Clips from Today’s Halftime Report
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What I’m reading this morning
Clips from Today’s Halftime Report
Masters In Business: Barry Ritholtz Interviews Jeff Saut
Barry sat down with Jeff Saut for this weekend’s newest edition of Masters In Business on Bloomberg Radio. The chief strategist for Raymond James has been involved with the markets and writing commentary for four decades. He weighs in on the current bull market (which he believes is secular) and discusses his process in the…
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What I’m reading this morning
Yeah I said it…
You guys liked this one, apparently: How determined is the Fed to keep asset prices elevated? They’re literally arresting bears on Wall Street. pic.twitter.com/eYpZM0enno — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) September 23, 2014 See you in the am.
Investors as Insects
How many brilliant investing insights can we glean from watching the behavior of ants, bees and other “social” instincts? How many similarities can be seen between a hive of bee activity and a huddle of investors? A column of ants marching forth and a mob of traders pursuing a trend? Wall Street Journal: Social insects excel…
Chart o’ the Day: The Dollar’s Impact on the S&P 500
Here’s a really key insight from my friend Ari Wald, technical analyst at Oppenheimer Asset Management… You’re hearing a lot about divergences right now because the internals on the S&P 500, here at all-time highs again, are blatantly bad. The same is going on market-wide. Only 65 percent of the S&P 1500’s stocks are above…