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Where the Big Money is Betting Big
For years, investors have debated whether the big money is the smart money.
The basic premise is the big money (the mutual, pension, and hedge funds) will buy into a “hot†sector. And continue buying into it as long as it keeps going up. The ongoing buying pushes prices up. As a result, the big money looks like the smart money most of the time.
Just take a look at the market swings over the past decade. The big money was buying large-cap growth and technology stocks in the 90’s. For nearly a decade, the big money was the smart money. The…
18May2009 | Q1 Publishing | 0 comments | ContinuedWarren Buffett’s great stock market timing move
Nothing strange about the 2008 bear
There have been a lot of comments in the media and among investors all year about how strange the stock market has been acting this year.
I don’t agree. Except for the wild day-to-day volatility (after the SEC allowed the abolishment of the up-tick rule on short-selling last year) the market has been acting quite normally.
It handled the turmoil created by the collapse of the housing bubble and the onslaught of the sub-prime mortgage mess last year quite well, reaching a new bull market high in October of last year.
Always looking ahead six to nine months,…
18Nov2008 | Street Smart Report | Comments Off | ContinuedThe Smart Money Says You Need to Sell the Dollar Today
How to Sell the Dollar
In 2004, then Treasury Secretary John Snow was traipsing about the globe trying to “talk the dollar down.†Why? In a word: debt. At the time, our debt stood at $7 trillion, with interest payments in fiscal 2003 totaling $318 billion. But now the U.S. national debt stands above $9 trillion, with interest payments in fiscal 2007 adding $1.4 billion a day.
But the Fed and Treasury have engineered a strategy to pay off the debt with weaker and weaker dollars. And guess what? So far, so good. Since November 2002, the dollar has fallen against the…
6Aug2008 | The Penny Sleuth | Comments Off | Continued
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