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The S&P 500 Enters A Post-Transition Period
Ironman at Political Calculations • Mon, May 20 • 9 Comments
S&P 500: Up 1001 Points
Doug Short • Sun, May 19 • 2 Comments
Going Fractal With The S&P 500: An After-Action Report
Ironman at Political Calculations • Tue, May 14
S&P 500: Squeaks Out A New All-Time High By 7 Basis Points
Doug Short • Tue, May 14
Still Bullish
Bespoke Investment Group • Mon, May 13 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 At Another Record: Update On Earnings, Valuation And Estimates
Pendulum • Mon, May 13
S&P 500 Snapshot: Closing The Week At A New All-Time High
Doug Short • Sun, May 12 • 2 Comments
S&P 500 Snapshot: The 5-Day Rally Ends
Doug Short • Fri, May 10 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: Fifth Consecutive All-Time High
Doug Short • Thu, May 9
S&P 500 Snapshot: Fourth Consecutive All-Time High
Doug Short • Wed, May 8
S&P 500 Snapshot: Another All-Time High
Doug Short • Tue, May 7
S&P 500 Snapshot: All-Time High Above 1600
Doug Short • Sun, May 5 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: Another Closing High (By 2 Basis Points)
Doug Short • Fri, May 3 • 2 Comments
S&P 500 Snapshot: May Is Off To A Bad Start
Doug Short • Thu, May 2
S&P 500 Snapshot: Another All-Time High
Doug Short • Wed, May 1 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: New All-Time High
Doug Short • Tue, Apr 30
S&P 500 Snapshot: The Rally Stalls
Doug Short • Sun, Apr 28 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: Day 5 Of The Rally
Doug Short • Fri, Apr 26 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: A Narrow Range To Nowhere
Doug Short • Thu, Apr 25 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: A Tweet Day For U.S. Markets
Doug Short • Wed, Apr 24

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The S&P 500 Enters A Post-Transition Period
Ironman at Political Calculations • Mon, May 20 • 9 Comments
S&P 500: Up 1001 Points
Doug Short • Sun, May 19 • 2 Comments
Going Fractal With The S&P 500: An After-Action Report
Ironman at Political Calculations • Tue, May 14
S&P 500: Squeaks Out A New All-Time High By 7 Basis Points
Doug Short • Tue, May 14
Still Bullish
Bespoke Investment Group • Mon, May 13 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 At Another Record: Update On Earnings, Valuation And Estimates
Pendulum • Mon, May 13
S&P 500 Snapshot: Closing The Week At A New All-Time High
Doug Short • Sun, May 12 • 2 Comments
S&P 500 Snapshot: The 5-Day Rally Ends
Doug Short • Fri, May 10 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: Fifth Consecutive All-Time High
Doug Short • Thu, May 9
S&P 500 Snapshot: Fourth Consecutive All-Time High
Doug Short • Wed, May 8
S&P 500 Snapshot: Another All-Time High
Doug Short • Tue, May 7
S&P 500 Snapshot: All-Time High Above 1600
Doug Short • Sun, May 5 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: Another Closing High (By 2 Basis Points)
Doug Short • Fri, May 3 • 2 Comments
S&P 500 Snapshot: May Is Off To A Bad Start
Doug Short • Thu, May 2
S&P 500 Snapshot: Another All-Time High
Doug Short • Wed, May 1 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: New All-Time High
Doug Short • Tue, Apr 30
S&P 500 Snapshot: The Rally Stalls
Doug Short • Sun, Apr 28 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: Day 5 Of The Rally
Doug Short • Fri, Apr 26 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: A Narrow Range To Nowhere
Doug Short • Thu, Apr 25 • 1 Comment
S&P 500 Snapshot: A Tweet Day For U.S. Markets
Doug Short • Wed, Apr 24

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Sunday, May 19, 9:52 AM There is no precedent for the current market, writes The Fat Pitch. Consider: 1) The S&P (SPY) has been up 56 of 88 trading sessions this year 2) It's up an uncorrected 24% since the post-election low - the longest streak in over 3 decades 3) The Nasdaq (QQQ) is on pace for a 7th straight up month, an occurrence with a 3-in-100 probability. Long term it's bullish, writes Ukarlewitz, as this sort of strength is rarely the end of a trend. Short term? Stay nimble. 48 Comments
Saturday, May 18, 9:15 AM Leon Cooperman and partner Steve Einhorn keep it simple: Stocks (VTI) are cheap relative to interest rates and inflation. The guy who bought T-bills (SHY) has migrated to T-bonds (TLT), the guy who bought T-bonds has moved to investment grade corporates (LQD), the guy who bought IG is now in high-yield (HYG, JNK), and so on (glasses clink in the FOMC board room). Their largest position is Sprint Nextel (S) - as fans of Masayoshi Son and long-time owners of DISH, the duo like seeing two industry titans both wanting the same asset. New Citigroup (C) management should be able to double ROE over the next 2-3 years, and Transocean (RIG) sells for a significant discount to asset value. 4 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Friday, May 17, 8:13 AM Thomas Lee lifts his year-end S&P 500 (SPY) forecast to 1,715 from 1,580 as the bull has already outrun his expectations. His team sees clues economic performance is picking up, including the outperformance of semiconductors (XSD) vs. transports (IYT), and the steepening of the 10 year/30 year Treasury curve. Risk/reward is particularly appealing in tech (XLK), healthcare (XLV), and financials (XLF). Comment!
Tuesday, May 14, 8:03 AM More from Tepper: "We're going to get this hyper-drive market," unless the Fed starts tapering its purchases, he says (referencing 1999), adding the June meeting wouldn't be a bad time to get started. He pulls out this chart from a recent FRBNY report, showing stocks remain cheap - the equity premium to bonds is as high as it's been in the last 50 years. 16 Comments
Tuesday, May 14, 7:52 AM Tepper stays bullish. Confounding gnomes who whispered the hedge fund honcho was turning cautious on stocks, David Tepper tells the CNBC crew the wave of liquidity that turned him bullish in the first place is getting even bigger. Fed tapering? So what, he says. The U.S. budget deficit over the next 6 months will only be $100B, while the Fed is scheduled to buy about $500B. That's $400B coming out of the bond market and going to investors who can buy more fixed-income, more real estate, more stocks. SPY erases losses and gets back to flat premarket. 11 Comments [Breaking News]
Friday, May 10, 8:33 AM The S&P 500 (SPY) has yet to have even a 4% correction this year, with the only other time since 1980 the index made it to this point without one being 1995, according to Miller Tabak. The S&P went on the finish 1995 with a 34% advance that was but a small precursor to gains yet to come. One difference: 1995's gain was led by cyclicals and tech. This year's by defensive sectors (though showing signs of rotation). 4 Comments
Monday, May 6, 8:40 AM Laszlo Birinyi ups his S&P 500 (SPY) target this year to 1,900, the index having already hit his original 1,600 guess. He says this year's bull market most resembles the patterns etched in 1982 and 1990, suggesting another 20% of upside. "In addition to the historical parallels, we still view sentiment as subdued and nowwhere approaching extremes." 11 Comments
Monday, April 29, 10:40 AM Not confirming the nice move in the S&P (SPY) since March is the 10-year Treasury yield, today hitting another 2013 low of 1.65% (TLT +0.2%). Yields and stocks have move broadly together for years - especially so for the last year - but began to diverge about 2 months ago. Another notable divergence is the Russell 2000 (IWM) - trending lower for the last 6 weeks. 3 Comments
Wednesday, April 24, 10:10 AM Turning 10 this week, the Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP) has outperformed the SPY by 5,900 basis points since its launch. The RSP was one of the pioneers of equal-weighting - created in the aftermath of the 2000 bust to give investors exposure to stocks without so high a focus on large caps (the so-called "Cisco effect"). It's time for a renaming to the "Apple effect" as QQQE - the Nasdaq 100 Equal Weighted ETF - has outperformed the QQQ by 850 bps YTD. 3 Comments
Monday, April 22, 11:08 AM "When the cover of a major financial magazine features a cartoon of a bull leaping through the air on a pogo stick, it's probably about time to cash in the chips," writes John Hussman, commenting on Saturday's Barron's cover. Ryan Detrick notes the Barron's big money poll was decidedly more bearish 6 months and 1,000 Dow (DIA) points ago. 5 Comments
Thursday, April 18, 9:03 AM After dropping to the lowest level since March 2009 last week, bulls gain 7.5 points to 26.8% in the AAII Investor Sentiment Survey. The long-term average of bulls is 39%. Those bearish drop 6.3 points to 48.2% - still well above the long-term average of 30.5%. From Bespoke is this chart of the SPY vs. the AAII bulls since 2009. 3 Comments
Tuesday, April 16, 8:57 AM Stocks are "far from the overextended levels that prevailed at the prior peaks," says BAML, comparing the S&P 500 (SPY) today to March 2000 and October 2007. Earnings and dividend yields today are far higher; PE ratios, Price/Book, EV/EBITDA are all lower. "Third time a charm?" 1 Comment
Monday, April 15, 3:50 PM Calling recent stock market action a "buying stampede" unlike anything he's seen in more than 50 years of watching markets, Jeff Saut says the investors he talks to believe the rally is "artificially induced" and is set up for a crash. The big picture: QE remains, profits have risen along with stocks, the Advance/decline line has broken out to new highs - "there is nothing in the 'tea leaves' suggesting a repeat of double-digit declines" seen in the past 3 springs. 15 Comments
Friday, April 12, 11:38 AM "We capitulate on our 'correction call,'" says JPMorgan's Tom Lee, bullish again after a brief foray into the bearish camp. Lee says the economy is stronger than he anticipated and even weak data (see retail sales earlier) is being "looked through." 10 Comments
Monday, April 1, 8:36 AM S&P 500 (SPY) records now and then: Corporate profits are 13% higher today than October 2007, says BAML's Savita Subramanian, concluding stocks are "still playing catch up to fundamentals." Additionally, the index's dividend yield is 30% higher now and the P/E ratio is well-below levels of 2007 and 2000. "Waiting for a better entry point can be dangerous," she advises. 6 Comments
Tuesday, March 26, 10:50 PM Sentiment indicators tend to work best at bottoms, writes The Fat Pitch, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't pay attention to what's become a bit of froth in the bull camp. Low cash levels, rising margin debt, prominent bears capitulating, and the return of the Dow 36K crew have been well-documented. One you might not have heard of is the Canadian equivalent of Time screaming "BUY!" on its cover. 3 Comments

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