Archive for January, 2009

• Friday links: critical junctures
  abnormalreturns, January 30th, 2009 at 12:42 pm, Comments: 0

  “Peter Schiff predicted a collapse of the U.S. financial system. The bust-up he didn’t foresee was the one that made mincemeat of investors who took [...]

• Thursday links: gold sentiment
  abnormalreturns, January 29th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, Comments: 0

  Gold sentiment is decidedly bullish.  (FT Alphaville, BusinessWeek.com, Marketwatch.com also greenfaucet.com) The S&P 500 is trading at an implied annual sales growth rate of -3.7%.  [...]

• Wednesday links: dependent models
  abnormalreturns, January 28th, 2009 at 3:50 pm, Comments: 0

  “A big reason so many people lost money in 2008 was that they built investment portfolios too dependent on rising markets.”  (MarketBeat) “Financial models are [...]

• Tuesday links: dividend destruction
  abnormalreturns, January 27th, 2009 at 12:44 pm, Comments: 0

  2009 has already been a bad year for global equity markets and it’s not even 1/12th over.  (Bespoke) Piggybacking on the TARP has not been [...]

• Monday links: an act of faith
  abnormalreturns, January 26th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Comments: 0

  A prominent investment advisor, Peter Schiff, who claims to have been “right” on the current crisis, failed to make money for his clients.  (Mish also [...]

• Sunday links: big oil buys
  abnormalreturns, January 25th, 2009 at 3:16 pm, Comments: 0

  Breaking down the source of stock market returns to build a better forecast.  (WSJ.com) Ten rules of market survival.   (InVivoAnalytics.com) Traders need to be aware [...]

• Friday links: model malaise
  abnormalreturns, January 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm, Comments: 0

  “Every trading strategy draws upon a model, even if it is not expressed in mathematical symbols.”  (Economist.com) Given the crash-like behavior of this bear market, [...]

• Friday links: model malaise
  abnormalreturns, January 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm, Comments: 0

  “Every trading strategy draws upon a model, even if it is not expressed in mathematical symbols.”  (Economist.com) Given the crash-like behavior of this bear market, [...]

• Thursday links: bank mitosis
  abnormalreturns, January 22nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Comments: 0

  Investors pulled $152 billion from hedge funds in Q4 2008.  Although top performers still gained assets. (DealBook) Was 2008 the year to give Warren Buffett [...]

• Wednesday links: the right data
  abnormalreturns, January 21st, 2009 at 1:24 pm, Comments: 0

  State Street (STT) was supposed to be relatively immune to the credit crisis.  Think again.  (WSJ.com, breakingviews.com, 24/7 Wall St.) Do investors in the SPDR [...]