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THE JANUARY BAROMETER AFTER A DOWN JANUARY

The S&P; 500 Index lost 3.6% in January. Here is the drill: Since 1900, a down January has resulted in a median +0.3% return on the DJII. But when January was a down month, the barometer gave an accurate forecast … Continue reading

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Equity Pullbacks Are Part of Every Recovery Year

Despite rebounding gaining 0.5% on January 25, the S&P; 500 is still down 4.6% from its January 19 cyclical high of 1150. At this juncture, it is important to keep in mind that equity pullbacks are part of every economic … Continue reading

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BUY LOW-SELL HIGH: Emerging Markets Appear Fully Priced

Short history chart but nevertheless very telling and compelling from my standpoint. Emerging market stocks are no longer cheap and already reflect a lot of good news, leaving them vulnerable to even minor disappointments. Emerging market (EM) equity multiples have … Continue reading

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THE JANUARY BAROMETER II

Yesterday, I published the traditional new year post on the January Barometer. Barron’s Michael Santoli has a piece that covers another angle: Reaching a bit more deeply into the almanac, market historian and author John K. Harris toted up how … Continue reading

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Day One Joys

First time I hear about that one. From Floyd Norris’ blog at the NYT (…) Howard Silverblatt, the data maven at Standard & Poor’s, has pointed out that an investor who bought the S.&P.; 500 stocks at the close of … Continue reading

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ANNUAL RATES OF RETURNS-ALL ASSET CLASSES

See also: EQUITIES: 10-YEAR COMPOUND GLOBAL ANNUAL RATES OF RETURN EQUITIES: GLOBAL ANNUAL RATES OF RETURN IN $US EQUITIES: GLOBAL ANNUAL RATES OF RETURN IN $CDN RBC Capital Markets

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EQUITIES: GLOBAL ANNUAL RATES OF RETURN IN $CDN

Compound 3 and 5 year returns ( Annual returns to be posted later) Also see: $US-based returns and 10-YEAR COMPOUND GLOBAL ANNUAL RATES OF RETURN RBC Capital Markets

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EQUITIES: GLOBAL ANNUAL RATES OF RETURN IN $US

Annually Compound 3 and 5 year returns RBC Capital Markets

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EQUITIES: 10-YEAR COMPOUND GLOBAL ANNUAL RATES OF RETURN

In Canada in 1998-99, most everybody were advising investors to sell Canadian equities to buy US equities. Beware of extrapolations! RBC Capital Markets

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THE JANUARY BAROMETER

As goes January, so goes the year! It is this time of the year. Here are the stats to help … or mix you up. From the WSJ today: Since 1900: Last year, Doug Short gave his own spin going … Continue reading

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Year-end tables for all North American stocks and indexes

Download 2009 closing prices for all stocks on TSX, Venture, NY, Nasdaq and Amex exchanges pdf files From the Globe & Mail

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Too Few Bears Spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E

Via The Big Picture Albert Edwards of Société Générale makes the simple contrarian argument that the low number of equity bears is a bad sign for equities: “The current extremely low number of equity bears (the lowest since the market … Continue reading

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