The three quotes below sum up my views on the chart below. The stock market is the most overvalued in history. You’ve been warned.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
But, but, but…Uncle Warren:
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has taken an 8.02% stake in Seritage Growth Properties Inc., the real-estate company split off from Sears Holdings Corp. earlier this year.
Mr. Buffett disclosed in a regulatory filing Thursday that he has bought 2 million shares in Seritage SRG, +0.32% . At Wednesday’s closing price, the stake would be valued at about $70.5 million.
The filing didn’t detail what he plans to do with the shares.
Thought you may get a deer in the headlights look out of that move.
Maybe he’s doing it for tax reasons?
If all that Fed “stimulus” money wasn’t staying in the financial markets you’d probably be seeing massive inflation everywhere else as it infused itself into the general economy.
Just inflation, not recovery.
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The Least Surprising Stat Of The Week: Corporate Insiders Are Dumping Their Stock
Submitted by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com,
Here’s one for the “actions speak louder than words” file:
Massive insider selling spurs stock market concerns
(CNBC) – Corporate insiders have been selling their shares at near-record levels, and according to some, this could be a sign for outside investors to start selling as well.
Investment research firm TrimTabs reported on Wednesday that insider selling reached $7.6 billion for the month of November, the fourth-highest monthly level on record. For some this may be an alarming indicator, as corporate insiders tend to have more knowledge than public shareholders on the inner workings of the company, and what may drive stock prices up or down.
“Historically when insiders are selling heavily it’s not the greatest sign,” TrimTabs’ chief executive, David Santschi, told CNBC in a phone interview Wednesday. “I’m surprised given the valuations in the market that they’re not selling more than they are.”
According to Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com, this combined with widening disparities in stock leaders and laggers could spell some short-term trouble for the market.
Why isn’t it a surprise that insiders are bailing? Because they see the reality of their businesses up close and personal. Revenues have been falling for the past year in many industries and have absolutely cratered in commodities. See the New York Times’ If it owns a well or a mine, it’s probably in trouble.
And after years of boosting reported profits with various kinds of financial engineering, corporations seem to have run out of tricks. Earnings have begun to reflect reality, and it’s not pretty:
Remove all the identifying information from this chart and the trend still screams “sell”. So the question, as noted above, isn’t why are they bailing, but what took them so long?
And remember that insiders are selling while the corporations they run continue to buy back huge numbers of shares with borrowed money. The implication? They’re supporting their stock in order to get out while the getting is good.