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Myth-Busting: Earnings Don’t Matter Much for Stock Returns

The relationship between earnings and equity returns is more illusion than reality.

Earnings Estimates and Investment Decision Making

Earlier this week we polled CFA Institute Financial Newsbrief readers, asking, “To what degree do earnings estimates factor into your investment decision making?”

Earnings Headlines – What Do They Mean?

Brian Langenberg, CFA, dissucess his opinion of headline EPS results.

Poll: What Poses the Greatest Threat to Global Equity Markets?

As most global stock markets have been on a tear of late, we thought it would be timely to ask readers what posed the greatest threat to equity markets. Over 37% of the 974 respondents to this poll believe that a global economic slowdown is the greatest risk to stocks.

The Competing Incentives and Pressures that Influence Sell-Side Analysts

A recent study designed to decipher the “black box” of sell-side analyst decision making sheds new light on the driving forces behind two important outputs of their work: earnings estimates and stock recommendations.



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