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This Stock Market Indicator Has Been 92% Accurate Since 1990. It Signals a Big Move Before 2025.

The Motley Fool

It is widely regarded as the single best benchmark for the domestic stock market due to its scope and diversity. Year Q3 YTD Return Q4 Return 1991 17% 8% 1995 27% 5% 1996 12% 8% 1997 28% 2% 2003 13% 12% 2009 17% 5% 2012 15% (1%) 2013 18% 10% 2017 13% 6% 2019 19% 9% 2021 15% 11% 2023 12% 11% Median N/A 8% Data source: YCharts.

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10 Wednesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Irrelevant Investor ) see also Stocks Crush ‘Year of Bond’ in Biggest Sentiment Shift Since ‘99 : Fixed income underwhelms as Teflon economy strands bears More than half of JPMorgan clients now see no recession. Previously, she was a senior reporter at Wall Street Journal covering finance, investment banking and M&A.

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Are Insurance Companies Safe?

Tucker Advisors

Shortly after The Great Recession began unraveling in 2008, many people feared insurance companies would suffer the same fate as investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, Wachovia and Washington Mutual. After all, no one could have predicted those banks would fail, either. Forbes; June 1, 2012 [link].

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

The fair market value of the cap is what the carrier paid the investment bank to buy the 10% cap. It would be logical to look at the fair market value of what the carrier spends for the cap. He is also the Executive Editor of The Life Product Review since 2012. Let’s supposed for a minute the cap is 10%.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. So when stock markets were first open, to attract investors to buy stocks, they had to be disguised as bonds. DAMODARAN: Yeah.

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Transcript: Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz

The Big Picture

I mean, it’s not the 220 years of stock market data. People think real estate is more stable than the stock market. SCHWARTZ: If they compressed — and the high dividend stocks had a P/E ratio higher than the market. SCHWARTZ: Avoid the investment banks, go find something of your passion.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

Now they were a little bit lower stock market performed poorly last year. 2012 Watson beat Casper off at chess. 01:24:21 [Speaker Changed] Look, the, the most obvious way to look at this is we’re coming up on the end of the fiscal year, we’re gonna have a a $2 trillion deficit for the year. Now for decades.

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