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Federal Reserve Welcomes New Voters: What Does This Mean for Monetary Policy
The Federal Open Market Committee’s first policy setting meeting of 2007 on January 30th will mark the start of a regime change within in the Federal Reserve. An annual rotation will strip regional Fed presidents of their voting rights within the FOMC, including Jeffrey Lacker, Sandra Pianalto, and Janet Yellen, and will bring a set of four different presidents to the table, including Michael Moskow, William Poole, Thomas Hoenig, and Cathy Minehan.
While the departure of members with extreme tightening biases, such as Mr. Lacker, would initially infer a more moderate posture within the FOMC, the addition of three decidedly hawkish individuals and one moderate dove has the potential to create one of the most vigilant monetary policy committees in recent memory.
NOTE: This Market Commentary alert was originally emailed to subscribers at Ritholtz Research & Analytics on Mon 1/22/2007 11:05 AM;
This is posted here not as investing advice, but rather as an example of a trading call for potential subscribers. We expect to post future advisories in a similar manner -- after the call, but in the correct chronological location on the blog.
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American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) - Bullish Sentiment Survey
Sentiment may be the key factor in terms of making the determination when this market may be tired and ready to significantly correct. Anecdotally, we have spoken to numerous individual and institutional clients recently about how long bull markets tend to build high levels of over-confidence; Those high levels of over-confidence are frequently accompanied by over-investment.
What sentiment surveys highlight is the level of investor commitment to the markets. Why? Surveys have shown that people become Bullish after they put their money to work. When sentiment is bullish or excessively bullish it suggests investors are at or near full investment. When that happens, there is little fuel left to power the markets substantially higher.
This report includes two of the indicators in our master sentiment model: 1) The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Bullish Sentiment Survey (above); and 2) the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Asset Allocation Survey (below). Each shows that investor confidence and asset allocations towards equities are at bullish (optimistic) levels. Although these levels are not at extremes yet, they need to be watched, as bullish and overly bullish levels suggest investor buying power is diminishing.
Since they act in a contrarian manner these bullish levels are typically symptomatic with future corrective activity.
A note of caution: Sentiment is never known for being a very timely indicator so it obviously needs to be confirmed by other metrics such as; price weakness, aggressive downside price and volume action as well as breaches of key support levels. We continue to watch $42.00 on the Q's, which we recently highlighted on Nasdaq Comp Review (January 17 2007) as an area of key support.)
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5 Week Moving Average American Association of Individual Investors (AAII)
Asset Allocation Survey
Note that the Asset Allocation Survey, while not terribly over-allocated to US Equities, is nears the high end of its range. Compare those levels with what equity allocations looked like at highs in 1998 and 2000, and again at lows in after 1987, 1990, and 2003.
We use a moving average to eliminate the short term noise and volatility associated with surveys of this sort. While the actual measure of asset allocation has pushed into the over-allocated zone, it would need to stay high for a few weeks to bring up the moving average into the danger zone.
We will be watching this crucial sentiment indicator closely over the coming weeks. . .
Monday, January 22, 2007
Wurde von ath in Posting 2923 bereits angesprochen.
28.01.2007 14:42:05
Deutsche Telekom senkt Ergebniserwartungen für laufendes Geschäftsjahr 2007
BONN (dpa-AFX) - Die Deutsche Telekom
hat ihre Ergebniserwartung für das laufende Jahr angesichts des massiven Wettbewerbs in der Branche erneut gesenkt. Das bereinigte EBITDA soll nun 2007 rund 19 Milliarden Euro statt der bislang angepeilten 19,7 bis 20,2 Milliarden Euro betragen. Beim Umsatz werde ein moderater Anstieg erwartet, gab das Unternehmen am Sonntag in einer Pflichtmitteilung in Bonn bekannt. Im abgelaufenen Geschäftsjahr 2006 fiel der Konzernumsatz der Deutschen Telekom nach vorläufigen Zahlen mit 61,3 Milliarden Euro ebenfalls geringer aus als erwartet. Gerechnet hatte der DAX-Konzern zuletzt mit 61,5 bis 62,1 Milliarden Euro. Die Dividende für 2006 soll mindestens wie im Vorjahr 0,72 Euro je Aktie betragen, hieß es weiter. Das bereinigte EBITDA 2006 soll im erwarteten Rahmen zwischen 19,2 und 19,7 Milliarden Euro liegen. Der Free Cash Flow werde voraussichtlich mit 5,5 Milliarden Euro rund 500 Millionen Euro über Plan liegen. In der Festnetzsparte T-Com liege das erwartete bereinigte EBITDA für 2007 derzeit 800 Millionen Euro unter der internen Planung, hieß es weiter. Die Mobilfunkgeschäft der T-Mobile werde bei dieser Gewinngröße mit 200 Millionen Euro durch Währungseffekte gegenüber den bisherigen Erwartungen belastet. Nochmals 200 Millionen Euro geringer als geplant falle das bereinigte EBITDA bei T-Mobile durch den scharfen Wettbewerb und den Preisdruck aus./fd/ck
Quelle:dpa-AFX
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