Richard Bernstein
Richard Bernstein
Richard Bernsteinis an American journalist, columnist, and author. He writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune. He was a book critic at The New York Times and a foreign correspondent for both Time magazine and The New York Times in Europe and Asia...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth5 May 1944
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Policy makers seem to continue to believe that they can boost demand enough to alleviate the oversupply situation. They now talk of extraordinary monetary measures and huge tax cuts to stimulate demand, ... Although their timing was admittedly very poor, Japanese policy makers attempted the same thing.
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The day that you should be concerned about the market is a day when there is no fear about what's going on. Certainly we have innumerable negatives that people can point to right now. I would argue that's actually quite healthy.
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What we're seeing today is a relief rally from last week. There is really nothing to hurt the market today. All the techs are rebounding well.
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There is a thin line between a liquidity-driven market that anticipates improving fundamentals and a bubble,
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We think there is a strong contrary message, ... at a record pace across nearly the entire industry.
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There has been record insider selling within the last 10 months across a broad range of homebuilding companies despite very few sell ratings by Wall Street analysts and the general perception by investors that the stocks are undervalued.
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Today all you're probably seeing is a weakness prior to the G8 meeting this weekend, and a lot of uncertainty in Indonesia and Asia,
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Historically, S&P 500 earnings growth, on average, has been negative when the dollar has appreciated 10 percent or more in a 12-month period.
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From our lens, the U.S. housing market has become seriously overextended and a correction looms, posing the largest risk to 2006 consumer spending.
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I don't think people realize the market has been flat for the past seven years ? people don't realize that because there have been big ups and downs. But without market volatility, the market hasn't done much.
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Because of the lack of pricing power, earnings expectations might be too optimistic, despite the fact that they are being lowered.
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