market sentiment

A Welter Of Worries

By |2012-05-29T18:28:53-04:00May 28th, 2012|Commodities, Currencies, Economy, Markets|

It is said that bull markets climb a wall of worry but if that were true, then Wall and Broad should look like downtown Pamplona in July with market bears gored, trampled, spindled, mutilated and wrapped around the buttonwood tree. The list of worries for investors seems to grow by the day with slowing Chinese growth center stage one day [...]

Weekly Economic & Market Review

By |2012-04-23T12:39:18-04:00April 22nd, 2012|Economy, Markets|

The cover of Barron's this week says, Outlook: Mostly Sunny. Their Big Money poll shows 55% of the professional money managers they surveyed are bullish on the stock market. If that makes you feel similarly optimistic about the near term outlook for shares, it might interest you to know that 59% of these perennially pollyannish souls were bullish at the same [...]

Market Environment

By |2012-02-26T17:53:18-05:00February 26th, 2012|Economy, Markets|

At Alhambra, as Joe Calhoun wrote last month, we embrace the merits of both value and momentum in investing.  The decision to buy value or momentum, though, should not be made in isolation.   At Alhambra, our tactical strategies embrace long term investment solutions which incorporate value and momentum decisions based, first, upon our analysis of fundamentals and the monetary and [...]

Tactical Update

By |2012-02-06T00:21:14-05:00February 4th, 2012|Markets, Stocks|

The investment team made the decision to take advantage of recent market strength and take our risk/return perspective from extremely favorable back close to neutral.  The decision is the result of economic factors we have pegged as worthy of concern and further monitoring, a potential peak in short term investor sentiment and the uncertainty surrounding the future currency situation in [...]

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