Short term market [Archive]

01-04-2006, 06:19 PM

Some of the informatin I have been hearing and reading about calls for a market drop below 10,000 bt March/April. Some of the reasons, increasing interest rates, cooling of the realestate market and change in FED Chair. What are some of Your thoughts?

tsptalk

01-04-2006, 11:46 PM

Welcome JR!

My 2006 "prediction" is here www.tsptalk.com/longer_term.html (http://www.tsptalk.com/longer_term.html) if interested.

Tom

01-05-2006, 06:23 PM

Thanks, I ran across your answer after I had posted the forem Item. I would like to know if there is a good place to track dollar strength, to better monitor my I account.

tsptalk

01-05-2006, 07:35 PM

Try here (http://charts3.barchart.com/chart.asp?sym=$DXY&data=A&jav=adv&vol=Y&divd=Y&evnt=adv&grid=Y&code=BSTK&org=stk&fix=) for a chart of the dollar. Also here is a good place to see how the dollar is affecting the EAFE (I fund)... http://www.msci.com/equity/index2.html

Tom

Birchtree

01-19-2006, 04:05 AM

The S&P 500 gained 37 points in the first week of 2006 compared to 36 points in the whole of 2005. Certainly seem progressive for more advances.