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Earnings: Stock Market's Brightest False Beacon
"It's simply not true. The flawed notion that profits drive stock prices is something that EWI has discussed numerous times over the years. For one thing, quarterly earnings reports announce a company's achievements from the previous quarter. The trends in earnings and stock prices sometimes even move in opposite directions, such as in the 1973-74 bear market when S&P earnings rose every quarter as the S&P declined 50%. More recently, earnings have been cycling with stocks, but that still leaves the problem of reporting delays, which leave investors eating the market's dust when the trend changes.
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