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The Politics of Investments

Friday, September 18, 2009   The Race from Bretton Woods Poignancy will not be lost in this edition of the strategist.  I write to you this week from Bretton Woods in New Hampshire as I prepare to embark on a ...READ»

Remember: Performance is not an outcome, it is a discipline

Friday, September 4, 2009   Cue September As if simply following the media script, markets finally pulled back again this week after relentless gains. Measuring the severity of the fall, last Friday we closed at ...READ»

Performance is not an outcome, it is a discipline...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009   "Leveling off" In the Fed’s FOMC release on Wednesday, Bernanke and Co. asserted that from their vantage point, the economy is "leveling off". This shift in language from "stabilizing" ...READ»

Buy in May and Go Away!

Wednesday, June 3, 2009   Buy in May Students of the Stock Traders Almanac will tell you that market returns over the best six month period of the year (November 1st thru April 30th) tend to trump those of ...READ»

Washington Briefing May 2009

Friday, May 8, 2009   Mr. Waddell Goes to Washington Earlier this week, Stacie and I had a terrific opportunity to travel to Washington for a comprehensive debriefing.  Through my membership in the Society of ...READ»

From Housing to Banks to Revenue...

Friday, April 24, 2009   SOU Viewing Reminder   To view the 2009 State of the Union videos on Youtube click here.   From Housing… We concluded last week’s edition of the ...READ»

This one has not gotten away!

Monday, April 20, 2009   Waddell Stimulus Package The family trip to Disney World has done wonders for Disney shares.  Our adventure last week drove them up 8%.  Orlando appears to be recession resistant ...READ»

Showtime!

Monday, February 9, 2009 Showtime I remember having breakfast with one of our treasured clients on Thursday, September 18th.  He asked me if I felt that the markets could repair themselves.  I responded emphatically, ...READ»

Super Bowl Indicators

Sunday, February 1, 2009   Bravo!  If you haven’t picked up a copy of Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, please do.  It reads like Hemingway.  I laughed, I cried, I liked it better than "Cats."  The world suffers no ...READ»

Returns: Don't BANK On It!

Anxieties around the banking sector have once again paralyzed the markets. With Citigroup and Bank of America trading like lottery tickets and negative surprises emanating from State Street and others, we seem to be right back ...READ»

Economic Stimulus: We Cannot Afford To Not Afford It

Monday, January 19, 2009 IOUSA Markets declined precipitously last week as the kick off of 4th quarter earnings season validated expectations that there would be no corporate earnings, and the banking system received its first cash ...READ»

GE's New Ecomagineer Spills It

GE mirrors the American economy much better than most companies -- for good and ill. Last year, the credit squeeze assailed GE Capital, its financial-services arm; the company missed an earnings prediction, driving the stock price ...READ»

• Water Desalination: The Answer to the World's Thirst?

For Investors in 2009, Flat is the new Up!

Monday, January 12, 2009 Happy New Year! The best thing I have to say about 2008 is that it’s over.  The stock market logged its worst performance since 1931 and the non-government related bond market had its worst year ever.  ...READ»

Government Claus

Monday, December 22, 2008 Government Claus Monetary and fiscal favors showered Wall Street last week, even though they should have been on the naughty list. In completely unprecedented action, the Federal Reserve dropped their ...READ»

The 4 Horsemen of Recovery: Investor, Lender, Consumer and Multiplier

Monday, December 8, 2008 Motion vs. Movement In a Mid-October Insight we offered the following prediction: I believe we have now entered purgatory. Valuations are low enough, but we have too much uncertainty to expect an immediate ...READ»

Thanksgiving Week Roundup: Markets and The Economy

Friday, November 28, 2008 In a shortened week that received absolutely dismal economic news, Washington awoke from its most recent policy slumber and made real progress in the War on Scarcity. President-elect Obama must be ...READ»

Should We Invest With "Great Expectations?"

Monday, November 24, 2008 Holiday Discounters Investment markets of every type continue to discount their inventories to try to lure shoppers. It’s clearly demonstrated by dwindling trading volumes that investment shoppers remain ...READ»

What To Do When You're In The Investment Rapids...

With the political world in turbulence, how can we expect anything different from the markets? Due to the political transition, the uncertainties surrounding fiscal stimulus, tax policy, regulatory policy, trade policy, and leverage standards, many participants don’t know the rules of the game any more.READ»

The "O"nknown: The Challenges Ahead for Obama

Congratulations, President-elect Obama.  You have defied the odds, rewritten history and inspired a nation.  But while we will always remember the pomp and circumstance of your arrival, you might well find that you prefer the ...READ»

The Financial Roundup: An October To Forget

Investor returns for the month of October have been frightening. The S&P 500 shed 15% this month and registered historic volatility. Of the 23 trading days in the month, only 7 closed positive. They were resoundingly positive, however.READ»

Investing Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint

Sound and Fury Markets continued their volatile ways last week. We began with a 400 point up day on Monday and ended with a 300 point down day on Friday. In between, we had a series of wild swings, exacerbated by large hedge ...READ»

The Worldly Investor, David S. Waddell

Friday, October 17, 2008 Purgatory This week, hope re-entered the picture. After the most punishing decline in stock prices since the Great Depression, the markets heeded the call in last Friday’s email and went up ...READ»

The Worldly Investor, David S. Waddell

Weekly Strategic Insight Friday, October 10, 2008 Rubber Room It would be an understatement to call this market period unprecedented. All of the economic, fundamental and technical research cannot explain the ...READ»

China Surpasses U.S. as Leader in Sub-Sahara

That the West is losing the sub-Sahara does not come as news in Africa itself. One leader after another has been explicit on this point, from Senegal's president ("Today, it is very clear that Europe is close to losing the ...READ»