Financial News Friday – May 10, 2013
Back again this week. Last week I was on vacation and was unable to post a weekly update. Also, expect some new content and videos to start hitting the blog next week.
Challenge to Dogma on Owning a Home
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Back again this week. Last week I was on vacation and was unable to post a weekly update. Also, expect some new content and videos to start hitting the blog next week.
I …
As a user of Dimensional Fund Advisors’ low-cost value investing funds, it’s always interesting to see such headlines in the news. Here are a few quotes from the article:
“Equal-weighting the …
John Hussman…“Right now corporate profits are 70% above their historical norm”
Yahoo Finance has an excellent interview with fund manager John Hussman. Here are some other points of interest in …
Zerohedge has pulled out some choice quotes from a CNBC interview with Sam Zell and David Rosenberg
Rosenberg: “Not surprising the market rises even in the face of …
Zerohedge has a nice piece on the difference between the reported unemployment rate, which was 7.6% and the real unemployment rate of 11.6%. The chart above is an excerpt from the article.
If you turn on the news, the financial networks are rejoicing.
The S&P 500 has reached new nominal highs.
Mebane Faber breaks down the growth of the S&P and adjusts the growth …
Zerohedge has a breakdown (and a nice chart by JP Morgan, which is featured above) of the earnings of the market versus the market highs of the last several years. The quick article notes that revenues …
Yesterday the S&P 500 closed just shy of its all time closing high of 1565.
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Congress may extend …
This article has an interesting take on the already beleaguered Social Security trust fund. The forecasters mentioned in the article believe that the Social Security trust fund will become …
This week has been a boon for the markets. With a fiscal cliff deal in sight, the S&P 500 stock index surged from 1402 to 1426 on Monday, New Year’s Eve. The market continued its rally on Wednesday closing at …