Market Commentary – Thursday January 20, 2011 – posted @ 9:20AM/EST
In my January 4, 2011 Market Commentary, I pointed to signs of divergence in some of the markets key leaders. At the time, these divergences were significant enough to move our leading stock portion of our risk model to neutral from positive. While this did not move the risk model to an outright sell, it [...]
The Little Book of Sideways Markets
Vitaliy Katsenelson, author of Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets, has recently come out with a new book, The Little Book of Sideways Markets: How to Make Money in Markets that Go Nowhere. Many investors don’t realize that over the last ten years, the stock market has gone up and down but still [...]
Top Yielding Japan Stocks
Economists have been saying for the last few years that Japan has been stagnating, and many of those economists believe that the United States is turning into another Japan. But maybe, just maybe, there may be a turn-around in the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’. After all, the iShares MSCI Japan Index (EWJ) is up [...]