Chasing yield into riskier and riskier markets is a sure way to get clobbered. I'd stay away, but if you need yield that badly go ahead. Just keep your hand on the sell button at all times.

Linked in is an online hiring company cloaked as a social media company. Although it has grown some away from brick and mortar hiring revenues, it is hardly the social media titan it portrays. This is why it's stock isn't faring well. Sadly, its competitors are now also doing similar online websites. I generally despise them all. Traditional hiring brings more accurate real talent and gets rid of the ancient resumes that aren't updated for centuries and the social BS artists.

Nothing new at the Fed. I guess reality as opposed to knowing is still worth a tick up. Everyone knew the Fed would stand pat.

Watch out for tech. Last year was the big rollouts. This year there is really nothing new. No big upgrades, no killer apps, just lower prices and overhang. Even the phones... nothing new. Apple is not the only one hurting in the handset market.

Nice article. Sadly there are plenty of signs and plenty of articles warning people. This market is really synthetic with little individual investor money and lots of bank, mutual funds, and market maker handshake trades. The question is, who will be holding the shares when you can't get rid of them.

Generally, I don't think Fed action or money should be used or spent unless it is used or spent fighting economic contraction in a cyclical downturn. The Fed will already be hard pressed to fight the next downturn without spending money on infrastructure. If the Fed was a body of the government maybe I could see it, but as a independent entity charged with defending our monetary system I don't. Sorry.

Bankers like investment returns because since zirp they have been one of the biggest investors gambling rather than loaning. Re-institute Glass Stegall and their impetus will be to crash stocks and housing and raise rates. Sadly one needs only look at the banks and what they want the Fed to do to get richer these days.

LOL tax drops are not really a continual thing and C shares show that shareholders will stay as second fiddle. I dislike companies that try to dilute shareholders although it is sad to see it done with Facebook. Growth is good in this deadbeat economy. It makes buying hard to do although there are certainly positives in their business to make you want to own more of it.

Sadly I don't see the market breaking out to the upside anytime soon since deleveraging is probably the best investment most players can make at this time. This is further reinforced as a general move towards safety is underway regardless of whether or not the cycle has ended or not. Such discussion misses the point, even if the cycle doesn't end income growth is slowing and inflation is rising.

We will see if it reverts all the way back to the beginning of the year values. Maybe they are afraid Donald Trump will build a wall on their border too, lol. Needless to say, Canada will survive and if their currency dips too far it will be a buying opportunity. I'd much rather trust Canadian financial strength than the EU.

The beginning of the uptrend was genuine in the fact that it was on wide volume. Since then, it has reverted back to big financials and big mutual funds etc. Clearly one should have expected push ups by big banks to brush up their balance sheet ahead of earnings, but I agree, that has now passed and the upside is not sustainable given the lower earnings growth companies are sporting and inflation starting to show. Besides the Fed, I think no one thinks positively of broad based inflation especially in tepid growth. The Federal Reserve is either lying or needs their economic heads examined.