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- Stocks Have Run into a Brick Wall
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits: After nine weeks of strong gains with barely a pause, stocks ran into a brick wall last week, dropping 5 percent by Friday’s closing bell as doubts about a quick recovery for the economy started to set in. Whether that pullback proves to be merely the...
- External links 2009-05-20
- Earnings Season So Far: Largely Impressive Announcements, Less Than 15% Falling Short
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits:Earnings season is well underway with about a quarter of S&P 500 companies having already reported. The results, helped by favorable year-on-year comparisons, have been largely impressive so far, with over three quarters of announcements coming above expectations and less than 15 percent falling short. ...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Stock Price Strength Notwithstanding, Economy and the Dollar are Still on the Skids
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits:The dollar continues to work its way lower, prompting people to shift more assets into riskier investments such as stocks. This is a trade that could persist for a time, and indeed, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government are content to let it continue as it...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Buy Zero Coupon Bonds to Hedge Against a Decline in U.S. Economy
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits: If you want to make money and you believe, as we do, that Chindia will grow 7-8% regardless what happens in the developed world, then you must invest in that region. Sure there will be setbacks, but the long-term prospects are worth the risk. ...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Expect Double Digit Unemployment
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits: Talk of a second stimulus package is making the market nervous, with some economists stressing the need to top up the first package and others warning such action may come too soon. Attempting to soothe the market’s reaction to the suggestion that the initial...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Retail Sales, Jobless Claims Quite Misleading; Commodities the One Bright Spot
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits: If not for the seriousness of the situation it would be comical how the popular press manages to put a positive spin on things these days. CNN and other media outlets are cheering the surprise 0.5 percent increase in retail sales in May. That headline number...
- External links 2009-06-12
- Today's Green Shoots: First Buds of Spring or Toxic Mold on Our Bread?
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits:Stock prices rose last week for the 12th time in the past 13 weeks, which makes this the biggest quarterly winning streak in the past 20 years or so. We have to attribute much of the advance to higher consumer confidence resulting from the perception...
- External links 2009-06-09
- Why the U.S. Recovery Will Lag
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits: The U.S. economy continues to show signs of stabilizing, or at least deteriorating at a slower rate than before. But the resumption of growth will be slow and prolonged, as we've previously advised. One of the many reasons is that banks and their willingness...
- External links 2009-06-05
- Decline in Volatility Is One Bright Spot in the Economy
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits: In the wake of a powerful two-month rally based on the perception of growing economic stability but not real improvement, it should prove no surprise that the financial markets have entered a well-deserved consolidation phase. It's too soon to say how long or deep the correction...
- External links 2009-05-22
- Rates Need to Stay Low for This Bottom to Stick
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits: Last week’s market decline was only the second weekly decline since early March. Bad economic data suggesting that recovery isn’t as near as hoped sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 3.6 percent and the S&P 500 down 5 percent. Yet on Tuesday, on better-than-expected earnings...
- External links 2009-05-20
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- Mosaic: Expect the Return of Its Glory Days as Economies Recover
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits:In 2008, tight lending conditions hurt farmers’ ability to take on loans – preventing them not only from making capital expenditures on things like tractors and other machinery, but also hurting their ability to buy fertilizer. As demand weakened, fertilizer companies, including our Mosaic MOS and Potash...
- External links 2009-12-10
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