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Conrad deAenlle

• Cheap Crude and a Cautious Mood May Mean Big Bargains in Big Oil

  Just two things are keeping a lid on oil stocks: oil and stocks. The black, viscous substance is having trouble staying above $50 a barrel less than a year after it had trouble staying below $100. As for stocks, investors remain leery of the recent rally and are willing to pay only low...

  Blog posts | Apr 22, 2009

• Merrill’s Bartels, Deadly Accurate All Year, Warns of a Correction

  Mary Ann Bartels, a technical analyst who has made some phenomenal stock market calls this year, predicting the rally and keeping investors in it all the way up, has turned skeptical lately and is warning that a correction is on the way. by Conrad de Aenlle

  Blog posts | Nov 17, 2009

• Tech Fund Manager Landis Bets on Solar to Get Hot Again

  Kevin Landis, manager of the Firsthand Alternative Energy Fund, likes the growth prospects of solar energy companies, especially as technology comes along to make their operations more efficient and cost-effective, and many of the stocks are trading at small fractions of their peaks reached a...

  Blog posts | Nov 12, 2009

• Finding Growth and Value in Alternative Energy and Alternative Tech

  A top Silicon Valley investor believes that some of the best investment prospects belong to companies developing or using technologies that could make forms of renewable energy like solar commercially viable. by Conrad de Aenlle

  Blog posts | Nov 10, 2009

• The Dow Hits 10,000 Again, but the Small Have Gotten Smaller

  A late rally on Thursday took the Dow Jones industrial average back above 10,000, but there is less to the breaching of the five-digit barrier than there may seem at first. by Conrad de Aenlle

  Blog posts | Nov 5, 2009

• Stocks’ Can-You-Spare-It Recovery This Week Is Hardly Convincing

  The anemic recovery so far this week in stocks provides more evidence that a significant correction has begun. by Conrad de Aenlle

  Blog posts | Nov 3, 2009

• Awful Week for Stocks May Be Just the Beginning

  The plunge in stocks Friday brought the decline in the S&P 500 index to just over 4 percent for the week. There have been other big down days throughout the rally this year, but this one appears particularly portentous for several reasons and suggests that a serious correction has begun. by...

  Blog posts | Oct 30, 2009

• Grantham, After Forecasting Rally, Warns That a Reversal Is Approaching

  Jeremy Grantham, chief strategist at the portfolio manager G.M.O., was one of the few professionals who accurately predicted the rally in stocks this year. Now that the market has reached the top of his forecast range, he is calling for a big reversal. by Conrad de Aenlle

  Blog posts | Oct 27, 2009

• Correction Has Been Postponed, Not Canceled

  Some observers - me, for instance - have been warning that stocks have risen too far, too fast and that the risk of a correction is high, yet the rally keeps on keeping on. I'm willing to say I was early, but I'm not willing to say I was wrong. The reasons I offered (here, here and here) for...

  Blog posts | Oct 21, 2009

• Don't Get Used to a Five-Digit Dow

  The rally of the Dow Jones industrial average past 10,000 has lasted two days and appears in jeopardy already. As I noted in a post last month, a rise in the benchmark stock index above milestones like this often turns out to be an inauspicious event. With two hours of trading to go on Friday,...

  Blog posts | Oct 16, 2009