InvestorCenter

Stocks Are Becoming the Only Game in Town [Video]

The bulls have been on a stampede so far in December, putting the major averages on the cusps of their 52-weeks highs. The S&P 500 ($INX) gained 3.7% in just the last three days. Even Friday's disastrous jobs report failed to stop the rally.

The market's hot start to the month -- and remarkable resilience despite a surprise jump in the unemployment rate -- bodes well for the bulls into the home stretch of 2010 and beyond, says Cort Gwon, director of research and trading strategies at FBN Securities.

Stock market outlookThe Federal Reserve's second round of quantitative easing, or QE2, is having the intended effect of boosting assets prices, at least in the stock and commodities market, Gwon says. The way traders turned last week's bad news about jobs into good news for stocks was almost a perverse testament to the efficacy of the Fed's plan.

"QE2 is going to add $100 billion in liquidity per month for the next six or seven months," says Gwon. "And that's good because when you have a bad number like the jobs number on Friday, you're going to have the government add liquidity to the market."

A weaker dollar and a pickup in cash mergers and acquisitions also factor into Gwon's bullish outlook. But perhaps most important is the fact that stocks have finally put up decent-enough returns on the year to make the paltry yields on bonds almost impossible to tolerate.

"I'm fairly bullish here to until the end of the year and probably through the first quarter of 2011 because of money coming out of fixed income," says Gwon. "Rates are so low, people really have no choice or no option of where to put their money. It's going to come into the stock market."

For more on Gwon's view from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYX), see the video above.

Learn about investing from the comfort of your own home.

Portfolio Basics

Take the first steps to building your portfolio.

View Course »

Investment Strategies

Learn the strategies you need to build a winning portfolio

View Course »

Add a Comment

*0 / 3000 Character Maximum

31 Comments

Filter by:
LEE Resolution

Nobody wants to know anything about you.

December 06 2010 at 11:43 AM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

If Cat starts building on road vehicles, They will flatten the truck market and eliminate competition.

December 06 2010 at 11:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

I used Cat equipment for years, in West Virginia and Kentucky. Never had a final drive or transmission problem. Best hard rock equipment ever invented.

December 06 2010 at 11:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

get lost, Bubba, and while you're lost take a dozen years (at least), and get educated...

December 06 2010 at 11:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

Like Greenspan, every word that Bernanke utters is public information and subject to losses or gains (on Wall Street). He's got a tough job.

December 06 2010 at 11:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

And my guess is that when a company relocates, the vast majority of the work force doesn't relocate with them...

December 06 2010 at 11:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

After watching Bernanke last night (and I thought it was a pretty good interview), my thoughts are that what he's thinking about the gravity of the economic situation, and what he's posturing are poles apart.

December 06 2010 at 11:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

looks like the Teamsters guy in disguise........take a hike, we're working here.

December 06 2010 at 11:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

I thought that he (Bernanke), was right in that assertion...

December 06 2010 at 11:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LEE Resolution

As robust as the Chinese economy appears to be, they still have a dangerous downside that I'm certain lingers in the mind of every Chinese leader, There remains in China 3/4's of a billion peasants still working in the countryside that have no stake in the new economy. Ever mindful of revolution, it's a situation that's nearly impossible to deal with for the Chinese leadership.

December 06 2010 at 11:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply