stocks will react to the Supreme Court’s decision on the health-care law? You may want to think again, writes Mark Hulbert.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Placing your bets for 2012’s second half
Hoping for a better second half of 2012? That’s certainly understandable, since the Dow so far this year has been a below-average performer. But hope is not a strategy.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Has a major bear market in gold begun?
Might gold’s continual failure to respond to positive sentiment conditions mean that bullion has entered into a major bear market? That possibility needs to be taken seriously.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Shorter is better when it comes to bonds
The top performing advisers are unwilling to go very far out the maturity spectrum in placing their bond fund exposure.
View ArticlePeter Brimelow: Bears surprisingly unrampant
Friday’s job numbers were badly received across the political spectrum, but as Peter Brimelow reports, key bearish letters are perhaps surprisingly unrampant.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Should you sell a dull market short?
A decline on light trading volume: That’s most definitely what we experienced on Monday and, according to the conventional wisdom, we should get ready for more — on both counts. But is that wisdom...
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Insiders betting on a correction
One thing that’s far more worrisome than the to-be-expected light summer trading volume is the recently bearish behavior of corporate insiders, writes Mark Hulbert.
View ArticlePeter Brimelow: Problems, but no panic
Stocks’ slide continues, but the bears are still unrampant, and key market timers are sticking with their strategies, Peter Brimelow writes.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Ignore the news headlines!
It’s been nearly one year since the unthinkable happened: The U.S. government’s credit rating was downgraded. Mark Hulbert looks at what we’ve learned in the intervening 12 months.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Great Woman theory of history a bad bet
Yahoo, with a brand-new chief executive, is suddenly worth $1.2 billion more? Mark Hulbert is doubtful.
View ArticlePeter Brimelow: Buyouts boost volatile medical tech sector
An investment letter that lives dangerously is currently living well, writes Peter Brimelow.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Get ready for more days like Monday
Monday’s triple-digit Dow decline was not an aberration. On the contrary, writes Mark Hulbert, the market will not be able to mount a sustainable rally until the Wall of Worry gets rebuilt.
View ArticlePeter Brimelow: Is Turnaround now at a turnaround?
George Putnam’s volatile Turnaround letter may be fluctuating upward. Peter Brimelow explains.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Facebook shares still way overvalued
There’s nothing in Facebook’s latest earnings report to suggest that a fair value estimate for the stock of $13.80 needs major revision, writes Mark Hulbert.
View ArticlePeter Brimelow: Is gold getting ready for take-off?
It wasn’t really very much — gold ended the week up just over 2% — but it’s really got people excited, reports Peter Brimelow.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Watch the Olympics to be better investors
What does the Olympics have to do with Wall Street? Plenty, writes Mark Hulbert, who says that in a roundabout way the Olympics can actually teach us to be better investors.
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Are we in a Kids’ Market?
Is it a “Kids’ Market”? That’s an important question to ask any time, since the answer has profound implications for whether you should seek out an older or younger investment adviser, writes Mark...
View ArticleMark Hulbert: Don’t get mad, get even!
Everyone’s up in arms in anger over the lunacy in how Wall Street operates that, with Knight Capital, became even more evident this week. But Mark Hulbert asks: Why get mad when we can make money from...
View ArticlePeter Brimelow: China letter shows signs of life
The death of China may be exaggerated. Both China letters continue a painful recovery, writes Peter Brimelow.
View ArticlePeter Brimelow: Gold fizzles — or gold fixed?
Last week was a dud for gold, and while the radical gold bugs are divided, they are regrouping, writes Peter Brimelow.
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