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Today: Stock market indexes fall more than 1 percent in very light volume, hurting S&P 500’s chance to turn a profit for the year. also: Google (GOOG) hits a new 52-week high after search, Android and Google+ receive good news; and holiday shopping’s early returns are positive.

Wall Street falls amid light trading, clouding end-of-year prospects

Wall Street broke its run of five consecutive positive trading sessions with losses across the board Wednesday, sending the S&P 500 index back into the red for 2011 and severely damaging the possibility that all three indexes could show positive movement for the year.

The Associated Press and Bloomberg News attributed the negative movement — losses of more than 1 percent for all three major indexes — to evidence that European banks are stashing their cash instead of loaning it out, which could hasten the continent’s long fall toward recession.

“The economy is not benefiting from the ECB lending to banks,” Timothy Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Group, told Bloomberg News. “With Europe likely to lapse into a recession, banks are reluctant to actually lend.”

However, Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at asset-management company Banyan Partners, told the Wall Street Journal that Wednesday’s fall more likely stemmed from the fact that few trades were made. the Journal reported that only 2.3 billion shares traded hands Wednesday, slightly more active than the quietest day of 2011, which was Tuesday.

“It’s a low-volume day with just the skeleton crews around, so small moves are accentuated,” Pavlik said.

With Wednesday’s losses, the Dow Jones composite seems to be the only one of the three major stock market indexes guaranteed positive movement on the year, barring a dramatic drop in the last two days of trading. the Dow closed Wednesday at 12,151, up 574 points — nearly 5 percent — on the year. the S&P closed at 1,250, down 8 points for 2011, or 0.6 percent; and the Nasdaq closed at 2,560, a yearly loss of 93 points, or 3.5 percent.

Google stock hits new high after several positive reports

Google bucked the stock market’s negative trend early in trading and managed to hit a new 52-week high at $645.

The Mountain View-based Internet giant has been deluged with good news this week, even as most employees are home enjoying the holidays. Goldman Sachs was the latest investment firm to increase its price target for the stock in advance of its quarterly earnings report, with Goldman upping its target for the stock from $660 to $685. Analysts at Benchmark and Citigroup increased their Google stock targets last month, setting them at $700 and $680, respectively.

The upgrades follow news that Google is seeing growth in three separate areas of its wide-net approach to technology. the company’s core search business is still dominating the Web, according to a report from the analytics firm Hitwise — Web surfers used Google to perform searches at a nearly 62 percent clip in the four weeks leading up to Christmas Eve, the company reported. the closest competitor was Sunnyvale-based Yahoo (YHOO), which recorded slightly more than 16 percent of the searches in that time period.

Android, Google’s open-source mobile operating system, had a wonderful holiday season as well, according to multiple sources. Andy Rubin, senior vice president for mobile at Google, tweeted that 3.7 million Android devices were activated in just two days last week — Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. That’s far higher than the usual daily tally of activations, which Rubin tweeted last week was averaging about 700,000. Mobile analytics firm Flurry seemed to back up that claim, but also give Apple (AAPL) a reason to claim victory in the holiday season, when it reported that 6.8 million Android and iOS devices were activated on Christmas Day alone.

One of Google’s youngest ventures is also reportedly growing at an incredible clip: Paul Allen, Ancestry.com founder and “unofficial statistician” for Google’s social network Google+, said the Facebook competitor is adding 625,000 members a day and has already reached 62 million. In his post — which, of course, appeared on Google+ — Allen predicted that the social network would have more than 400 million users by the end of 2012.

After hitting its new 52-week high early in the session, Google couldn’t maintain its gains, and its stock lost $0.55, 0.1 percent, on the day to close at $639.70. Competitors felt Wall Street’s pain to a greater degree, however: Apple fell 1 percent, and Yahoo declined 1.9 percent.

Holiday shopping hit its target, according to research

Early returns from the full holiday shopping season show retailers have reason to celebrate, as spending rose 4.7 percent between Dec. 1 and Dec. 24 from the previous year, according to research firm ShopperTrak. Sales rose 4.1 percent in November, which included Black Friday.

While more complete data will be available next week, early returns show that retailers found what they were hoping for — a 4 percent increase is considered a successful holiday season. the money came in fits and starts, however, with most of it being spent at Black Friday weekend sales and in the week before Christmas, according to the index, which estimates sales at 24 major stores including Macy’s and Costco.

The effects of holiday sales have not ended, either: according to a different survey, 18 percent of holiday gifts this year were gift cards, and stores do not count that cash until the cards are used.

Silicon Valley tech stocks

Up: SunPower (SPWRA), Gilead

Down: Jive, Zynga, Nvidia, VMware, Cisco (CSCO), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Netflix (NFLX), Yahoo, AMD, LinkedIn, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Adobe (ADBE), eBay (EBAY), Juniper

The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: down 35.22, or 1.34 percent, to 2,589.98

The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: down 139.94, or 1.14 percent, to 12,151.41

And the widely watched Standard & Poor’s 500 index: down 15.79, or 1.25 percent, to 1,249.64

Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/mercbizbreak.

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“No, it will increase demand because with the nuclear power plants being closed down or damaged or under duress, Japan will have to import more oil, everybody in the world will now look at their nuclear power plants again and probably have more demand for oil and natural gas. Japan is now going to rebuild, that is going to cause big increases in demand for copper and other things. Japan wasn’t building very much in the past 10-15 years, now there is going to be a big jump in the demand for building materials in Japan.” – in Economic Times

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Jim Rogers is an author, financial commentator and successful international investor. he has been frequently featured in Time, the New York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and is a regular guest on Bloomberg and CNBC.

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Do I have a good chance at acceptance to USNA?

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A couple I know say the Wall Street mess is a result of "Greenspan raising interest rates 16 times in 2 years" and not sub prime preadtory lending. Her brother is a realator, which is my suspicion of this slant. Greenspan was the Fed chairman for a long time and very respected, so there has to be 2 sides to this story……Why did he raise interest rates so many times? Aren't these problems intertwined?

Are my friend's right about the Wall Street mess being Greenspan's fault?

Does Rick Santelli have a book out on trading? he is the reporter on the bond market, and features market on Wall Street.

Hi i have a question about wall street. Does anybody know rick Santelli he reports on the bond market,?

as to what is best to do for the entire country??

Like right now, it seems whenever it looks like a bailout happens or is imminent, stocks rebound and when it looks like tough questions are being asked and perhaps that bailouts may not be forthcoming they tank.

So, which is it, should we just give wall street what it wants and believe that what wall street wants is best for great majority of americans??

Should the ups and downs of stock market that reflect what wall street wants govt to do be our guide?

If so, is there anything we need to do in advance?

No, not since 9/11.

Sorry, my friend, visits to the Stock Exchange is no longer avaliable. Its been so since after 9/11.

Good luck

Can the public visit the Wall Street Stock Exchange?

La cantidad de tiempo que dedicas a buscar buenas acciones es directamente proporcional al número de acciones que debes tener.Se necesitan varias horas cada cierto tiempo por cada una. Esto incluye leer los resultados anuales y trimestrales y las búsquedas de información periódicas. Un inversor individual puede hacer esto con 5 acciones como hobby.En 1983 la cartera de Maguellan tenía 450 acciones. En un año fueron 900. Esto significaba que teníamos que prepara historias para explicar en 90 segundos. Se convirtió en el 2º fondo mayor del mundo con 1.600 Millones$ en activos.Surgieron críticas diciendo que, como el Imperio Romano, Maguellan era demasiado grande para sobrevivir. Un fondo con 900 acciones no podía superar al mercado, porque él era el mercado. Fui acusado de control de los índices mundiales.

Un gran fondo puede comprar 1.000 o 2.000 acciones que nunca salen en el Wall Street Journal. Esto se llama “Fly off the radar scope” (Volar fuera de radar). Sin embargo, un poco imaginativo gestor puede tener 50 acciones que aparecen todos los días en los periódicos y tener una miiatura del S&P 500.Muchas de las empresas de mi cartera no ocupaban una posición importante por 2 razones:

• Eran compañías pequeñas en las que si aumentaba mucho mi posición podría mover el precio.
• No estaba muy convencido de ellas pero no quería alejarme y seguir en contacto.

Recuerdo una vez que acudí a la presentación de resultados de Jan Bell Marketing, una joyería de 200 millones$. Sólo acudí yo y los directivos. Me informaron de que estaban vendiendo mucho a grandes establecimientos minoristas. Lo que me puso en alerta para seguirlos, ya que seguramente también estuvieran haciendo dinero.Encontré varias empresas minoristas que desde su OPV inicial, habían caído en el olvido y estaban muy baratas. Empecé a llenar mi cartera de minoristas pero sólo hasta un 3% del fondo.Un tiempo después, el sector sufrió una severa caída que puede soportar porque era un porcentaje muy pequeño de mi total. No lo hubiera podido soportar si representara un 20% de mi cartera.A mediados de los 80 compre S&L, y era un 3% del total del fondo. Pero la prensa comenzó a enfatizar mi relación con S&L y al final parecía que mi fortuna o ruina dependía de las cotizaciones de S&L.Desde 1982 a1988 gané una verdadera fortuna con la industria del automóvil: Ford y Chrysler me aportaron 100M cada una, más 79M$ de Volvo. Fueron grandes ganancias para una pequeña porción de mi cartera, sólo eran un 8%. Nunca sabes cual de tus acciones es la que lo hará mejor.

Otra estupidez de los gestores de fondos es buscar sólo acciones con liquidez. Unas acciones que puedan vender en menos de 3 días. Es absurdo, los problemas van llegando poco a poco. Y si de verdad son gordos, en sólo 5 minutos estarás perdido. Y otras muy liquidas, como Polaroid, perdieron el 90% de su valor en sólo un año. Conozco a muchos que se quedaron confiando en que era un valor muy liquido.Sólo un 1% de los valores cruzan más de 10.000 acciones al día. Los gestores que confían en la liquidez, se ven limitados y vetados a comprar más del 99% del mercado. Es absurdo.

Conforme el fondo crecía, comenzó a convertirse en un problema el mantener la proporción de todos los valores, con su ponderación constante. Si compraba muy rápido, mi compra hacía moverse el mercado y subía hasta el nivel donde debía comenzar a vender.

Los siguientes 5 años algo cambió. Debía viajar miles de kilómetros a seminarios de inversión donde decenas de compañías tenían unos pocos minutos para explicarme su proyecto y que yo me interesase por él.

Con la excepción de los fondos de John Templeton, Maguellan fue el primero que compró con fuerza en el extranjero. Comenzó en el 1984. Todas las noches llamaba a Estocolmo, Londres, Tokio y Paris para empaparme de la información que mis traders me contaban.En 1986 ya tenía un departamento extranjero.En aquellos momentos me fijé en Europa. Estaba lleno de grandes compañías a punto de realizar grandes movimientos. de lanzarse a por el mercado global. El problema es que no cumplían las mismas reglas de contabilidad y hacía falta bastante ingenio para entenderlas.Comencé a viajar y comí y bebí vino en todo el continente. Suecia es un país muy formal donde las reuniones fueron perfectas y ordenadas. Allí descubrí a Ericsson, la compañía de teléfonos. Así como Skandia, fábrica de muebles, totalmente desconocida en América.En aquella época subieron las tasas de los seguros, pero las compañías suelen tardar muchos meses antes de que se plasme en sus cuentas. Es muy fácil comprarlas y ganar mucho dinero con ese ciclo.En Göteborg me entrevisté con toda la excitada dirección de Volvo.Hay gente que piensa que por razones culturales, algunos países se mantienen con mercados infravalorados o supervalorados eternamente. no es cierto, al final todos acaban cerrando el ciclo y vuelven a empezar.Cuando no encuentres nada bueno que comprar en tu país, mira en otro.Encontré una copia exacta de Hewlett-Packard a la noruega: Si funcionó en USA, ¿Por qué no funcionará aquí?. Se llamaba Norsk Data y fue muy buena compra.de Oslo, pasé a Bergen y Frankfurt dondé conocí el Deutche Bank. Quedé impresionado.Visité las manufacturas de Düsseldorf y conocí Bayer, una gran industria química.En Colonia descubrí que en las Autobahn estaba conduciendo el doble de rápido de lo que lo había hecho nunca, investigué si cotizaba y compré.Descubrí que la industria farmacéutica Suiza estaba mucho mejor preparada que la americana y cambié mi cartera de país.En Milán descubrí Montedison, una perfecta hidroeléctrica. En la ciudad de la última cena.En Venecia no pude disfrutar porque no encontré compañías a las que visitar.Un amigo me explicó que dos ferrocarriles japoneses tenían muy buenas perspectivas.Al final del año, un 10% de mi cartera estaba en el extranjero.

 Maguellán subió un 24% en 1986 y otro 39% en el 87. Provocó una arrolladora entrada de capitales difícil de gestionar.Empecé a comprar empresas que todo el mundo tenía pero que pasaban desapercibidas. Entre ellas encontré una preciosa joya: Fannie Mae. Tenía ingresos crecientes y constantes y cotizaba a unos ratios ridículos. Todo el mundo tenía acciones de Fannie Mae, pero en una proporción minúscula. La hice una de mis mayores adquisiciones.Aunque Maguellan subió un 39%, el S&P lo hizo un 41%. Eso me volvía loco.Mi mujer no entendía porqué estaba triste si había hecho ganar una fortuna a los accionistas.Al poco tiempo el mercado cayó un 20% y Maguellan sólo un 7%. Eso me hizo creer que era inmune a las caídas. Hasta que llegó el 11 de Septiembre de 1978.Durante las siguiente 9 caídas me di cuenta de que Maguellan caía más que el mercado en los cracks, pero que en la recuperación lo superaba y mejoraba por amplio margen.The Wall Street Journal publicó que yo estaba en Irlanda cuando todo ocurrió. Tuve que vender grandes cantidades de acciones para poder devolver el dinero a los accionistas que provocaban una gran salida de capital por sus ventas alocadas.Durante esos días descubrí que mucha gente tenía compras con margen apalancadas y que tenían hipotecas para financiarlas. Durante 5 días me reuní con mis traders para prepararnos para el gran desastre.Teníamos un 20 veces más cash (liquidez) que en cualquier otro momento de la historia de Maguellan. Y llegó el Black Monday.Los accionistas de otros fondos vendieron masivamente y los gestores se vieron obligados a malvender a malos precios. A mi también me ocurrió, pero menos.Tras la corrección compre todo lo que pude. Las primeras en subir fueron las empresas de crecimiento, pero enseguida las cíclicas comenzaron a pisarles los talones.Un 2% de mi cartera era General Electric, pero como General Electric era un 4% del mercado, en realidad estaba infraponderando una empresa que me encantaba.Maguellan ganó un 23% en 1988 y un 35% en 1989. En 1990 lo volví a hacer, pero decidí retirarme.El último día en la oficina Maguellan tenía 14.000 Millones$, 1.400M$ en cash. Aprendí de la gran corrección a no quedarme nunca sin él.Dejaba atrás a cientos de operaciones perdedoras en Maguellan, que iban junto con las ganadoras que he descrito. Lo importante es que no eran posiciones importantes. Hay que contener las pérdidas.No hay que tener vergüenza en perder dinero con las acciones, todo el mundo lo hace.Lo que es horrible es mantenerla o comprar más aún cuando los fundamentales se están deteriorando.Una vez perdí 33Millones$ en Texas Air. Pero no vendí hasta que los fundamentales se deterioraron. Menos mal que lo hice, continuó cayendo.(No importa lo barata que compres una acción, cuando llegue a 0$, habrás perdido el 100%).Las cíclicas son como el Blackjack, si pasas mucho tiempo con ellas acabas perdiendo seguro.Cuando una empresa es solvente, los bonos cotizan a 100. Si cotizan a 20.El mercado de bonos intenta decirnos algo. Está dominado por inversores conservadores que miran con lupa cualquier desvarío.

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What is the explanation for the gains on Wall Street?

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Since Main Street is usually mentioned when we discuss small businesses or home towns, the answer is YES.

Big businesses benefit first and will fill their own coffers from giant sources, like overseas markets, commodity trading, and loans/lending.

Then their profits have to go somewhere else. Governement taxes, payrolls, stock dividends, reinvestments and other purchasing options will occur and smaller businesses will see their own sales increase. the concept is referred to as 'trickle down economics' and was first sensationalized during the eight years that Reagan was president in the U.S.

Since then, the theory of trickle down economics has had supporters and detractors talking about whether it works or not. Let's hope that is works and continues to work for the sake of all of us that don't work in multimillion dollar offices.

Stock Market: Will Main Street benefit from the jump on Wall Street?