At its launch on July 26, Malaysia Street founding partner Yeoh Keat Seng said he believes individual investors will become a formidable force on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange with the power to move stocks, once they have access to top-grade advice at low cost thanks to the Internet.
But I bring it up to demonstrate that the potential still exists for stocks to move significantly higher, because many are underinvested in stocks.
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The same volatility and correlation that has caused assets like gold to move in lockstep with stocks, contrary to its nature, will continue into the first half of 2012, said Knapp.
Wells Fargo ( WFC - news - people )'s Private Bank, which is urging clients to move money into stocks.
This Wall Street Journal chart shows that they have continued to move money out of stocks as the market has moved higher.
At the same time, Mr. Yoshikami said he has been cutting back on owning gold since it tends to decline as stocks move higher.
Large-cap stocks that have been around a long time tend to move less than small-cap stocks, and therefore tend to have lower implied volatilities.
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One contrast, however, is that interest rates look likely to drop, a potentially big positive for furniture stocks, which tend to move up when rates go down.
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In the current environment, there are very few analysts that are expecting stocks to still move significantly higher from current levels.
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Since both are American auto manufacturers, their stocks tend to move together.
Certainly, many investors are choosing to move their assets away from stocks and into cash products such as money market accounts and certificates of deposit.
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Without a BUY rated stock in the BKX and with 19 of the 24 banks projecting slightly lower stock prices a year from now, regional banks should continue to lead stocks lower and will likely lag when stocks move higher.
"Hedge funds are really major players and their performance is measured monthly, and they have the ability to move in and out of stocks in one day, long or short, and they could be moving in or out of positions, " Rueckert said.
If you happened to buy last year's stocks, a good move now would be to make a tax-loss sale of the laggards and use the proceeds to help pay for this year's crop.
Kaltbaum's approach on the long side is to "nibble" at strong stocks and to close out positions that move away from him more than 8% to 10%.
Instead, we have a tendency to invest aggressively in stocks after stocks have been going up and move to cash after stock prices come back down.
The move lifted Japanese stocks to their highest level in more than five years.
This vicious allocation shift could move investors from bonds to stocks and commodities, particularly.
As stocks have continued to move higher, there has been quite a bit of sector rotation.
This is not to say that select stocks cannot move higher, but they will not see the percentage appreciation that was common in the 90s.
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The fund wants to move some of that money to overseas real estate and foreign real-estate stocks, he said.
The intention of the move is to make the weightings of stocks in the index more reflective of their actual market caps.
Over time, though, stocks and bonds tend to move in opposite directions.
The Fed may not be trailing footprints across our snow-weary nation, but its fingerprints appear to be all over the bull move in stocks that we have seen in stocks in recent weeks.
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The support for Cyprus cleared the way for stocks around the world to move higher, and the major U.S. indexes were in positive territory to begin the day, but backed off those gains after about 60 minutes of trading.
The science will move from static estimates of stocks to a sense of the system's dynamic flows.
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