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Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 06:52 PM Apr 2013

Markets ride technology surge; S&P hits new high

Source: Omaha World Herald-AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Technology companies led the Standard & Poor's 500 index to an all-time closing high Monday.

The stock market has recovered all the ground it lost over the previous two weeks, when worries over slower economic growth, falling commodity prices and disappointing quarterly earnings battered financial markets.

The S&P 500 index rose 11.37 points to close at 1,593.61. The 0.7 percent increase nudged the index above its previous closing high of 1,593.36, reached on April 11.

“The market has had a terrific run,” said Philip Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors, noting that the S&P 500 is up 12 percent since the start of 2013. “At the beginning of the year, I thought we were going to 1,660 (for the whole year). We're only about 5 percent from that.”

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Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130429/MONEY/704309951/1707#markets-ride-technology-surge-s-amp-p-hits-new-high

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Markets ride technology surge; S&P hits new high (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2013 OP
Danger Will Robinson! aristocles Apr 2013 #1
I am selling, but not because of anything I read at zerohedge...eom Kolesar Apr 2013 #2
I've been selling for the last 2 months aristocles Apr 2013 #3
Equities are not the "sure thing" to keep inflation from carving into my savings Kolesar Apr 2013 #4
I'm about 60% in equities, but I plan to be down to about 35% by June. nt aristocles Apr 2013 #5
 

aristocles

(594 posts)
3. I've been selling for the last 2 months
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 08:26 PM
Apr 2013

I check every week. I'm decreasing positions wherever I have profits.

In a few months, after a major correction, I'll buy back into those positions at a lower price.

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
4. Equities are not the "sure thing" to keep inflation from carving into my savings
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 06:44 AM
Apr 2013

After reading some retirement planning books, I realized that I was way overextended in equities. Now I am at about 40% and still selling equities.

"Stocks for the Long Run" is an unsupportable thesis after those last two market crashes. I still don't think that Wall Street is "back into regulation".

My favorite product is I-bonds: inflation protected US Savings Bonds. I would buy TIPS, but they are badly priced right now. Savers around the world are still coming to the US Treasury to buy the US debt.

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