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May 21, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

JNJ Up 20 Weeks in a Row!!

Another bit of interesting market triva: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has climbed for the past 20 consecutive weeks. Of the current S&P 500 members, only two other names have even come close to such a streak since 1982. Home Depot (HD) gained for 18 weeks ending on 5/4/12 and Oracle (ORCL) rose for 18 weeks ending 2/12/99.

May 22, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

DJIA Up 19 Tuesdays in a Row

The DJIA has been up 19 Tuesdays in a row. Need some trivia? Records for consecutive positive days of the week (since 1930).

Monday 13 (2/1/10)

Tuesday 19 (5/21/13)

Wednesday 13 (9/3/86, 4/26/06)

Thursday 12 (2/4/82, 6/19/08)

Friday 13 (7/22/55)

May 21, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Wall Street Analysts See the Most Upside In...

Out of all the names in the S&P 500, analysts are the most bullish (in terms of price target) on BTU (+38.4%), NFX (+37.7%) and CTSH (+30.2%) over the next twelve months.

May 21, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

May 20th Blogger Sentiment Poll

Blogger Sentiment Poll Participants:

24/7 Wall St (N) The Aleph Blog (-) Biiwii (-) BullBear Trading (+) Carl Futia (+) Dash of Insight (+) Dividend Growth Investor (N) Elliot Wave Lives On (+) Expected Returns Fallond Stock Picks (+) Global Economic Intersection (-) GEI – Investing Blog (-) Humble Student of the Markets (+) In the Money Learning Curve (-) MaoXian Night Owl Trader (+) The Mess That Greenspan Made Peridot Capitalist (-) Prometheus Market Insight PUG Stock Market Analysis (-) Quant Investor (N) Shanky’s Tech Blog Short Takes (+) Smart Money Tracker (+) StockAdvisors.com Traders-Talk (+) ValuePlays VIX and More (N) Wall St. Cheat Sheet Wall Street Sector Selector Wishing Wealth (+) Zentrader (+)

May 20, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

May 13th Blogger Sentiment Poll

Blogger Sentiment Poll Participants:

24/7 Wall St (-) The Aleph Blog (-) Biiwii (-) BullBear Trading Carl Futia (-) Dash of Insight (+) Dividend Growth Investor (N) Elliot Wave Lives On (+) Expected Returns Fallond Stock Picks (-) Global Economic Intersection (-) GEI – Investing Blog (-) Humble Student of the Markets (+) In the Money Learning Curve (-) MaoXian Night Owl Trader (+) The Mess That Greenspan Made Peridot Capitalist (-) Prometheus Market Insight PUG Stock Market Analysis (N) Quant Investor Shanky’s Tech Blog (N) Short Takes (+) Smart Money Tracker (N) StockAdvisors.com Traders-Talk ValuePlays VIX and More (-) Wall St. Cheat Sheet Wall Street Sector Selector (-) Wishing Wealth (+) Zentrader (+)

May 13, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

ETF Inflows Continue in April and Total Assets Rise to $1.5T

ETFs (including ETNs, ETPs, etc) experienced a net inflow of $9.5B in April while total assets rose 1.7% to $1.49T.

May 10, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Are Stocks Cheap? A Review of the Evidence

Fernando Duarte and Carlo Rosa We surveyed banks, we combed the academic literature, we asked economists at central banks. It turns out that most of their models predict that we will enjoy historically high excess returns for the S&P 500 for the next five years. But how do they reach this conclusion? Why is it that the equity premium is so high? And more importantly: Can we trust their models?

via libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org

May 08, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

May 6th Blogger Sentiment Poll

Blogger Sentiment Poll Participants:

24/7 Wall St (-) The Aleph Blog (-) Biiwii BullBear Trading (+) Carl Futia (-) Dash of Insight (+) Dividend Growth Investor (+) Elliot Wave Lives On (+) Expected Returns Fallond Stock Picks (+) Global Economic Intersection (-) GEI – Investing Blog (-) Humble Student of the Markets (+) In the Money Learning Curve (-) MaoXian Night Owl Trader (+) The Mess That Greenspan Made Peridot Capitalist (-) Prometheus Market Insight PUG Stock Market Analysis (N) Quant Investor (N) Shanky’s Tech Blog Short Takes (+) Smart Money Tracker (+) StockAdvisors.com Traders-Talk ValuePlays VIX and More (N) Wall St. Cheat Sheet Wall Street Sector Selector (N) Wishing Wealth (+) Zentrader (N)

May 06, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Defensive Sectors Leading... So What!!!

More than a few have grumbled (including us) over the fact that the much thought of defensive sectors (health care, consumer staples and utilities) have been the leaders this year. And last week’s WSJ story, Investors Should Beware the Dark Side of Defensive Stocks suggested that “this may feel like a bull market, but the real winners have been bear-market darlings.”

But contrary to the current thinking it is not unusual for a defensive sector to be one of the three top performing sectors in an up market.

As shown at below, there have been 26 years since 1982 where the S&P 500 was positive. In twelve of those years, health care was one of the three best performing sectors, while consumer staples was in the top three ten times. Utilities have only been best six times, but it should not surprise anyone that in a low interest environment a sector with a 3.7% yield is one of the best performing.