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Courtesy of our friend and frequent guest writer Sy Harding, here’s his 2011 economic and stock market outlook. Regular readers know that Sy usually errs on the side of caution, so like me, you may be a bit surprised to see him casting his lot with the bullish forecast camp – though he does not […]
Investors sure are in a good mood this Holiday season! But how long can this extreme bullish mood last? We turn to Sy Harding for his thoughts as we head into the Christmas holiday…but a quick heads up, these exuberant individual investors may have you reaching for the egg nog! —- ’Tis a Season To […]
Courtesy of Sy Harding, who shares my bullish dollar sentiment (at least for the intermediate term). Sy writes in his latest Street Smart Report: U.S. Dollar. We remain on the buy signal for the dollar. Our buy signal was based mostly on the short-term charts and indicators. They turned positive when the dollar reached the […]
Being Street Smart by Sy Harding Here’s What Investors Should Be Watching! November 19, 2010. The market is in what is usually its favorable season of November to May, when it typically makes most of its gains each year. But it hasn’t been that way so far. Among other worries, analysts are concerned that the […]
GDP Report Good for Main Street – Maybe Not for Wall Street. By Sy Harding, Editor, Street Smart Report October 29, 2010. The long-awaited report on economic growth in the third quarter was released Friday morning, and was a somewhat pleasant surprise. After declining from an annualized growth rate of 5.0% in the fourth quarter […]
Is the Fed Sorry It Promised QE2? October 11, 2010 by Sy Harding, Editor of the Street Smart Report The Fed has had stocks and gold spiking up since early September, and the dollar plunging, first on hints that it might consider providing another round of ‘quantitative easing’ if the economic recovery continued to worsen, and […]
Today, stocks were up again – and on low volume, again. There is speculation that this surprisingly resilient rally is predicated on bets that the Fed will act to protect the economic recovery – or whatever you’d call this thing! For a look at the wagers being placed on potential Fed action, we turn to […]
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