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Moneytalk Show Review Bob Brinker's Stock Market Update for 2012 February 5, 2012 |
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Comment ("EC") by David Korn: Bob Brinker Fan Club Home Page - Bob Brinker's Asset Allocation History |
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MARKET NUMBERS AS OF FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
Dow: 12,862.23 , NASDAQ: 2,905.66 , S&P 500: 1,344.90 , 10-Yr. Bond: 1.949% Click links for current quotes and graphs plus Markets at a Glance STOCK MARKET OFF TO GREAT START Brinker Comment: The stock market is off to a happy start in 2012. Year-to-date, the S&P 500 is already up close to 7%. All of this is happening at the same time that 10-year Treasury yield is 1.93%, not too far off the lows. The S&P 500 has scored five consecutive weekly gains — the longest in a year. The Dow is now at its highest level since May, 2008 and the Nasdaq is at its highest level since December, 2000! Kirk Here: See "World Markets at a Glance" for Daily and a 1 yr view. EC (David Korn): Bob remains very bullish and he is in good company. Mark Hulbert wrote an article this week in which he looked at the Financial Digest database of advisors whose market timing advice beat a buy-and-hold in the stock market in each of the last four market cycles. Ten advisors, including daBrink, made the cut and most importantly, all of them are bullish. Check out the article, “Will the bull see his shadow” which details the recommended equity weighting by each of the advisors covered (Bob Brinker’s model equity portfolios are 100% invested): http://tinyurl.com/87a3flc Kirk Here: I don't understand how Brinker's advice beat buy and hold for each of the last four bear markets including the 20% bear market Mark Hulbert counts as occurring last year. Bob Brinker was fully invested, thus "buy and hold" since March 2003. Brinker was "buy and hold" for the greatest bear market since the Great Depression that being the 2008 bear market. Brinker was so bullish at the top he issued a "Gift Horse Buying Opportunity" in the mid 1400s when the market was at its record high in the mid 1500s! Even worse, Brinker had is "conservative model portfolio #3" two thirds in equities at the very top and told a worried caller to not rebalance to 50:50 because he was bullish for the future! No wonder so few trust the big names on Wall Street anymore, including Brinker and Hulbert! Whatever, my explore portfolio is off to a great start too at up 10.2% YTD as of 2/3/12! Long
Term Results that Speak for Themselves
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Bob said he was broadcasting from Nevada where Mitt Romney had just prevailed in the Republican caucuses. Bob pointed out that if you are the incumbent President you want to see jobs growth because jobs growth and economic growth is what gets you re-elected. Regardless of who you are voting for, the jobs report we just got was a great number for America because we want people to get new jobs which helps our economy and strengthens our country. Bob noted that the jobs number was even more impressive because there was a revision to the December and November reports which were revised upward by 60,000 jobs. The unemployment rate is at 8.3% which will take time to get down. The U-6 number which includes the under-employed is above 15% and we want to see that get down as well. EC: Read the employment report at this url: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm FEDERAL RESERVE POLICY Brinker Comment: The Federal Reserve finished a 2-day meeting this week and said they will hold interest rates down until 2014. Bob said to take that kind of statement with a grain of salt. The truth is that if unemployment remains high, and inflation remains low, they will keep rates down. But if things change, Bob said the Fed won’t hesitate to act. EC: Ben Bernanke presented testimony on the economic outlook and the Federal budget situation last week before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives. Read his remarks at: http://tinyurl.com/77uty5t Kirk Here: The Fed is trying to create inflation to inflate us out of trouble. CPI inflation is running at 3.0% per year and Core PCE inflation, the Fed's preferred method of measuring inflation, is running just above the Fed's target of 1.8 to 2.0%. This year and last year I bought the maximum $10,000 in Series I Bonds to add to my i-Bond portfolio. Some of my older iBonds have a 3.0% base rate so with the current inflation rate they are paying me a whopping 7.67%! But, even the new ones that "only" pay the rate of inflation are paying 3.06% for the next six month. With CPI running at 3.0%, I expect they will pay more for the next six months. That sure beats US Treasuries even if you sell them and pay the small penalty if you need the cash before the five year penalty period passes. Caller: Do you think the market rising because of the Federal Reserve policy? Bob said low interest rates help, but the stock market is reacting to the overall economic conditions. Bob then commented on how the Federal Reserve is trying to be more transparent in their policies which is a good thing. Bob said that Greenspan was too secretive in his conduct of monetary policy which contributed to the conspiracy theories and to the detriment of the system. Now we have a Fed Chairmen who seems pro-transparency and Bob likes it. The caller asked Bob if he thought the Fed would maintain transparency if we had another economic emergency. Bob said that might be stretching the envelope and we won’t know until it happens. Kirk Here: To get more than $10,000 per year, I bought individual TIPS for my personal IRAs and my newsletter "explore portfolio."
EUROPE Brinker Comment: The story that does not seem to go away is Europe. Right now, they are still focusing on Greece which has been a nightmare of sovereign debt trouble. What they are trying to work out is a gigantic haircut for bondholders of Greek sovereign debt. The proposed deal would result in current bondholders accepting new bonds that were worth 50% less than their current bonds, plus a much lower coupon rate. This would result in a 70% plus reduction in the present value for bond holders. Greece is facing a $19 billion bond payment on March 20th and that is a major catalyst to the negotiations. Notably, that comes right before the general elections in Greece in April where the austerity measures are facing a lot of resistance from many Greek citizens. If they don’t reach a deal, Greece could leave the European union and they have to start printing their own currency, the drachma, and what would that be worth when the country is viewed as essentially bankrupt? Remember in May 2010 there was an initial aid package of $120 billion to Greece. There was a push to have the bondholders share some of the burden and then Greece implemented austerity. The austerity measures, however, slowed the economy and now they have 18% unemployment and continue to run big deficits. German officials, such as its Finance Minister, said this week that they cannot pay into a bottomless pit and Greece needs a new program but they must create conditions for it. On the other side, you have the head of Orthodox church in Greece who believes the austerity program could cause a deadly social explosion. Bob said as far as he is concerned, if you can get private debt holders to take a 70% reduction in the net present value, then that is huge. Bob said there is another problem, however, if the Greece situation gets solved. Portugal may raise their hand and say, “we are next” and want some kind of deal like Greece got. These are small nations compared to the European union. Greece is only 2% of the EU GDP and Portugal is not much different in size. However, when there is contagion in that kind of thing, you have to watch close. EC: The euro is getting hit today as negotiations over the new Greek bailout gets close: http://tinyurl.com/7h99scq Caller: This caller noted that the problems in Greece didn’t seem to impact Bob’s stock market forecast and wondered why. Bob said the main impact Europe has had on his stock market view is that it helped create a tremendous buying opportunity in August-October 2011 when the S&P 500 stock market made a major bottom in low 1100s. On the 22nd of September, Bob said he upgraded the market to a buying opportunity with the market being attractive outright for purchase (as opposed to a dollar cost average). Within 10 days, the market had turned around and is now in the 1300s as we speak, Bob said one of the factors that contributed to the situation in the fall of last year was concern about sovereign debt – even US debt because that is when S&P 500 had downgraded US debt. All of these things were coming to the forefront. Bob said he was looking at the technical aspect of the market as well. Another factor that helped produce the selling in the market was a forecast by a private economic group right around that time predicting that the economy was going into recession. Bob reminded listeners that at the time he said the forecast was incorrect but it created a lot of angst in the stock market because people were selling based on that forecast and it helped create a wonderful buying opportunity. Sometimes you get the perfect storm and that was a 2011 bottom and we have had a terrific run since that time. The stock market has moved almost straight up and is now 22% higher since that time frame. EC: Bob was referring to the Economic Cycle Research Institute’s recession forecast that was indeed big news at the time. You may recall the stock market got down within a hair of 20% on a closing basis (Bob’s own bear market definition did not technically get reached in the S&P 500) before rebounding. Check out this article entitled, “ECRI’s Recession Call gets Even Weaker” at this url: http://tinyurl.com/7jc39fb Kirk Here: Bob was right to stay invested last year but in 2008 ECRI made their last recession call and Brinker called ECRI and others who were bearish "Cassandras" while he issued buying opportunity after buying opportunity from the mid 1400s to the 800s as the market collapsed. See the article ECRI asked me to publish for them on my blog back in March 2008 called ECRI Calls it "A Recession of Choice."
MATURING
CDs Kirk Here: I didn't
like Brinker's evasive answer to the 86-year old
caller. I believe Brinker put the fund in his
"income portfolio" to get higher returns with higher
risk so he gets a better ranking. It is
clear to me from the call that the changes he made
to his newsletter have confused his
subscribers. The answer should have been
CLEARLY EXPLAINED in his newsletter but it was not. In
fact, the "income portfolio" only gets mention these
days because it made money last year while Brinker's
model porfolios one and two lost money in 2011 and
model portfolio #3 only made 1%! I think the
"income portfolio" is only there so Brinker has
something to brag about after his recommended
portfolios do poorly. I've never liked this
"lack of transparency" about Brinker where he acts
more like a late night info-mercial rather than "the
World's most trusted financial advisor" out to help
people. .
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