Last Week in the Market
Lance on Feb 04 2008 | Filed under: Latest data, Market Data
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Last Weeks Market
Lance on Jan 28 2008 | Filed under: Absolute Return, Asset Allocation, Market Data
Some big losers we had profited from, small cap and REIT’s, had a big comeback last week. We still did fine, but not as well as we could have had they not.
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The Harley Report
Lance on Jan 25 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Equities, Economic Indicators, Economics, Market Data
As I noted earlier, Dale Franks was curious about how Harley Davidson (HOG) would do on its latest earnings release:
One earnings report to watch this week, though, is Harley-Davidson (HOG). It’s a solid company with a loyal customer base—I’m one of them actually—but, motorcycles are a luxury item. For every guy [...]
The Global Correction
Lance on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Equities, Emerging Markets, Global Equity, International Equities, Market Data
This is a very cool look at the market carnage of the last few days geographically from the Wall Street Journal. You can go from one day to the next and watch how the markets in various places rose and fell*. Hat tip: James Hamilton (who has interesting observations on what happened.)
Click here for Global [...]
Panic at the Fed?
Lance on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Equities, Economic Indicators, Economics, Federal Reserve, Global Equity, Government policy, Housing Market, International Equities, Latest data, Market Data, Risk, monetary policy
Like me, Barry Ritholtz sniffed a whiff of panic in the Fed’s actions yesterday. The question he asks is why they acted before their meeting. Here are his questions, all good. I have pretty much stolen the whole post. Hopefully Barry will not mind:
What does this mean for investors. Quite a number of things – [...]
Overseas Markets Plunge Again
Lance on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Developing Markets, Emerging Markets, Global Equity, International Equities, Market Data
From the New York Times:
Heavy selling hit each Asian and European stock market as soon as it opened. Some of Asia’s easternmost exchanges, which had closed on Monday before the sharpest declines occurred in India and then Europe, suffered particularly steep drops.
The Japanese stock market dropped 5.7 percent, for the worst two-day loss in [...]
Fiscal Stimulus Not Being Received Well
Lance on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Developing Markets, Economic Indicators, Economics, Emerging Markets, Federal Reserve, Government policy, International Equities, Market Data, Politics, Risk, monetary policy, today's links
It seems world markets see the stimulus plan in the US as evidence for panic, not joy.
Stock markets around the world plummeted Monday, prompted by pessimism about U.S. President George W. Bush’s plans to boost the U.S. economy.
Share prices in Asia, Europe and the Americas all plunged by significant amounts; Wall Street only avoided joining [...]
Today’s links: Who has the Power?
Lance on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Economic Indicators, Economics, Federal Reserve, Housing Market, Latest data, Market Data, today's links
Can I ask for some applause for this from Crossing Wall Street?
I have to agree with Frederic Mishkin of the Fed:
I think there is too much focus on what decision will be made about the federal funds rate target at the next FOMC meeting. What is important for pricing most financial assets is the path [...]
How bad has it been?
Lance on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Asset Allocation, Domestic Equities, Market Data, Risk
Bespoke gives us this observation:
While the S&P 500 is less than 12% off of its intraday high from October, individual stocks are faring far worse. As the chart to the right indicates, the average stock in the S&P 1500 is now over 30% off of its 52-week high. Grouping stocks by their market [...]
