Hoje tenho andado muito ocupado com algumas questões futuras do caldeirão, pelo que tem sido impossível ter a participação habitual aqui no fórum. No entanto, deixo aqui um artigo escrito há pouco pelo Cramer.
Um abraço a todos,
Ulisses
"'Big Six' Loom Over Would-Be Buyers"
By James J. Cramer
01/21/2003 09:11 AM EST
"We are in one of those moments when there are literally a half-dozen good reasons not to buy stocks. Let's just list the opposition for a moment, take stock of the catalogue of owning fears:
1. Iraq. We have gone to the United Nations and now we have to suffer the consequences of on-again-off-again.
2. Earnings are just plain unclear. I know the bulls want to say earnings are up. I say, Big deal. Microsoft, IBM and General Electric painted a picture of a world in which you have little hope of things getting better.
3. The next thing out of the Federal Reserve is a tightening, not a loosening. If gold keeps rallying and the dollar keeps falling, the Fed eventually will get nervous and raise rates.
4. Gold doesn't stop going up. This one's just amazing; it's as if the companies just had stopped producing gold and there wasn't enough to go around.
5. Oil won't stop going up. This is beginning to kill those companies, like GE, that need the feedstock to be cheaper.
6. The dollar won't stop going down. Sure, it's good for the exporters, but it makes our market mighty unattractive to foreign buyers.
My take has been, at least for Action Alerts PLUS, my private account -- which is up nicely so far on the year -- that you should build cash until some of these things have a chance to be resolved. Of course, the resolution to the oil and Iraq problems comes from the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The resolution of the dollar, Fed and gold problems is elusive.
Given that the rates are down, though, and the president has a decent plan to get the market going, I think you can't wait until everything is perfect. That's the reason I want to have maximum cash until the moment comes that the war issue is on the verge of being resolve -- until the guns are shooting, so to speak. Otherwise, I admit to being overwhelmed by the Big Six reasons, none of which are counteracted by the earnings I am hearing or the prospects of dividends going untaxed.
It's no fun to wait. But it's even less fun to lose money. "
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www.realmoney.com)