Yep, you heard it right. Economic bad news is coming in from all fronts right now, with job cuts being announced daily, as well as poor data. Since the market drop in October, the economy has pretty much frozen in a lot of areas. It will take some time to thaw, but stocks likely will be the first thing to move higher. Why? To quote Ken Fisher, "The stock market is a discounter of widely known information." br /br /I always look at it this way: The stock market is pricing in the state of the economy around six months from now. Right now there is no sign of stabilization in the economy, so the market is still quite volatile. But while the economy might take a little while to recover, the stock market will make is quickest move as soon ...

Today’s post comes from a guest blog, New Rules of Investing:

Institutional investors have powerful tools at their disposal to screen through reams of data.  Part of the institutional investment process entails screening through thousands of securities looking for a needle in a haystack — stocks that fit certain investment criteria.  From thousands of stocks, analysts can filter through a couple of hundred that fit these so called screens.  With a couple of hundred stocks in hand, analysts set out to do the hard work analyzing these companies, comparing them to one another, speaking to management and whatever else hedge fund and mutual fund analysts do when looking at prospective investments.

If I’m a value investor, I’m probably going to use some metrics that focus on Return on Capital (RoC) or Return on Equity (RoE) and Earnings Yield (E/P).  Growth investors might

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Ken Fisher, an investment guru, has BOMBED big time with his latest picks in Forbes Magazine.

Check out his picks at:

http://trackthepros.com/stocks/category/26

      

Ken Fisher, an investment guru, has BOMBED big time with his latest picks in Forbes Magazine.

Check out his picks at:

http://trackthepros.com/stocks/category/26

      

Ken Fisher talked about the UNBUBBLE in his latest Forbes article and came out with 5 new picks.  He says emerging markets are beating expectations and the U.S earning yield of nonfinancial firms is today higher relative to long-term interest rates than it’s been in your adult lifetime.

Fisher named five stocks to own now.

Track his picks at:

http://trackthepros.com/stocks/category/26

and click on Start Tracking Category to get notified when he picks new stocks.

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