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The most bullish market factor is still the upward trend in earnings estimates for the S&P 500 in 2012.
This is the sort of bullish consensus I like to see; the Big Money is optimistic without being euphoric.
Gregg Giboney, Covestor manager of the Dividend and Growth model, puts the employment data in perspective.
Our favorite investments are undervalued wide economic moat businesses that typically sell products or services that have fairly predictable demand in both good and bad times.
An important question for investors is whether the lower historical returns from May through October are likely to be repeated in the future.
Adobe has been remaking its strategy and will soon be shipping the next version of its flagship product Creative Suite 6.
Some readers questioned whether that portfolio was truly conservative, and none of the three components was spared.