Salient to Investors: The average of the 17 strategists predictions for year-end for the S&P 500 was 1,601. overnight loans with bad credit australia Goldman Sachs expects the index to exceed 1900 by 2016 but says most of its valuation engines show the market is currently at or above fair
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Larry Fink at BlackRock says investors should be heavily invested in equities due to its fair value at a 15.5 P/E ratio for the S&P 500 and good earnings season. Jeffrey Gundlach at DoubleLine said in mid-April that he expects a catastrophic failure because the developed world
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Randall Warren at Warren Financial Service said we need to see good economic reports and good earnings reports later this month for stocks to keep rising. Birinyi Associates says the rally is longer than the average length of bull markets since 1962 of 4 years – 4 of the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Laszlo Birinyi at Birinyi Associates says: The S&P 500 rally has a good year to go as investors give up their pessimism and buy. The bull is very much alive given this sort of hesitancy or reluctance instead of acceptance. There is nothing troubling in view unless people start talking
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bespoke Investment and Bloomberg say short sales in the S&P Composite 1500 Index fell in February to the lowest in recorded data back to 2007 – the last time at this level saw the Index lose 3.3 percent over the next three months. Bulls say the capitulation by
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: David Einhorn said long positions exceeded shorts 29 percent as of Jan. 31 versus 39 percent on Jan 1, 2013, and has become less enthusiastic as the market rises while the US has slowed – GDP went negative in Q4 2012 and earnings growth has come to a virtual
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Average daily price moves for the S&P 500 have seen the steepest decline since the 1930s – the last time the annual average was this low was 1995, when the S&P 500 rose 34 percent and doubled in the next four years. Going back to 1928 shows stocks gain
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: 48 of the 67 companies reporting earnings exceeded analysts’ estimates S&P 500 earnings are expected to exceed $1 trillion in 2013, 31 percent more than when the index peaked. The S&P 500 P/E is 9.8 percent below the 6-decade mean. Analysts predict S&P 500 earnings will rise 8 percent
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jack Ablin at BMO Private Bank said the economic head start helps build a nice story for 2013. 71 percent of the 52 S&P 500 companies so far reported have beat analysts forecasts. Laszlo Birinyi said he purchased options to bet the S&P 500 will rise more than 8 percent by the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Morgan Stanley said leverage among equity managers climbed to the highest level to start any year since at least 2004. Margin debt at NYSE firms rose in November to the highest since February 2008. James Dunigan at PNC Wealth Mgmt said leverage is increasing among hedge-funds. Gross leverage at hedge
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