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Santa Claus Rally? Don’t Bet On It…

| December 5, 2011 | 0 Comments

Stocks soared last week to their biggest weekly gain since the autumn of 2008.  The Dow Jones Industrials closed at 12,019 for a sensational 7% rise.  It was the second biggest weekly point gain in the long, storied history of the index. The other major measures of US stock prices also put in big gains […]

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Santa Claus Rally: You’re Crazy Not To Invest In This Market

| December 7, 2010 | 0 Comments

On the last day of November I said, “Bullish investor sentiment could send this market into overdrive.”  Since then, the large-cap S&P 500 is up 3.5%.  Even more impressively, mid-cap stocks are up 4.5% and small-cap stocks are up almost 5%! Clearly the “Santa Claus Rally” has come early this year. In fact, one underappreciated […]

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