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May 28th 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 (N) 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 (N) Smart Money Tracker (-) StockAdvisors.com  Traders-Talk  ValuePlays  VIX and More (N) Wall St. Cheat Sheet  Wall Street Sector Selector  Wishing Wealth (+) Zentrader (+)

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.

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)

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.

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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 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 (+)

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.

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 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)