Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: Emerge Energy Services’s parabolic rise from its IPO and absurd valuation demonstrates the momo play by robots, day traders and flavor-of-the-month hedge funds in a stock market that has been destroyed by the Fed. Emerge is a poster boy for the irrational exuberance that has become institutionalized
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Sarah Ketterer at at Causeway Capital Mgmt said: Buying energy stocks very incrementally as oil prices eventually reach a floor and rise again but no idea when. Looks for companies with tremendous financial strength that can continue to pay dividends. Smart companies will use their balance sheet strength to buy
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Harvard Endowment initiated positions in Texas-based oil and gas companies in Q3, increasing its energy position to about a third of US public equity holdings, second only to health care. Stanford invested in fossil-fuel companies in Q3. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-17/harvard-added-texas-energy-companies-during-third-quarter.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jonathan Glionna at Barclays said: There is insufficient data not enough data – only 21 observations in the last 86 years – to expect a repeat of stocks’ habit of rallying after midterm elections – a median 7% in the 90 days following, with a range of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Regular investors, especially those saving for retirement, have an advantage over the professionals because they can afford to be patient and buy extra when stocks drop – “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful” – Warren Buffett. David Santschi at TrimTabs Investment
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Investors still believe that whenever stocks and risk assets fall, the authorities will act to limit the losses to ensure they don’t take economies down with them. Hans Redeker et al at Morgan Stanley said comments last week by Bullard and Haldane left markets with the impression
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Justin Haque at Hobart Capital Markets said the ECB was slow to start and it is still not US-style QE, but they are trying to talk up the market – the appetite to short is now sated, so why not run long with the ECB? Read the full article
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Ronan Carr at Morgan Stanley said they are tactically overweight Russian stocks – upped to Buy from Sell – and that the situation is not deteriorating and that worst case outcomes, like additional sanctions, now appear less likely. JPMorgan Chase said Russian stocks are likely to extend
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Paul Tudor Jones at Tudor Investment Corp is believed to have said: US stocks will outperform other equity markets for the rest of 2014. The bubble in global credit will burst one day. If we maintain the status quo on QE, we will end up like Greece
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Matt Maley at Miller Tabak said that when people sell liquid US equities stock market when they cannot sell their illiquid assets – the reason for last week’s sharp market sell-off. The IMF said the proportion of corporate-debt securities held by mutual funds has doubled since 2007 to
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