Barton Biggs is Buying Japanese Stocks – Should You Follow Suit?

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Legendary investor Barton Biggs is back in the headlines – he’s buying Japan right now, and says this panic selling is “a gross overreaction.” Mr. Biggs says he wasn’t tempted to do any buying on Friday or Monday, but by Tuesday morning he jumped in, arguing that the Japanese economy will prove more resilient than […]

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Regular readers know that we abhor muni bonds as much as anyone.  But my interest has recently been piqued by calls for short-term rallies from sharp guys like David Rosenberg and Steve Sjuggerud, who have cited the market as oversold due to the abrupt end of the Build America Bonds program. A somewhat misleading Bloomberg […]

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Continuing on our theme from yesterday that investor sentiment has reached an extreme level of jubilation, John Hussman writes that we’ve now reached the pantheon of “awful times to invest”: In recent weeks, the U.S. stock market has been characterized by an overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising-yields syndrome that has historically been hostile to stocks. Last […]

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The “dumb money” is starting to work itself into a frenzy – Steve Sjuggerud writes in today’s DailyWealth: Today, “the Dumb Money is 71% confident in a rally,” my friend Jason Goepfert wrote. Jason tracks investor sentiment through his website SentimenTrader. The last time the Dumb Money was this optimistic was back in April, right before the […]

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While oil has been on a tear during the reflation rally, it’s cousin natural gas has not received the same love from traders.  “The Natty”, which currently is languishing around $4, couldn’t be hated more, writes Steve Sjuggerud for DailyWealth: Specifically, right now, there are more bets against natural gas by large speculators than there […]

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Jack Crooks, one of the most successful currency investors of all-time, told DailyWealth’s Steve Sjuggerud that he believes the US Dollar will perform quite well over the next few years. We take a contrarian view. We’ll get nervous when everyone loves the dollar. In our view, since people still don’t like the dollar, there are a […]

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