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Friday, 30 January 2015
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Bear Market Lessons from History
While the financial media tends to be absolutely infatuated with stocks hitting new highs every day, we would do well to pay attention to some ongoing bear markets, Charts are courtesy yahoo finance and marketwatch.com:
1) Japanese stocks continue to languish under the effects of deflation following a well over 26 year old bear market, down over 45% from the highs set in 1989.
2) Despite some great innovation out of the U.S from the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook e.t.c the #NASDAQ continues to remain in a 15 year bear market near its highs set in 2000.
3) Despite going parabolic yet again, Chinese stocks continue to remain in a 7 year bear market down well over 50% from the highs set in 2008.
4) US bank stocks are entering a 7 year bear market despite all the #QE money and super low interest rates down over 30% from their highs set in 2008.
5) The #Euro is also in a 7 year bear market down over 25% against the dollar from it's highs set in 2008.
6) #Gold and gold ETF's continue to be in bear markets down well over 35% from their highs set in 2008.
7) The more recent casualty #oil and oil ETF's are down well over 60% from their highs set in 2008.
It is well worth noting that it is no strange coincidence that there are major bear markets in several key asset classes and despite recent bear market rallies caused by the FED's QE for ever policies the hibernating bear is all set to emerge with a vengeance.
1) Japanese stocks continue to languish under the effects of deflation following a well over 26 year old bear market, down over 45% from the highs set in 1989.
2) Despite some great innovation out of the U.S from the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook e.t.c the #NASDAQ continues to remain in a 15 year bear market near its highs set in 2000.
3) Despite going parabolic yet again, Chinese stocks continue to remain in a 7 year bear market down well over 50% from the highs set in 2008.
4) US bank stocks are entering a 7 year bear market despite all the #QE money and super low interest rates down over 30% from their highs set in 2008.
5) The #Euro is also in a 7 year bear market down over 25% against the dollar from it's highs set in 2008.
6) #Gold and gold ETF's continue to be in bear markets down well over 35% from their highs set in 2008.
7) The more recent casualty #oil and oil ETF's are down well over 60% from their highs set in 2008.
It is well worth noting that it is no strange coincidence that there are major bear markets in several key asset classes and despite recent bear market rallies caused by the FED's QE for ever policies the hibernating bear is all set to emerge with a vengeance.
Bear Market Lessons From History http://t.co/TcQy3nOE0r pic.twitter.com/wNba6Jh5Ys
— samuelR (@RajveerRawlin) September 7, 2015
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Earnings Yield Suggesting Nifty still overvalued
The #Nifty currently sports a #P/E ratio (trailing) in excess of 20 (Data courtesy Sanjay Jaiswal at Market Pulse):
Invert this and you get an earnings yield of 5.0%, you can add about 1.2% for dividends bringing the total to 6.2%, the current risk free rate which is the return on 1 yr bonds is about 7.5%, so why bother investing in risky stocks to generate 6.2% when you can earn 7.5% in the bank risk free?
Invert this and you get an earnings yield of 5.0%, you can add about 1.2% for dividends bringing the total to 6.2%, the current risk free rate which is the return on 1 yr bonds is about 7.5%, so why bother investing in risky stocks to generate 6.2% when you can earn 7.5% in the bank risk free?
So despite the recent correction the market is still overvalued and will most likely fall further in the near term.
Earnings Yield Suggesting Nifty Overvalued http://t.co/6UAZyDoKWH pic.twitter.com/RYZlugF9Z5
— samuelR (@RajveerRawlin) September 4, 2015
Friday, 2 January 2015
Predictions for 2015
Dollar strength continues after a brief pause against all major currencies except the yen. With the Euro decisively breaking the long term support of 1.20.
Yen strength should result in a bout of carry trade liquidation that is a major negative for risk assets such as emerging market currencies and commodities.
Despite slowing growth in most emerging economies, policy makers have their hands tied and spend a whole lot of resources defending their weak currencies unsuccessfully with higher interest rates.
This in turn sparks a major exodus of FII money flows out of emerging economies like the BRIC countries which causes their stock markets to significantly under perform despite their terrific performance in 2014 and greedy analysts calls for more.
Volatility surges in 2015 as the Vix index doubles following a major take down of stock market indices across the globe.
Risk free assets will be among the safer bets in 2015 as risk appetites significantly wanes with treasury yields continuing to plummet with QE forever still continuing but without the desired outcomes.
Yen strength should result in a bout of carry trade liquidation that is a major negative for risk assets such as emerging market currencies and commodities.
Despite slowing growth in most emerging economies, policy makers have their hands tied and spend a whole lot of resources defending their weak currencies unsuccessfully with higher interest rates.
This in turn sparks a major exodus of FII money flows out of emerging economies like the BRIC countries which causes their stock markets to significantly under perform despite their terrific performance in 2014 and greedy analysts calls for more.
Volatility surges in 2015 as the Vix index doubles following a major take down of stock market indices across the globe.
Risk free assets will be among the safer bets in 2015 as risk appetites significantly wanes with treasury yields continuing to plummet with QE forever still continuing but without the desired outcomes.