Marc Faber: Don’t Underestimate the Power of Money Printing to Lift Stocks Another economist and hedge fund manager of the highest of tiers, Marc Faber of Marc Faber Limited, announced on Bloomberg Television his “bet” is on stocks to rally from now until late April. While the chorus of analysts was singing the dollar blues, [...]

Explosive Rallies Come from Bear Market Bottoms, Says Sam Stovall of Standard & Poor’s With the Standard & Poor’s 500 index down better than 52% from its October 2007 peak, “bottom callers” have come out of their bomb shelters to seek public record of their latest call, with helmets firmly strapped as insurance, of course. [...]

Bold assertions of 8% Chinese gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecasts from its Premier, Wen Jiabao and the country’s central bank governor have captured the attention of economists and the media this week. China’s leadership plans to be “fast and heavy-handed” in its policies to regain confidence in the world’s third-largest economy, said China central [...]

There’s a lot of Noise Telling You to Do Just That If you’re an index investor, you may want to cut your losses. It appears that the Dow Theory sell signal has gathered momentum, waiting now for the final capitulation. But during this downsizing or rightsizing of the Dow to levels that match the reality [...]