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[raceagainstthestorm]

DOW 15000 coming also?

https://www.kiplinger.com/columns/value/archive/reasons-to-buy-emerging-markets-stocks-now.html

[chsharpei]

Dr. Jeremy Siegel (Wharton School of Business (Can you say Trump family graduates?) talking Dow 17,000 within two years possible...'Siegel, whose bullish prediction made headlines earlier this year, said today on Fast Money Dow 17,000 was even more likely now.'  If you think about all the money the Central Banks are pumping into the economies and if jobs pick up here and elsewhere it

[brotherM1]

Is he perhaps talking about the DOW because it is laden with dividend paying stocks?  The fed is saying it will keep rates low  - possiblfy for at  least two more years.  With banks paying extremely little interest on investment accounts, bond interest already low, where else can one put money and expect a safe return other than in quality dividend paying stocks?  Is

[chsharpei]

Hi Mac: That's a lot of it. You hear so many analysts talking about low volume participation in the market. Here's the video: https://www.cnbc.com/id/48975990. Funny he isn't concerned with all the challenges that everyone else seems to be: Iran/Israel; fiscal cliff; global slowdown (By the way someone on CNBC today was making the point that the BRICs are coming back&excl

[brotherM1]

I am not yet convinced the housing sector is significantly improving.  Still millions of foreclosures to go through.  The spring and summer are the best times for the housing sector.  What the rest of the year will bring remains to be seen.  Where I live the employment rate is better than the national average; yet home sales and construction are bleak and Home Depots and Lowes

[chsharpei]

' I am not yet convinced the housing sector is significantly improving'.. Please don't misquote me,,,I didn't say 'significantly'.  Analysts are talking about improvement in the industry, more so new home sales than resales and the builders' stock prices are improving.  Inventory is down enough for professionals to notice - in most markets.  Naturally

[brotherM1]

Hmmmm. Sharpei -Its been over 10 years since I was a real estate agent but at the time spring and summer were the best months to sell homes mainly because of children in schools the rest of the year. The kids made it exceptionally difficult when it came to moving into a new school district during school season. I wonder why fall would be a better time to sell a home? >

[chsharpei]

While traffic was higher during the Summer months (with the exception being August when people were on vacation) the serious buyers came in after Labor Day and made purchases. Sharpei