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CITI PRESENTS Tobias Levkovich's Favorite Chart, Which Screamed BUY Last October
Citigroup just published and distributed its Global Equity Quarterly report to clients. Robert Buckland, Citi's Chief Global Equity Strategist, recommends being underweight U.S. equities since he...
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Citi's Levkovich: 'I For The Life Of Me Don't Understand Why People Are...
Tobias Levkovich, Citi's top U.S. Equity Strategist, is concerned earnings expectations for the second half of 2012 are too hopeful. However, he still think stocks are much more attractive than bonds....
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CITI: The VIX Provides No 'Edge' To Traders
In recent years, the VIX – aka the volatility index, aka the fear index – has become a popular tool among investors who are looking to gauge market sentiment, and ultimately use it to predict the...
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CITI: PANIC RESURFACES
One of our favorite stock market sentiment indicators is the Citigroup Panic/Euphoria Model. Indeed, it's the favored metric of Tobias Levkovich, Citi's top U.S. equity strategist. The model is a...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Stocks Priced In Gold Since 1886
Citigroup's chief U.S. equity strategist Tobias Levkovich on the (cautious) case for buying stocks at current valuations: ...Yet, as we have shown in the past, the longer-term argument for equities...
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Citi's 'Panic-Euphoria Model' Predicts A 96% Chance Stocks Are Higher In 12...
Citigroup's proprietary Panic-Euphoria model is closely watched, especially after it successfully predicted a 98 percent chance of a double-digit return in stocks last October. Tobias Levkovich,...
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CITI: The Rise And Fall Of The Equity Cult
The Financial Times had two pieces this week talking about the "death of equities." Barron's Michael Santoli offered his rebuttal on Saturday saying that the FT's observations where late and the...
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CITI: Investors Are In Full Freakout Mode
Citi's Tobias Levkovich is out with his latest update to the firm's proprietary Panic/Euphoria model. In a nutshell, panic is high, and that's extremely bullish of stocks. From Levkovich's note to...
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CITI: America's Age Is About To Hit The Sweet Spot For Stocks
This is one of the more counterintuitive ideas that has been put out there. And we've written about it before. Citi's Tobias Levkovich argues that America's aging population is actually heading...
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Citi Sees A Year-End Rally In The 'Living Large' Index (WMT, MCD, AXP, TIF,...
During good times, stocks of companies targeting high-end consumers tend to outperform those catering to low-end consumers, according to Tobias Levkovich, Citi's U.S. equity strategist. To better...
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CITI: There's A 97% Chance That Stocks Are Going To Shoot Higher (SPY)
Tobias Levkovich, Citi's top U.S. equity strategist says there are many indicators, both short and intermediate, that show that markets are "poised to rally this summer into the fall" despite concerns...
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CITI: 'The Horns Are Growing Back For This Resurrected Bovine'
Citi's Tobias Levkovich is out with a note that, in contrast with some other strategists, is very bullish on the prospects for a rally over the next few months. Though concerned by weakening global...
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Here Are 2 Reasons To Be Optimistic About US Jobs
The June jobs report this morning was disappointing. U.S. companies added a measly 80k jobs, and the unemployment rate continues to sit at 8.2 percent. The jobs number has missed economists...
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The Last Time Wall Street Was This Negative, We Were In A Recession
As second quarter earnings season begins, companies are slashing earnings guidance at rates not seen in the last three years. Tobias Levkovich, who heads Citi's U.S. equity strategy research, points...
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CITI: People Who Talk Trash About Stocks Usually Ignore 3 Key Points
Last week there was a pretty high-profile debate between Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel – who is famous for the "Siegel constant," or the idea that stocks return an average of 6.6 percent per...
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CITI: Corporations Don't Seem Too Worried About The Fiscal Cliff
The latest note from Citi's Tobias Levkovich takes a close look at the Fiscal Cliff – the expiration of a slew of government tax cuts and spending programs. Should the U.S. go off the cliff, it could...
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September Is The Worst Month For Stocks
Lately, stocks have exhibited extraordinarily low volume as they have grinded higher. Meanwhile, the volatility index (VIX) has fallen to five-year lows, which has left analysts wondering if...
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CITI: Investors Have Stopped Panicking
The Panic/Euphoria model might be the most popular metric produced by Citi's equity strategy team. It's a contrarian indicator that sends a buy signal when it points to panic. And its track record...
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Citi Made A Huge Bullish Call On Stocks For 2013
Citi's Tobias Levkovich just unveiled his 2013 target for the S&P 500 and it's bullish. He see the index hitting 1,615, which is a more than 12 percent gain of current levels. Of course, Levkovich...
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CITI: The Link Between Chinese And US Stocks Is Broken
Bond god Jeff Gundlach will be hosting one of his popular webcasts this afternoon. On the call, Gundlach will certainly address his favorite chart: the Shanghai Composite index. He regularly argues...
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