Peridot Capitalist

The recent swoon in the U.S. stock market has gotten to a point where there are plenty of values to be found for those investors willing to ignore the near-term headlines and negative sentiment. In fact, if things stay where they are for the next quarter or two, the S&P 500 index will be the [...]

From the Wall Street Journal: “The Federal Reserve reported Thursday that non-financial companies had socked away $1.84 trillion in cash and other liquid assets as of the end of March, up 26% from a year earlier and the largest increase on records going back to 1952. Cash made up about 7% of all company assets [...]

I have been holding double-digit cash positions in most equity client accounts for much of 2010 and this week I began allocating some of that cash back into the market. We finally got a 10% correction, after more than a year without one. The market seems to be obsessed with Europe and the Euro exchange [...]

This afternoon the U.S. stock market went bananas and I decided to sit down in front of the television, watch, and enjoy myself. When the entire market is run mostly by computers, not only can traders control the minute by minute action but they can even set the computer up so that once certain price [...]

For several months I have been holding elevated cash levels (above 10%) in most client accounts, due to the fact that the stock market appears overbought and has gone a very long time without a standard 10% correction. In fact, we have now gone more than a year without a 10% drop which is a [...]