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2010.08.14 16:36:29

The first and second quarter of 2010 could be seen as having generated a mixed response, however, if we put it in perspective with last year's performance, I think 2010 could have performed much worse.
We are now below the S&P500 value on January 4th, but not too far below. The market started well, but......

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   S&P 500 | investing | short | shorting
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2010.06.18 17:19:40

Companies listed on the S&P 500 have a record pile of cash on hand, and everybody wonders what they will do with it.
Looking at the unemployment rate figures in the US, it does not look like the companies spend the cash on creating jobs. Instead, those companies are looking at two possibilities: First,......

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   cash | buy-back | S&P 500 | investing
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2010.03.10 17:47:39

It has been year since the S&P touched the bottom on March 9, 2009. Since then, an explosive growth of 75% annualized return has shown the path to confidence.
However, nothing is to be taken for granted now. The run was led by cheap money given to banks to start lending again, but they slashed the money......

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   rally | inflation | sideways | S&P 500
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2010.01.26 22:01:06

2009 was a great year. Stock markets rising faster than the tide at Mt Saint Michel, something I did not see in my (young) life, but what is it going to be in 2010?
It looks like, in the short term, it is going to go down. Analysts will talk of correction, but what are the underlying factors? Liquidity......

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   stock market | bankers | hedge fund | TARP | shorting | bear | short | S&P 500 | economy
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2008.10.12 17:22:15

Since Yahoo Finance provides us with free data on the stock market, I decided to download the historical data for the S&P 500, put it in an Excel chart and do some analysis on it. The chart is given hereunder and it tells you already much about the last 10 years. 
First of all, we are back at the level......

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   fund managers | ETF | mutual funds | S&P 500
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