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It is possible that some of the highest forecasts are close to 90 days old, meaning that ****ysts have yet to adjust them for the credit crunch.
2009 Earnings Projections
In a monthly column that I write for SFO Magazine's web site, I described the Dow's range as between 8200-9450. We might see some intraday swings slightly outside these numbers, but I think it's a close approximation.
Higher TED spreads imply greater credit risk. Prior to the current credit crunch, the TED spread was 0.11%.
Lowest estimate: $75.20 (+1.6%)
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The bottom-up estimate is calculated by using the individual earnings estimates for each company and then applying an index-weight to it. The lowest estimate uses the lowest profit forecast for each company. The highest estimate uses the highest forecast for each company.
There was a big rally headed into the election, so a sell on the news reaction was not surprising.
During the campaign, President-Elect Obama said that healthcare will be one his top priorities. Since the Focus List presently has a heavy weighting towards the medical sector, I want to address why I'm not concerned.
The 3-month London-Interbank Offered Rate (aka "LIBOR") is down to 2.29% as of Friday morning. At the height of the credit crunch, the rate had reached 4.82%. This rate is used as the basis for many loan terms, including the interest rate on your and my credit cards.
The top-down forecasts, which are consensus estimates made for the S 500 as a whole, show a tighter range.
Though this is a big range, if the Dow can start to see more days with double-digit moves, as opposed to triple-digit moves, then investor confidence would be more fully restored.
Despite all of the volatility, we are still in one big trading range. The post-election pullback occured as the Dow was just above resistance and overbought on a short-term basis.
Consensus estimate: $93.73 (+6.9%)
The Election and the Our Portfolios
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Healthcare will be a major battle. moves towards national health care, much of the existing system could be kept in place. Switzerland has universal coverage AND powerful insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
As I have said previously, these profit forecasts need to be taken with grain of salt. Brokerage ****ysts are doing their best to make educated guesses, but the assumptions used in their models could end up being very wrong. It's not the ****ysts' fault, but rather just current <a href="***********.jswingstopshop.com/">adidas shoes with wings</a> reality.
Highest estimate: $108.00 (+7.5%)
The TED Spread, which is the difference between the LIBOR rate and 3-month treasury bill rates, has also narrowed. Friday's spread of 2% is well below the recent peak of 3.66%.
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