OBGibby's Account Talk

[OBGibby]

Don't Get Too Bearish, Stocks Higher By Year End - Jeff Saut, Minyanville

 

[OBGibby]

Goldman Is Bullish on Equities

 

[OBGibby]

Biggs Boosts Bullish Stock Bet

 

[OBGibby]

Charts: More Upside Ahead

 

[OBGibby]

Everything You Know about Investing? Wrong - Paul Farrell, Marketwatch

 

[XOMek]

Everything You Know about Investing? Wrong - Paul Farrell, Marketwatch

I really enjoyed reading that. Thanks for posting. At 24, it's refreshing to hear someone say I don't have to study stock charts and subscribe to the WSJ to invest successfully.

 

[OBGibby]

This has been a tough week to be in C/S/I. Hoping for a rally tomorrow that will continue into April. Not sure what I'm going to do once I have some more IFTs next week.

 

[OBGibby]

Better Deal: Private Investment v. Social Security - Michael Tanner, Cato

 

[OBGibby]

Jeremy Siegel: Dow 17,000

Sounds good to me!!!

 

[OBGibby]

U.S. Equities Are at Most Slightly Expensive - Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

 

[OBGibby]

Success In U.S. Is a Matter of Hard Work - Dennis Prager, Investor's Business


".....In his front-page-of-the-business-section "Economic Scene" column in the New York Times last week, Eduardo Porter wrote, "The United States does less than other rich countries to transfer income from the affluent to the less fortunate." Think about that sentence for a moment. It ends oddly. Logic dictates that it should have said, "transfer income from the affluent to the less affluent," not the less fortunate.
But for Porter, as for the left generally, those who are not affluent are not merely "less affluent," they are "less fortunate...."

 

[OBGibby]

A Quarter to Remember for Global Stocks - David Callaway, MarketWatch

 

[OBGibby]

Why the Rally Isn't Over Yet By SUZANNE MCGEE, The Fiscal Times

".....If the rally isn’t over until the fat lady sings, odds are that she is only
starting to warm up for her performance."

 

[OBGibby]

The Second Oil Revolution: It's Coming - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO

".....Given that North America in general and the United States in particular might soon be completely autonomous in natural-gas production and without much need of imported oil within a decade, life as we have known it for nearly the last half-century would change radically....."

 

[OBGibby]

Who Is Route 29's Batman? This Guy. - Michael Rosenwald, Washington Post

We need more like him...

 

[OBGibby]

Recognize Decent Acts of U.S. Warriors - San Antonio Express-News

 

[OBGibby]

Warning: Beware If Apple Stumbles - Steven Russolillo, MarketBeat

".....Barclays reports about 15% of the entire S&P 500′s year-to-date performance can be traced entirely to one stock: Apple....."

“.....Apple’s disproportionate contribution to the most recent S&P 500 rally raises the question: Is it rational to expect a single stock to provide outsized contributions to the index price return?” asks Barclays’ Barry Knapp....."

 

[OBGibby]

Window Dressing Or Something More? - Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture

".....Many people seem to be crediting the market’s resilience to factors such as end of the month/quarter window dressing. I remain unconvinced....."

 

[OBGibby]

Forget the 4% Rule: Retirement's Common Wisdom Is Obsolete - DailyFinance


".....Get ready to play the retirement game even more cautiously: The common wisdom that a 4% annual withdrawal rate is the safe way to avoid outliving your money is increasingly coming under fire. In fact, it may well become a thing of the past....."

 

[OBGibby]

As Market Heads Into April, Where Is
the Pullback?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/46905431

".....April has been called the “cruelest month,” but in the past two years, it’s when
the stock market made its highs for the year....."

“.....We’ll get a pullback but I don’t think we’ll get anything disastrous,” said
Citigroup chief equities strategist Tobias Levkovich....."