Doug Ramsey News
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Stock splits, enticements to investors in bull markets for decades, have been pushed to the brink of extinction by chief executive officers still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis.
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The biggest increase in profits in more than a century is telling investors that this is no time to sell stocks, even after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rallied 97 percent.
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The biggest quarterly increase ever in the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index pushed it above 40, a threshold exceeded only three percent of the time in 20 years and a level that has preceded stock rebounds.
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Most U.S. stocks advanced, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index higher for a second day, as optimism about takeovers outweighed a drop in technology shares following a report showing lower chip sales.
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U.S. companies, earning more from investments in plants and labor than any time in the last decade, have yet to reap the benefits in their stock valuations .
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Stocks in developed nations took 17 months longer than emerging markets to erase losses spurred by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s 2008 bankruptcy, recovering after the Federal Reserve took steps to stimulate growth.
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The highest-returning stocks of the bull market are trailing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index in September as investors book profits, anticipating that Congress will let tax cuts on capital gains expire at year-end.
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The biggest monthly drop in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since February 2009 is ratifying Mohamed El-Erian’s prediction for a new normal of below-average returns. Analysts say not so fast.
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