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New data series confirms unprecedented correlations in equity markets.

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Uncertainties are running high, and the stock market continues its struggle with a complex array of cross currents.

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2008 is over. We expect 2009 to be better since worst-case scenarios now seem less likely to play out.

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In the spirit of historical market research, we thought it would be a good time to revisit which industry groups perform best from bear market lows.

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Relief finally came to Wall Street, not in the form of rebate checks or rate cuts, but from the strongest monthly returns since December 2003.

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The moderate index level price moves from February month-end to March month-end didn’t give any indication of the wild swings that occurred during the days in between.

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The stock market continued to trend lower in February, with most broad indexes posting losses in the 2%-3% range by month end.

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To the extent that the January Barometer can still be trusted—and in judging its recent track record, it certainly can’t—the losses in January provide a foreboding message for the bulls in early 2008.

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December’s bi-polar price swings had screens flashing brilliant with traditional holiday colors of red and green.

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The venerable Wall Of Worry finally got to the stock market during November, with the major indexes losing their grip virtually right out of the gates.

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October marked new all-time highs for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrials, while mid and small cap indexes like the Russell 2000, S&P 600 and S&P Mid Cap indexes, tested, but failed to take out their July-2007 highs.

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This month’s “Of Special Interest” focuses on the inflation pressures into today’s marketplace.

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Not even the stock market gymnastics of late-February and March of this year could rival the kind of volatility  we saw in August.

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Following the market rout of recent weeks, we imagine there are many clients sharing our nervous view of the stock market. For those clients, especially those managing long-only equity strategies, we thought it may be helpful to highlight some defensive groups that are scoring well in our group work.

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The Major Trend Index’s bearish reading put us on the right side of the market during the second half of July.

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At a time when the public remains largely sidelined, corporations, private equity, and professional investors continue to take the U.S. stock market averages higher.

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It is getting increasingly clear that current stock market gains are being built upon the backs of corporate and private equity investors.

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Clients who use our equity group work are well aware of the successful history of picking groups through the quantitative Group Selection Scores (GS Scores).

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The bulls remain in command as evidenced by the fact that the broad market averages continue their ascent toward new cyclical highs (or in some cases like the DJIA and Russell 2000—new all-time highs).

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The stock market spent much of March trying to climb out of the hole dug back on February 27th. But to date, the primary indexes are still below late-February’s cyclical highs.

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