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 Is a Bull Market on the Horizon? 

Lower rates and commodity prices and stocks that looks cheap could trigger a run

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Oct 9, 08 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apocalyptic attitudes abound, but weed through the financial doom and gloom and you'll find a few economists who think we've bottomed out, and that a bull market is up next, writes Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times . The Dow has dropped 34.6% in the last year, but recent signs—bargain-basement interest rates, yesterday's coordinated rate cut, reduced commodities prices—point to a turnaround, say some. More »

 Volatile Market
 Hooked on
 Testosterone 

Study pinpoints role of bullish hormone in boorish traders

Daily Telegraph (UK) Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 15, 08 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The buying and selling of the world's wealth is at the mercy of aggressive men and their hormonal fluctuations, neuroscientists have discovered. While that doesn't come as a big surprise, the study isolates the major role that testosterone plays in making boorish traders exceptionally bullish—and the part the hormone cortisol plays in slumps, reports the Daily Telegraph . More »

More about:  stock market • Wall Street • men • hormones • medical study • bear market • testosterone • bull market • risky trading • hormone therapy • masculinity

Goldman Sachs Switches Forecasters

'Belle of the bull market' Cohen has more pessimistic successor

Bloomberg Bloomberg Mar 18, 08 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Goldman Sachs has replaced its famously bullish chief forecaster, Abby Joseph Cohen,  with a less upbeat analyst, Bloomberg reports. Cohen will remain as senior investment strategist, handing over the daily predictions to David Kostin. Kostin sees a decline for the S&P 500 to 1160 in the short run, and a rebound to 1,380 by year's end. Cohen, by contrast, predicted in December that the index would reach 1,675 in 2008. More »

More about:  recession • Goldman Sachs • markets • financial markets • bear market • Standard and Poor • bull market

5 Signs That Augur the Fall of the Bull

A look at reliable indicators that the bear market is ascendant

CNN CNN Aug 20, 07 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - After reaching a high in mid-July, the Dow has taken a sharp downturn. But how do you know when the bloom is off the rose? Here are Money magazine's five signs that usually precede a fall: Sudden surge in oil prices Treasury yields run up More »

More about:  list • stock market • US economy • economics • crash • bear market • bull market

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