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Percentage of Stocks Above 50-Day Moving Averages

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:45:00 +0000

With the S&P; 500 moving back above its 50-day moving average, the percentage of stocks in the index above their 50-days is unsurprisingly back above 50% -- 51% to be exact. But there are still a few sectors that have failed to get this 50-day indicator back above 50%. The Financial sector ranks ...

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Norberg on the Financial Crisis…. GREAT!!

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:34:42 +0000

FF Among the many books I read during my recent travels, I strongly recommend Johan Norberg’s truly excellent diagnosis of (and prescriptions for) the financial crisis: Financial Fiasco: How America’s Infatuation with Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis . It’s far better ...

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Are finance professors to blame for the financial crisis (Part 2)?

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:26:51 +0000

Titan of academic finance Gene Fama writes in his blog : The premise of the Fox book is that our current economic problems are largely due to blind acceptance of the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), which posits that market prices reflect all available information. The claim is that the ...

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House Financial Services Committee

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:41:25 +0000

Mr. Richard Trumka , President, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations The Honorable Richard Baker , President and Chief Executive Officer, Managed Funds Association The Honorable Phillip Swagel , Visiting Professor, McDonough School of Business Georgetown ...

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Interesting Article

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:30:12 +0000

I ran across an academic article recently that I haven't had time to read yet, but thought I would share it with readers of this blog. The Financial Crisis as a Symbol of the Failure of Academic Finance? and it's available here . This excerpt from the abstract drew my attention: "Theoretical ...

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Calomiris on the Financial Crisis

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:05:35 +0000

"Time to buy or just buying time? The market reaction to bank rescue packages" , by Michael R King. BIS Working Paper, No. 288, September, 2009. "Regulating Bankers' Pay" , by Lucian A. Bebchuk and Holger Spamann. October 2009. Georgetown Law Journal, forthcoming. Harvard Law and Economics ...

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Rosenberg: Stocks “overvalued by at least 20%”

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:40:00 +0000

The stock market has become overheated since exploding off its March lows and could be in for a strong correction, economist David Rosenberg told CNBC. Click through for the video clip.

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Niall Ferguson: US empire in decline, on collision course with China

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:34:00 +0000

“The US is an empire in decline, according to Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor and author of The Ascent of Money ,” reported Aaron Task of Yahoo Finance - Tech Ticker .“People have predicted the end of America in the past and been wrong,” Ferguson concedes. “But let’s face it: If you’re trying ...

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