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Thoughts on the Continuing Crisis Fool Me Once, Shame on You Delinquencies and Foreclosures Spike UP Unemployment Rises to 6.1% Action Is Needed Now Annapolis, La Jolla and Wedding Videos We are entering the next stage of the credit crisis, and one which is potentially more troubling than what we have...
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It's All About the Spread The Coming Bank Credit Crunch More Thoughts on Fannie and Freddie Who Is Holding the Old Maid? Baltimore, La Jolla, South Africa, and London When is the credit crisis going to end? How will we know? The credit crisis is getting ready to enter its second phase. This week...
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commentary from this week's "Sector and Styles Strategy Report*: Back on February 11th I wrote a report titled “What are the Sell Side Analysts Smoking?” The commentary and report focused on the excessively optimistic outlook earnings forecasts for 2008 by bottom up analysts. Excessively...
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It's More Than Freddie and Fannie The US Banking System Is in Trouble $500 Billion and Counting Fannie, Freddie, and the Credit Crisis Baltimore, La Jolla, and South Africa Yet another crisis confronts us, as we will have to deal with the aftermath of a rather large number of bank failures over the...
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With the US economy tettering on the edge of a second down leg and much of the global economy poised to join, economic forecasts range from the plain bad to the outright terrible. My interview with the Senior US economist for Standard and Poors includes the impending W shaped US recession, the state...
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In this weekend's Thoughts from the Frontlines, I quoted from part of a very thoughtful, right-on-target analysis by David A. Rosenberg entitled "The Elusive Bottom." Over the weekend, I decided that you should read the whole piece, as Rosenberg makes some very solid points about how the...
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commentary from this week's "Sectors and Styles Strategy Report : “Of all the newfangled financial creations that have caused problems this past year, arguably the most nerve-wracking are derivatives traded over-the-counter…” Economist August 8, 2008 And the beat goes on....
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It is indeed a very interesting time in which to live, especially watching the financial markets. The disconnect among authorities, regulators, companies and investors is almost too much to comprehend. There are no precedents for the turmoil we are in. This week we read an essay by a name familiar to...
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This week I am in Maine on vacation with my son, and next week is my daughter Tiffani's wedding, so for the next two weeks I am going to send an updated version of a speech I have been giving the past few months on what I think is the likely potential for the rise of a brand new asset class. It is...
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UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Written Wednesday, July 30th, 2008: 6:30 am EST. Another ‘ fl as hy - sp la sh y ’ rally yesterday So typical of bear markets, especially those with much further in time and points to go. Grizzly bear markets thrive on investors’ hope and adamant investor...
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By Bud Conrad Chief Economist, The Casey Report - Casey Research As investors, the question we have to focus most of our attention on just now is what impact the credit crisis, the bursting housing bubble and the actions of the U.S. government will have on the economy and investment markets in the next...
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IBD 100 VIEW . Usually I report to you the ‘new names’ in the weekly IBD 100 list of leading companies, those companies outperforming most other stocks in price and with good fundamentals and earnings and revenues. With the idea that there is a ‘first mover’ advantage in becoming...
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It hardly instills deep confidence in our government officials when, after nearly a year, its prime modus operandi is to react to the latest financial crisis with yet another 11th hour solution. This is one of the longer term implications of the bailout plan for Fannie and Freddie. For all the near term...
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TECHNICAL VIEW . The Principle of History. Two historical technical observations today: 1. Capitulation: Where the Heck is It? CNBC keeps interviewing floor traders and reporting from the New York Stock Exchange that everyone there is anxiously looking for that big bout of capitulation, selling, to end...
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