... sectors in the spring and summer have seen their stocks hit, while the indexes remain up.  Which means, there is a bull market somewhere - just not in areas we typically look at. Aside from the large caps mentioned this morning, we have a very curious group of stocks surging since early to mid November: utilities, healthcare, some retail - ...

... of generalized consumer inflation - not in the USA and not in Europe either. The only thing that is going up is gold. There is a bull market in gold and gold alone. But why? According to the law of supply and demand, you ... profit equals revenue minus costs. Thus there really can't be any questions left as to how the market pulled off this quarter...companies are simply trimming the fat at an ...

... were 8x, not 26x. Dividend yields were 6%, not sub-2%. The stock market was trading at a discount to book, not a 2x premium. Monetary policy was aimed at ... one immersed in academia and government? To play devil’s advocate, no two bull markets are equal in every way. It is a stretch to require a secular bull market to require experienced politicians for example. But cheap (or at least, ...

... Jeffrey Saut is back with his latest weekly market commentary. This week's piece, entitled & ... possibly the beginning of a new secular bull market or a "bull market within the confines of the trading range ... cautious after the March lows on a few occasions where they felt the market was overextended. They (like many others) were wrong and have tried to adjust accordingly and play the tape ...

... double the rate in the same period of 2008. The stock market is focusing mostly on the weaker dollar and a way-better-than-expected pending ... Mayer wrote to his readers yesterday, explaining why there was no market Armageddon over Dubai’s debt. &ldquo ... contract is up to $78 a barrel. Yesterday, we described the bizarre bull market in Chinese garlic. Let’s conclude ...

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The very useful comparison of the current US stock market rally with that of 1982 is provided in the table below, courtesy of Barry Ritholtz, writer of The Big Picture blog. It is when looking at the characteristics of a typical market bottom that one has difficulty seeing that the March ‘09 lows were in fact a primary bull market turning point. “Maybe this time it really is ...

The MSCI World Stock Market Index has registered gains in 7 out of the last 9 trading days, and closed today at 1175.40, the highest close since October 1, 2008, more than a year ago (see chart above). The World Index has risen 27.7% since the first of the year, and by more 70% from the early March bottom. Welcome to the Worldwide Bull Market Rally of 2009. Here's one report.

... %) Smith Intl (SII), an oilfield services company, sold 28M shares in a secondary & it did not go well. The stock fell 3.90 to 26.86 (13%). This is not supposed to happen in a bull market. UPDATE - Smith Int'l raising $800 mln in equity, shares dropat Reuters(Mon 4:39pm) Smith International --- 1 day Smith International --- 1 ...

... in, led by smaller stocks that investors hope will respond quickly to an economic turnaround. Now some of the early gainers are running out of steam, which can be a sign that the bull market is aging. Investors who track indicators like these don't expect significant declines anytime soon, but they are watching for problems next year. As the Dow ...

... give the advantage to the bearish side up here.  Let’s a take a look at both. The Bull Case - Market still trading up around the highs of the year despite quite a bit of bad news (ie ... the coast is now clear.  It isn’t and most of the good news has been built into this market now) - there must be a few more points to make the bullish case, but I’m not coming up with ...

Welcome to Stage Two of Gold's Bull Market: "November 23, 2009 – Bull markets are marked by three distinct stages, and when gold climbed above $1,000, it only entered its second stage. In other words, gold has much further to climb in the months and years ahead."

I’m a big fan of the Financial Trend Forecaster Web site. In it’s latest free newsletter, which I get via email it is still telling me this market is still a traders market and NOT an investors market. Under current analysis it goers on to say; “The ROC has continued its blastoff  reaching  35.89% improvement over year ago levels. Back in February of 2004 the NYSE ROC peaked ...

... Blackrock, notes that financials, which took a beating during the bear market and bounced off the bottom impressively for the first six months, have been lagging ... market sees large capitalizaion companies outperforming small cap stocks. James T. Swanson, ... extending another year and a half would appear to be good. This bull market is outside the norm because it hasn't had the typical 10 percent ...

... I will be discussing at the Berlin Conference: Comparing the 1982 Bull Market with the 2009 Rally > Rally Comparison 1982 2009 ... Barriers Were being torn down Are being erected Regulation Deregulation in vogue Re-regulation rising US Dollar Plaza Accord bull market Mercantilist bear market Household Credit Balance sheets and participation rates expanding Balance sheets now contracting ...