Recent Posts Tagged With 'market stats'

• Too Few Bears Spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 12:13 in equities, market stats

  Via The Big Picture Albert Edwards of Société Générale makes the simple contrarian argument that the low number of equity bears is a bad sign for equities: “The current extremely low number of equity bears (the lowest since the market...

• NEWSLETTER WRITERS ARE INCREASINGLY BULLISH

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 06:56 in equities, market stats

  This week's sentiment survey from Investors Intelligence showed that bullish sentiment among newsletter writers is near its highest levels since the March lows (50.6%), while bearish sentiment is at a five-year low (17.6%).  This puts the spread bet...

• TOP LINE NUMBERS NOT BAD

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 08:14 in equities, earnings, market stats

  With everyone worried about the top line revenue numbers this earnings season, we've been tracking this data closely.  As shown below, 59% of US companies have beaten revenue estimates this quarter, which is the highest reading over the last 5 earni...

• Investing in the \'Show-me-the-Money" Phase

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 08:35 in equities, market stats

  From Scotia Capital ■  Our blended ISM index (75% services and 25% manufacturing) should hit 52.2 in October compared to 37.2 last year. Our blended ISM has been hovering above 50 since September 2008 (Exhibit 1). ■ The U.S. economy red...

• Technicals at Odds with Fundamentals

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 06:49 in technical analysis, equities, market stats

  The technical backdrop for equities has turned challenging in the span of just a few short weeks. Many broad-based equity benchmarks are breaking established multi-month uptrends, while internal market dynamics are weakening as evidenced by the d...