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Frederick J. Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and "The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond…

Here are a bunch of the participants from this year's Barron's Investor Roundtable discussion talking to Michael Santoli about the ideas they expressed.

"Whatever political party holds the white house wants to get re-elected. So it's going to do whatever it can to make the economy look good on election day" -Mark Hulbert This is how I see things as well. The question, of…

I have just finished reviewing Byron Wien's Ten Surprises for 2010. Now, I present you Byron Wien's Ten Surprises for 2011. He is bullish again. Enjoy.   -Byron R. Wien, Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory Partners, today issued his…

Byron Wien had a stellar record in 2009, accurately predicting the effect of a rather robust second half recovery across a broad range of markets. However, Byron Wien's Ten Surprises for 2010 were well off the mark. Before we review I will…

The PMI Index for the December 2010 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® released this morning increased to 57.0% from 56.6% in November. With 50 seen as the demarcation between expansion and contraction, the report shows a manufacturing…

Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., tells Bloomberg's Pimm Fox that the companies doing the best in the retail space are the luxury retailers like Saks(SKS), Tiffany (TIF), Coach (COH). The implication is that…

We are now seeing almost all our sell signals go off and we recommend clients hedge portfolios and reduce market exposure. We have advised clients in the past to hedge their portfolios and reduce exposure when all our sell signals have gone…

This comes from Andy Lees of UBS: A few weeks ago I sent out a note highlighting that the Nasdaq was approaching its post 1974 trend line from which the average movement has been 24.06% in the subsequent couple of months. At the time I…

by Comstock Partners After an 86 percent gain in 21 months the market looks overbought, overextended and overvalued. Furthermore the economy is unlikely to grow enough to reduce unemployment, lead the Fed to raise the funds rate or cause…