Generally, investors dislike the prospect of significant downside for the stock market and their portfolios. As the popular stock market idiom goes, equities have a habit of taking the stairs up and ...

The Oracle of Omaha's "best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment" is giving off all the wrong signals ...

The “Warren Buffett Indicator” is a simple yardstick that compares the total U.S. stock market’s value to the size of the U.S. economy. It’s recently surged above 200%, a level Buffett once warned is ...

Despite what he observes as “excessive” levels of confidence, he noted that “history shows we still need a catalyst to come ...

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The Iowa Department of Revenue has released a summary of its latest Iowa Leading Indicators Index, which is an analysis of ...

The Index of Leading Indicators forecast a deep recession in the past year, which did not come close to materializing, for two major reasons. First, manufacturing, which used to have a significant ...

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