Transports Signal Trouble
Our chart of the Dow Transports compared to the Dow Industrials indicates that the transports are breaking down on a relative basis. Resistance established...
Stocks for the Long-Run
Jeremy Siegel, the famous Wharton School finance professor coined the phrase “stocks for the long-run” with his identically titled 1994 best seller, Stocks for...
VIDEO: Do Earnings Surprises Matter?
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The Quarterly Earnings Con Job
Is it just me or has the quarterly earnings season become nauseating? At Young Research we try to spend as little time as possible...
Facebook’s Fatal Flaw Exposed
Has he gone mad? Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO announced this week that his social networking company is buying Instagram. Facebook is paying $1 billion—a...
Top 10 S&P 500 Stocks: 2012
Valuable insights on the character of a bull run in stocks can be gained by investigating the companies leading the rally. The table below...
The 2012 Stock-Market Outlook
Barron’s released its 2012 stock-market outlook this weekend. In the issue, Barron’s surveyed 10 Wall Street strategists on the outlook for the U.S. stock...
Not Your Father’s Stock Market
This is not your father’s stock market. Over the last 10 years, the structure of the U.S. equity market has changed drastically. Gone are...
Diverging Performance
The S&P 500 hit a cyclical bull market high on April 29 of this year. During a volatile session on Tuesday, the index dipped...
Have Stocks Bottomed?
After busting through its previous support level of 1,200, the S&P 500 dropped to an intraday low of 1,100 in early August. As we...