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Citi's Levkovich: Fed-Induced Low Interest Rates Aren't Helping The Housing...
The Fed announced unlimited quantitative easing and said it would buy an additional $40 billion of agency mortgage backed securities a month. In his press conference, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said...
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The 'Echo Boom' Is One Of The Most Bullish Trends For Stocks And The US Economy
Investors and strategists mostly have mixed feelings about the short-term outlook for the markets and economy. However, most experts are bullish about longer-term trends. One trend that often gets...
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WALL STREET'S TOP STRATEGISTS: Here's Where The Stock Market Will End This Year
Here is a chart from Ticker Sense tracking the year-end S&P 500 calls for Wall Street's top equity strategists. Only Credit Suisse's Andrew Garthwaite and UBS''s Jonathan Golub had downward...
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Citi Has Invented A New Measure Of Misery And It's Incredibly Accurate At...
Citi's Chief U.S. Equity Strategist Tobias Levkovich just released his Chart of the Month, which includes a new metric to measure economic dissatisfaction. Levkovich argues that the traditional Misery...
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CITI: Stock Market Sentiment Is Perilously Close To All-Out Euphoria
Citi's Chart of the Month is an update to the firm's proprietary "Panic/Euphoria" model.Simply put, when investors are panicking, then it's probably a good time to buy. If investors are euphoric, then...
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'Invisible Buyers' Are Propping Up The Stock Market
The year started off with a lot of talk about a "great rotation" of assets out of bonds and into stocks. The theory was that this shift in everyone's portfolios would cause enormous upward pressure in...
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CITI: Here's Our Top Strategist's Favorite Chart
Citigroup's recently published its Global Equity Quarterly report to clients.It includes the favorite charts of the firm's regional strategists.Tobias Levkovich, Citi's top U.S. equity strategist,...
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CITI: Here Are The 19 Best Stocks In The Market
Citi's Tobias Levkovich is out with his latest update to his "Citi Research Recommended List."Levkovich, who has a 1,615 target for the S&P 500, touches all bases, from consumer cyclicals to...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Citi's Levkovich Sees Stocks Going A Lot Higher This Summer
The S&P 500 is higher today than it was during the height of the dotcom and credit bubbles.Does this mean investors should brace for a sell-off?Not necessarily. Especially if you believe in the...
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CITI: The Stock Market Is Getting Dangerously Close To 'Euphoria' Territory
Citi's proprietary Panic/Euphoria model has a remarkable track record for predicting the direction of the stock market based on a variety of market sentiment measures.When investor sentiment is...
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Stock Market Investors Don't Care About Macro Issues Anymore
Citi's Tobias Levkovich is increasingly worried that investors are getting a bit too excited about buying.Among other things, he notes that correlations between stocks are breaking down. In other...
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CITI: If You Think The 'Fear Index' Is Telling You To Buy Stocks, Then You...
Global financial markets got rocked this week after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that he could begin to taper, or gradual reduce, the Fed's stimulative quantitative easing...
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CITI: We're 'Shocked' By The Surge In Negative Earnings Preannouncements
The S&P 500 closed at 1,573 today, which is down over 6% from its recent all-time highs.Many have attributed much of the pullback to the hawkish tone that the Federal Reserve has recently...
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Wall Street Is Pretty Sure That Earnings Season Will Be Crappy
It's that time again when everyone prepares for earnings season, the time of year when corporations publish their quarterly financial results.In recent years, analysts and strategists across Wall...
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CITI: Stock Market Correlations Have Collapsed To A Level That Puts Us At...
Citi's top equity strategist Tobias Levkovich has published his August 2013 Chart of the Month.It looks at the correlation of the 50 largest stocks in the S&P 500. This is the degree to which...
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CITI: The VIX Is Wildly Misunderstood And Misinterpreted (VXX, VXZ)
The CBOE Implied Volatility Index, or VIX, measures the premium that option buyers pay to protect themselves against volatility.Simply put, it measures investors' expectations for big prices...
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Citi Unveils New Bullish Forecasts For The S&P And The Dow
We still have three and a half months before the year ends.But Wall Street's top stock market strategists are already publishing their new 12-month and 2014 year-end forecasts for the S&P 500 and...
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CHART OF THE DAY: This Dart Board Suggests It's A Great Time To Buy Stocks
One of the most basic measures of stock market value is the price-earnings (P/E) ratio.Generally speaking, when the P/E is low, stocks are considered cheaper.Citi's Tobias Levkovich examined 73 years...
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Citi Summarizes The Post-Deal State Of The Markets In One Brutally Sobering...
Finally, President Obama has signed into law an agreement that will raise the U.S. debt ceiling and end the government shutdown.Optimism for a deal ignited a major rally in the stock markets, which are...
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2 Profit Margin Charts You Must Understand Before You Enter The Debate About...
One of the hottest ongoing debates in the stock market is about the sustainability of historically high profit margins.High profit margins have allowed companies to amplify modest sales growth into...
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