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Consider also that in the past 70 years, there have been 11 stock bubbles and that every one of the ensuing busts included a fake-out rally of at least 30% and lasted at least two years before fully washing out, says Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. "This kind of bounce is what you expect," he adds. You also expect it won't last. The pullback, when it comes, will be severe if accompanied by news that suggests the economy won't rebound this year...
When will the skies clear? Tom Galvin, market strategist at CS First Boston, notes that the National Association of Purchasing Management's New Order Index has risen three months in a row. He expects mum companies to gain enough confidence to start offering guidance when they report second-quarter results in July. I'm all for making a sensible bet on beaten-up outfits that stand to regain their sight in a few months. If what they see is the start of a recovery, the stocks will do well. Meanwhile, visibility hasn't been an issue for many recession-resistant...
...George W. Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove is supposed to keep the President in a healthy political glow. But on one key issue recently, Rove stood by while Bush turned as gray as a hazy day in Houston. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty, suspended new arsenic standards for drinking water--and began to look suspiciously like the eco-villain Al Gore warned us about. Moderate Republicans were getting jittery. So last week Rove and other aides pulled out the green paints and brushes and set to work...
...then chief Bush strategist Karl Rove piped up in this week's TIME magazine: The price of drilling, in terms of political capital, looked prohibitively high. And so it seemed as if the environmentalists - after watching with what must have been a perverse glee as Bush spent much of his first 90-odd days galvanizing their ranks with eco-unfriendly announcements on everything from carbon dioxide emissions to arsenic levels in drinking water...
Health care faces fewer competitive pressures than virtually any other sector, says Morgan Stanley U.S. equity strategist Steve Galbraith. "The health-care industry does not face the risk of two guys in a garage coming up with a Netscape-like technology that suddenly reshapes the entire industry," he wrote recently...