Currencies
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Mark Mobius: China to Benefit from Brexit
On CNBC this week, emerging markets expert Mark Mobius, said Brexit would benefit eastern...
- Posted July 2, 2016
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Marc Faber Expects a Bear Market to Unfold
During an interview with Fox Business News Network's Maria Bartiromo, longtime market observer Marc...
- Posted August 20, 2015
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Commodities Approach Previous Area of Bottoming
The blog The Short Side of Long has posted a chart demonstrating the devastation...
- Posted March 19, 2015
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Stephen Roach is Worried About an Emerging Markets Contagion
Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow at Yale University, was interviewed on CNBC this week and...
- Posted September 10, 2013
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Jim Rickards Comments on the Ongoing Currency Battles
Jim Rickards, senior manager director at Tangent Capital and author of Currency Wars: The...
- Posted May 14, 2013
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Marc Faber’s Outlook for 2013
Publisher of the Gloom Boom and Doom Report, Marc Faber, was interviewed by CNBC’s...
- Posted January 8, 2013
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Sorkin’s Series of Interviews with Ray Dalio
CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewed successful hedge fund manager Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates...
- Posted September 21, 2012
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iShares Silver Mining ETF Increased
With interest rates creeping up and the US Dollar Index...
- January 12, 2021
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Charles Nenner Sees Bear Market in Oil For 2019
Charles Nenner, founder and president of Charles Nenner Research Center,...
- December 9, 2018
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Dennis Gartman Says Stocks Going Higher
Dennis Gartman, editor of The Gartman Letter, was on CNBC...
- August 29, 2016
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Mark Mobius: China to Benefit from Brexit
On CNBC this week, emerging markets expert Mark Mobius, said...
- July 2, 2016
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Marc Faber Expects a Bear Market to Unfold
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- August 20, 2015
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iShares Global REIT ETF Sold
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- January 20, 2021
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- January 12, 2021
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- April 25, 2013
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Alarming Chart of the Stock Markets of 1987 and 2012-2013
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T.T.S. Fear Index
Date | Index | SMA Comment |
1/20/2021 | 2.3 | Massive stimulus and Fed support have nearly eliminated fear |
3/23/2020 | 7.0 | Coronavirus and oil price war panic investors to the highest level of fear since October 2011 |
12/26/2019 | 2.3 | Lowest level of fear in nearly two years (January 2018) |
12/21/2018 | 6.7 | Raised fears likely setting up a buying opportunity |
1/11/2018 | 1.8 | Unusually low fear could mean we're near the top in valuations |
1/13/16 | 6.3 | Terrible start to 2016 raised fears |
10/3/11 | 8.5 | A good tradable bottom (S&P 500 @ 1,085) based on lots of nonsense |
3/9/09 | 7.0 | Market bottom (S&P 500 @ 666); end of the world was nigh |
10/27/08 | 8.8 | Market had dropped 28% in 5 weeks, Paulson pulled out all stops to save Wall Street bankers |
10/12/07 | 3.2 | Market top (S&P 500 @ 1,562); worldwide housing bubble pricked |
Year-to-Date Performance as of February 24, 2021
Index/Portfolio | YTD % |
SMA Portfolio | 18.7% |
S&P 500 | 4.8% |
U. S. Small Caps | 12.2% |
Total U. S. Stock Market | 6.0% |
Total Int'l Stock Market | 6.0% |
Total U. S. Bond Market | -2.4% |