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Three Stocks for the Strong Market

March 19, 2010
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Three Stocks for the Strong Market

The market is showing all of us a tremendous amount of strength.  Amazingly, on Wednesday, a whopping 602 stocks on the NYSE reached new 52-week highs–that’s the highest reading in years, and it has two implications. First, in the short-term (say, the next two or three weeks), it’s likely that the market and many stocks could hit a rough patch.  The huge number of new highs effectively tells you that enthusiasm has reached a crescendo … and when that happens, the late buyers are usually punished.  So I think a modest choppy period with the major indexes falling 2%...

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