Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said global money printing and spending could continue for a while so don’t expect a crash anytime soon, though markets could correct for a while. Congress has moved the debt ceiling and are afraid to do anything about it. Read the full article at http://jimrogersonthemarkets.blogspot.com/2013/12/i-cannot-see-crash-anytime-soon.html Click here
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Lewis Braham writes: Contrarian funds can be a hedge of sorts, though a potentially volatile one as out-of-favor sectors tend to be cyclical and prone to booms and busts. Shorting is inherently dangerous as markets have been trending higher. Brian Singer at William Blair Macro Allocation Fund
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bill Luby at Luby Asset Mgmt said people are back to pricing in no big surprises until the beginning of 2014. The median economist expects the Fed to wait until March to taper. Eric Augustyn at Wells Fargo Private Bank said tapering will be very gradual and
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Nine of every 10 stocks in the S&P 500 are set to end the year in positive territory. Only 2 in 5 US bond funds have broken even for investors. Almost anything associated with gold has lost money. The best performing US large-cap stock is Fannie Mae,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Joseph Baratta at Blackstone said: The stock market rally may last 2 more years with compound annual growth of 8% to 10%, as long as the Fed provides support. Equity markets are not overvalued when measured by the prices buyout firms are paying for companies. US economic
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Barry Ritholtz says that since 1897: Double-digit gains occurred in 75% of the positive years and single-digit gains occurred 25% of the positive years. 20 percent or greater gains occurred in 29 percent of the years. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-05/bull-or-bubble-ritholtz-chart-.html Click here to receive free and
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Hedge funds returned 7.1 percent in 2013 through November versus the 29.1 percent return of the S&P 500 Index, with reinvested dividends, and are headed for their worst annual performance relative to US stocks since at least 2005 and underperforming for the fifth year in a row.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The IMF predicts G-7 nations will tighten policy in 2014 by the least since they began in 2011 – at half this year’s pace as the average budget shortfall drops to about a quarter of where it was just 3 years ago. Jose Ursua at Goldman Sachs
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bill Gross at Pimco said: The unprecedented cash added to the financial system by central banks is raising the risk of a slide in global asset prices. Global economies and their artificially priced markets are increasingly at risk, but the unwinding may occur gradually.” The Fed, BoJ,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Robert Gorman at TD Wealth said: The 3-yr period of sharp underperformance for Canada is coming to a close Dividend stocks will continue to rule but resource stocks will do comparatively better after showing signs of bottoming out. The S&P/TSX Composite Index and the S&P 500 will
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