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Buy On The Dips For Next Phase of Stock Market Rally

August 10, 2010 by Jeflin
The past month has been kind to the stock market as investors hoped on to a nice lift after the World Cup distraction. August will present a tense period though in terms of market movement. While April’s high beckon tantalisingly, the stock market could fall flat or lose steam as there are not much good [...]

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Stock Market Investing From May to November Fraught With Danger

May 7, 2010 by Jeflin
Stock markets are set for a roller coaster ride this week. While strong 1st quarter profits were reported and the US economy grew 3.2% in the first quarter, slightly short of economists’ forecast but still made for a third consecutive quarter of growth, investors were spooked by lingering doubts on the viability of Greece’s financial [...]

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Investing Pitfalls In the Year of Metal Tiger

February 22, 2010 by Jeflin
The Year of the Metal Tiger is upon us. Traditionally, the Lunar New Year is a festive period where the Chinese celebrate by giving angpows, buy new stuff after doing a thorough spring cleaning, clear outstanding debts and look forward to bountiful rewards. However, given that the tiger is a ferocious animal, this year is [...]

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Don’t Be Suckered By Stock Market Rally In 2010

December 28, 2009 by Jeflin
Global stock markets are poised to end on a high for the year after mounting an explosive recovery since March lows. The stock market rally, nearly ten months in duration, has surprised many naysayers with its longevity and magnitude. Nevertheless, after such a run-up, some consolidation is in order. Rampant bullishness in the stock market [...]

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Get Real On The Economic Recovery And Stock Market Rally

October 21, 2009 by Jeflin
Third quarter earnings season is still ongoing but if you read closely into the numbers, fundamentals have barely improved, which stand at odds to the heady valuations arising from this stock market rally. On the bright side, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs reported blowout earnings. However, trading is the name of their game which has little [...]

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Lessons of Financial Crisis Forgotten In Heady Speculation

September 7, 2009 by Jeflin
Financial crisis or the Great Recession, if you still remember them, seems so far away… we are now in the best six-month stock market rally since 1933. The bulls have been running riot in the stock market, seemingly unassailable and making money effortlessly, while the bears are licking their wounds. Green shoots have “blossomed” but [...]

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Don’t Bet On A V-shaped Economy Recovery

August 12, 2009 by Jeflin
Are stock markets heading for a breather? Euphoria surrounding Asian equities have cooled down considerably over the past week, prompted by profit taking amid concerns that stock valuations ramped up too fast and are inconsistent with underlying earnings. More importantly, China declared its intent to rein in the flood of new bank loans to the [...]

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Stay Nimble For Your Investment

July 28, 2009 by Jeflin
I did a double take when I saw this news: The inspector general for the $700 billion TARP scheme tallied about 50 initiatives set up by the Bush/Obama administrations and the Federal Reserve and came to the conclusion that “the US government’s maximum exposure to financial institutions since 2007 could total nearly $24 trillion, or [...]

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More US Bailouts Dampen Market Sentiment

July 8, 2009 by Jeflin
Since the last week of June, the stock market has whipsawed in a tight range. Gone is the hot-headed exuberance but neither has a drastic correction materialize. Some bulls are still holding the fort amid a thin market volume, but deciphering market sentiment is difficult as false signals can be easily generated by a few [...]

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Buy Gold To Keep Up With Inflation

June 24, 2009 by Jeflin
During the recent stock market rally, it was easy for investors to get complacent about the future and engage in reckless speculation. The common refrain is that there is nothing much to fear except fear itself. After all, esteemed economics professors, including Paul Krugman, have ascertained that the worst is over. Nevertheless, in the short [...]

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Limited Investing Opportunities In Range Bound Trading

June 11, 2009 by Jeflin
Time flies when we are having fun… we are now into the 13th week of a stock market rally that started in March. The embers of the stock market rally has not flickered out entirely but there are signs of investors taking some profits off the table. In the short term, stocks may still rise. [...]

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Is This Stock Market Rally For Real?

June 2, 2009 by Jeflin
With each passing week, the case for a bearish reversal out of this stock market rally becomes stronger. For the time being, the bulls triumphed by breaking out of a potentially ugly double top pattern. This raging bullish sentiment pretty much sums up last week’s stock market actions. The bulls are buttressed by the highest [...]

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Bull-Bear Royal Rumble: Bear To Assert Presence Soon

May 25, 2009 by Jeflin
There is nothing more detrimental to our psychology than seeing our friends get rich. With each day that stock markets continue their impressive surge, lingering skepticism are transformed into belief and rational people are behaving once again like gamblers. It was only months, if not weeks ago, that the same investors and businesses were perched [...]

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Stock Market Rally: First Stage Of A Primary Bull Trend?

May 15, 2009 by Jeflin
“Sell in May and go away” may not be relevant this year. For a month commonly associated with disinterested stock market activity, we have seen a 36% jump in the benchmark S&P 500 from March’s 12-year low. Economic reports turn out better than expected, swine flu has been downgraded to a harmless entity, and US [...]

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Bolster Your Emergency Fund In A Prolonged Crisis

May 12, 2009 by Jeflin
I hope everyone has an enjoyable May Day. For those who work day in, day out, this is usually a well deserved break. But of late, nobody seems to be keen on taking leave, given the rise in no pay leave, shorter work hours (no overtime), pay cuts, and retrenchments. In some countries, protests and [...]

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Go Green and See More Greenbacks

May 1, 2009 by Jeflin
It is now literally and figuratively true – the color of money is in deed green in every sense of the word. People all over the world are waking up to the fact that now is the time to do all we can to save the environment, that it’s cool to be going green today, [...]

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Bear Rally Refuses To Die But Don’t Get Carried Away

April 23, 2009 by Jeflin
In case it is not glaringly obvious to you, the bear rally is still alive. Fundamentals have taken a back seat as investors continue to buy into the recovery story. The rationale goes like this – the stock market is a barometer for the future and investors buy stocks based on future earnings power. If [...]

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Bullish Days Ahead But Bear Is Lying In Wait For The Kill

April 14, 2009 by Jeflin
We are into the fifth week of upswing in the stock market. While stock valuations remain attractive for value investors, the market is overbought and a major correction is overdue. That is not to say that this bear rally is all fluff. “Green shoots” are sprouting and there are positive long term implications for the [...]

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