heres a good one. laszlo birinyi the load mouth calling for 1750 on the s@p in the coming 2 years. HERE'S HIS BOTTOM CALL IN DEC 2008 THAT THE S@P WOULD NEVER SEE 750 AGAIN( IT CRASHED TO 650 IN MARCH 2009 AND HIS CALL FOR STOCKS TO CORRECT 5-10% IN APRIL AND MAY. THE DUDES BEEN DEAD WRONG YET MAKES MILLIONS. LISTEN TO NO ONE THEY'RE ALL SALESMAN
Birinyi: Stock Market Has Bottomed
Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:06 AM
By: Dan Weil Article Font Size
Stock market guru Laszlo Birinyi, president of Birinyi Associates, sees light at the end of the tunnel for stocks.
First, he says, the market has risen in five of the last seven sessions, despite continued negative news on the economic and corporate earnings fronts, he said in an interview with Bloomberg.
âWeâre seeing several characteristics of a bottoming in the market,â Birinyi says.
âFor example, the heaviest declines in bear markets come at the very end. In the last quartile of this bear market,â stocks registered 60 percent of their total declines, he points out.
The Standard & Poorâs 500 stock index has dropped 54 percent to 841.38 from its record high of Oct. 9, 2007.
âVolatility is high at the end of a bear market. We think the market has made a bottom,â Birinyi explains.
âThatâs not to suggest that the market will run away from us, but at this point, we should be looking forward, not back. While the market may stumble and fumble, I donât think weâre going back to 750 on the S&P 500.â
And what stocks should investors look to buy?
âHistorically, large caps do well out of bear markets, because they can put a lot of money to work,â Birinyi says.
Birinyi isnât the only one seeing bottom for stocks.
âYou have companies reaching a point where their shares really canât go any lower,â Neil Hennessy, president of Hennessy Funds, told The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Stocks May Drop After Rally, Laszlo Birinyi Says (Update1)
By Eric Martin and Betty Liu
April 13 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose too far, too fast and will retreat before advancing again, according to Laszlo Birinyi, president of Birinyi Associates Inc.
âBuying stocks is like crossing Fifth Avenue when the light is red,â Birinyi said in an interview with Bloomberg Television from Westport, Connecticut. âYou might make it, but the odds are not with you.â
Birinyi said the stock market is âoverboughtâ and may fall 5 to 10 percent before rebouunding. Investors should wait for banksâ first-quarter earnings and the results of stress tests before buying them, he added. The Standard & Poorâs 500 Index added 1.7 percent last week, capping its steepest 23-day advance since 1933, after Wells Fargo & Co. reported higher- than-estimated profit.