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Randall Forsyth at Barron's posted the above column today after we published a report for Bespoke Premium members showing how the market has historically done on days when employment reports have been much stronger than expected. As shown in the report (click thumbnail below to view), prior to ...
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Steve Jobs
Barron's
S&P 500
Here at Bespoke, we track every upgrade and downgrade that comes across the wire, and over at Bespoke Premium, we put out a morning Upgrades/Downgrades report for investors that like to track the daily recommendation changes before the market opens. Since 2002, there have been about 32,000 ...
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Abercrombie & Fitch
Advanced Micro Devices
Motorola
Symantec Corporation
Intel Corporation
A couple of weeks back we highlighted how Apple Computer (AAPL) was on the verge of setting a record for the longest streak of consecutive days above its 50-day moving average (DMA). Since then, AAPL went on to break that 23-year old record, but with today's sell-off the stock is poised to end ...
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Apple Inc.
In our Economic Indicator Database (available to Premium Plus members), we've cataloged every economic indicator released since 1998 and calculated how the report came in versus expectations and how the S&P; 500 and its ten sectors performed on the release date. From the database, we pulled the ...
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Steve Jobs
S&P 500
The smart money indicator is an old market indicator based on the premise that the emotional investors buy or sell in the morning on the latest headlines, while the so-called smart money waits for the dust to settle and trades later in the day towards the close. Using this indicator, it's a ...
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Day Trader
We released this B.I.G. Tips report to Bespoke Premium members a couple of days ago and have decided to publish it here as well. The current decade has certainly been a struggle for developed nations! Click here to become a Premium member today and begin receiving our widely followed B.I.G. Tips ...
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Earlier today, Bloomberg announced its rankings of Wall Street's top economic forecasters over the last two years. And the winner is...Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs. Congratulations on some great calls. Conspiracy theorists out there are just wondering why the accuracy score wasn't higher given ...
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Michael Bloomberg
Goldman Sachs
This morning's news-flow on November same store sales show that November was not friendly month for the malls. Of the 24 companies issues results, only eight (33%) showed an increase versus November of last year. It's hard to believe that retailers couldn't post better sales than last year when ...
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Gap Inc.
Nordstrom
Kohl's
Ross Dress For Less
A couple of weeks ago, we noted that Goldman Sachs had been uncharacteristically underperforming the market. Throughout the rally, both Goldman and Apple had been market leaders, but Goldman was curiously left behind as the S&P; 500 hit new highs in November. Now it looks like Apple is beginning ...
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Apple Inc.
S&P 500
Goldman Sachs
The news out of Dubai this week and last has primarily been focused on the country's debt, so we decided to take a look at how stocks in Dubai have performed both recently and over the last six years. The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) General Index is the main equity index in Dubai, and it starts ...
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From our list of more than 200 key ETFs across all asset classes, four gold ETFs are trading the furthest above their 50-day moving averages. The gold miners ETF, GDX, is trading the furthest above its 50-day out of all of the ETFs we track at +14.96%. Three ETFs that track the actual metal ...
Commodities
Gold
The S&P; 500 has broken out of its recent range to trade at new bull market highs this morning. While the index had similar monthly patterns for each of the last three months, December is starting out on an entirely different path. As shown in the chart below, in each of the last three months, ...
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S&P 500
The S&P; 500 is down 24.5% so far this decade on a price basis, which is much worse than the Dow's decline of less than 10%. But only three of the ten S&P; 500 sectors have underperformed the index as a whole in the 2000s -- Telecom, Technology, and Financials. Telecom and Technology led the way ...
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S&P 500
The Financial Modelers' Manifesto
bespokeinvest.com - 4 days ago
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While the official start to the next decade
isn't until 1/1/2011, the media typically starts and ends...
its decade coverage when the "9" in the year rolls back to "0". Over the next few weeks, investors will surely get their fair share of decade ...
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The Ugly Decade
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Abnormal Returns
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Japan's pledge of a new round of quantitative easing to weaken the yen has caused another push into hard assets by investors. As a result, the price of gold touched $1,200 per ounce overnight. If it seems like just last month that gold was pushing through $1,100, it was. Some may look at this ...
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Gold
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Below we highlight how often the Dow has
had positive returns by month over the last 100...
years. As shown, the Dow has had gains in December 71% of the time, which is the best month by a wide margin. The next closest months are January and August at ...
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What's In Store For December?
Bespoke's Paul Hickey will appear on CNBC's Street Signs today at 2:00 PM ET to discuss the current market events surrounding Dubai.
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After the market selloff last Friday, the percentage of stocks above their 50-day moving averages in the S&P; 500 currently stands at 56%. As shown in the first chart below, market breadth, at least by this measure, has been very poor over the past few weeks. During prior rallies within this ...
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Day Trader
S&P 500
The Bespoke Premium service has quickly become a go-to source that market pros use on a daily basis. Our unique research and presentation methods are what make Bespoke Premium stand out from the rest of the subscription services out there. And at just $1/day, the cost can't be beat either. For ...
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The Dow is currently on pace to have its second biggest decline on the day after Thanksgiving since it became an official federal holiday in 1941. As shown below, the biggest decline on the day after Thanksgiving came in 1987 when the index fell 1.87%. At that point, markets were still digesting ...
