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Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... Surprise, surprise. They follow where Wall Street treads, do they not? But not only that, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac, "Since 1950, the S&P 500 has risen an average of 1.1 per cent in the six months from May to October versus a gain of 7 ...

Second best month of the year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... another season to be jolly? Yes 'tis the season to be jolly - fa la la la la la la - if you believe the Stock Trader's Almanac, that is. "According to app.com, "Seasonality, at least according to history, is about to swing to stocks' favor. November ...

Bear killer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... 1989, 1997, 2008. Now think about all the windfalls that followed these. According to the Jeff Hirsch of the Stock Traders Almanac, "We've seen a lot of bear markets hit bottom and turn in October," noting that 11 post WWII bear markets on the Dow Jones ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some pretty persuasive numbers to support the argument. If you put $10,000 into the market on November 1, 1972 ...

Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... This is the first time I've even heard of these Spanish banks. Unless you live in Spain or in charge of the world banking almanac, chances are they're Spanish too you too. The bottomline is that the European Central Bank has again put its credibility ...
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