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...Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, said investors are worried about the possibility of further stress in the regional banking sector....
...“SVB woke people up to duration risk,” says Nathan Stovall, head of financial institutions research at S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...“The fundamentals don’t turn around until that comes back.”...
...An ETF that tracks the CFRA-Stovall large cap seasonal rotation index surely can't be far behind....
...Small-cap companies tend to face higher tax rates than large ones since they don’t have the same access to lower-tax havens, meaning they may benefit more if Mr Trump is successful in lowering the corporate...
...Across the street from Ground Zero is the old railroad depot that houses the blues museum with Muddy Waters’ old cabin from Stovall Plantation, which is about 10 miles from town where he worked as a tractor...
...“Prices appear to be well ahead of fundamental forecasts and may therefore be vulnerable to downward readjustment,” Mr Stovall warned....
...Despite the eye-catching figure, P/E ratios “don’t make for a good market-timing tool”, Mr Stovall said....
...“If I am an income investor, am older and don’t have time to take risk, I just want my income stream,” Sam Stovall of S&P Global Market Intelligence, said....
...“If I am an income investor, am older and don’t have time to take risk, I just want my income stream,” said Sam Stovall of S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...“There will be no doubt that actual earnings will beat estimates by about 70 per cent as they always do but that shouldn’t be considered good as it is just normal,” said Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst...
...And if you can’t, you have an obligation as a director to do something about it.”...
...The index was led by a 1.2 per cent rise in the telecoms sector as AT&T moved higher....
...I wouldn’t be surprised if you have companies beating both sales and profit estimates but then having their stocks fall in the days after.”...
...“Investors shouldn’t be too concerned about the currently low trading volume....
...The S&P sits 1 per cent higher in October, and volatility is little changed, said Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, in a note....
...The breadth of buying indicated a broad confidence and the lack of serious concern about the ramifications of growing tensions over Syria, said Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ....
...And it is for this reason that Jim Slater, a well-known UK investor, has favoured smaller companies, quipping that “elephants don’t gallop”....
...“I don’t think anybody wants to make any sort of commitments other than what type of sun block they want to apply,” said Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ....
...“This is going to be a quarter of earnings that won’t be a disaster, but it will be weak.”...
...“I don’t think we are at a top,” says Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, who is recommending investors overweight the industry....
...“But we can’t see a robust reason for the pattern. It is possibly just coincidence.”...
...Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, said: “Many don’t believe this rally has legs, which we think is very bullish from a contrarian viewpoint....
...AT&T shares gained 0.9 per cent to $37.58, while Sprint Nextel climbed 0.2 per cent to $5.27....
...If that doesn’t suggest a Barack Obama victory over Mitt Romney in November, I don’t know what does. There are a gazillion supposedly foolproof theories predicting election outcomes....
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