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Bear Markets Take No Prisoners
I’m looking forward to when 10-year Treasuries yield 5 percent, now at 4.4%. There should be a retreat into quality at that point. High...
Martin Sosnoff
4 days ago3 min read
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How To Ride Out Wrecking Ball Trump
Even after the fall, I figure sticking 20 percent invested isn’t too extreme. Decades ago, when Xerox couldn’t keep pace with Canon and...
Martin Sosnoff
Apr 212 min read
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Trump’s Wrecking Ball Pounding Down Value
There’s an old story by Lafcadio Hearn about a flood enveloping a bunch of dancers, oblivious on the dance floor but up to their ankles...
Martin Sosnoff
Apr 142 min read
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Stock Holders Short-Changed Then, Now, Maybe Forever
My experience with chart books is most of us miss their message. You can easily riffle the pages and come up with nothing. But, for...
Martin Sosnoff
Apr 73 min read
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Forget The FRB Mumbles We Need Snappy Fundamentals
I remember Gerald Loeb, partner at E.F. Hutton, 65 years ago. He’d huddle in his cramped office, gazing at the ticker tape stream across...
Martin Sosnoff
Mar 313 min read
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How to Play Ragamuffins
My short list of playable junk paper covers several old industrials. You gotta be diversified. Don’t go down in a single ship. I cover...
Martin Sosnoff
Mar 242 min read
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Trump, The Wrecking Ball Pushed Me Into Cash
I try to keep my ego out of the stock market but decades ago, I went for control of Caesar's World. New Jersey regulators turned me down....
Martin Sosnoff
Mar 173 min read
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My Take On Buffett’s 13F Filing
Berkshire Hathaway’s yearend quarterly report was truly simplistic. This is a $267 billion asset base with low turnover. You rarely see...
Martin Sosnoff
Mar 104 min read
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Buffett’s Portfolio Leaves Me Cold
Why is Buffett so keen on gobbling up so much Occidental Petroleum? I dunno. I don’t see an inflation coming in oil worldwide. OXY is off...
Martin Sosnoff
Mar 33 min read
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With Gun Slinging Dead, Money Managers Fiddle Softly
In our herky-jerky market setting, money managers are mostly sitting put. That’s my reading of their yearend portfolios. The Magnificent...
Martin Sosnoff
Feb 243 min read
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What About A New Gilded Age?
I’ve never lived in a Gilded Age. So I wouldn’t know how to revel in its plenty. The Great Depression enveloped my time with the East...
Martin Sosnoff
Feb 173 min read
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No Such Thing As A Blue Chip
I’m talking about your portfolio inventory which shows unrealized gains and losses. Penalty for a bad entry point can cost you 5%...
Martin Sosnoff
Feb 103 min read
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My Bread Got Buttered Over Light, Not Heavy
When I made my first million in Big Board assets, I phoned my dad and told him so. Pop’s response sort of floored me: “Bah! Sosnoffs...
Martin Sosnoff
Feb 33 min read
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Conceptual Investing Fills My Car’s Back Seat
Never underestimate how wrong group think can be. Linear extrapolation, what economists do can be horrendously off base. Then, there’s...
Martin Sosnoff
Jan 273 min read
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There’s A Bear Crouched In The Bushes
Find me a ready talker on bear market destruction. They must be around in the bushes. We need Eva Peron back, wailing “Don’t Cry For Me...
dforsosnoff
Jan 202 min read
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The Bumpy Road to Riches Part II
Let’s go back to the whirlpool of wealth progression over the century. I don’t have the latest numbers, but my point of the leveraging...
Martin Sosnoff
Jan 132 min read
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The Road to Riches Tricky And Volatile
At yearend, it’s allowable to tot up your gains and losses on investments. If for no other reason than to confirm whether you should be a...
Martin Sosnoff
Jan 63 min read
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Fed’s Quarter Pointers Get Us To No Where
In “The Red Badge Of Courage,” Stephen Crane’s tersely written Civil War novel gets my money. The combatants fall like bundles. Don’t mix...
Martin Sosnoff
Dec 30, 20243 min read
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Let Somebody Else Stir The Pot
When I reviewed my charts on householder’s share of equity markets, I was surprised to see how low it gets when recessions hit the...
dforsosnoff
Dec 23, 20243 min read
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MLP Dividend Stream Quenches My Yield Thirst
Over 60 years of trading. I’ve rarely run a credit balance. More likely, I’d be scrambling for capital, run a debit balance in stocks...
Martin Sosnoff
Dec 16, 20243 min read
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