Month: November 2008

Chart: S&P 500 – Back to 1997?

Today we hit an interesting level for the S&P 500. Intraday, we moved down to decade old support levels and then as if on queue, buyers (aka the Plunge Protection Team) came in to move the markets back up, turning a significant loss into a reasonable gain.

While that appeared to...

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Audio: Horowitz /Dvorak Unplugged #7

From the lost archives. John C. Dvorak and Andrew talk about markets, crashes ad bailouts. There is sure to be a rant or two in there somewhere….

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Links and Reading for November 17th

A few of the more important reading items and links for November 17th :

Goldman Targeted by Investor Complaints of Naked Short-Selling – Nasty dudes…..
Putnam Cuts 12 Money Managers as Assets Sink 39% – Mutual funds continue to struggle
GM and Ford market value no longer world class – China's...

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New York Crisis Growing Exponentially

Back in July, I raised the idea that the financial market meltdown will eventually bring with it a particularly ugly scenario for the state of New York. (See: The Big Apple is Rotten) Over the past few months, Governor David Paterson has been voicing his concern over potential budget shortfalls...

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TDI Episode 83: Tech – There Will be Blood

Guests: Eric Savitz, Barron’s and Howard Silverblatt, Standard & Poor’s both have a look at the earnings and outlook for the next few months. We discuss the opportunities along with the areas to avoid. Now is the time to set some expectations for 2009. There will be many more layoffs...

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