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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis

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To: ggersh who wrote (18081)	3/2/2009 3:15:32 PM
From: zamboz	Read Replies (1) of 71456

Good article on possible bottoms. finance.yahoo.com^dji,^gspc,^ixic So where would the S&P bottom if we hit the previous trough PE lows? It depends how we get there. If the stock market stops falling and earnings eventually begin to grow again, we would be close to the bottom: The market could simply move sideways for 5-10 years while earnings growth gradually reduced the PE to the 5X-8X range. This is what happened in the 1970s. Alternatively, the market could just keep dropping, as it did in the early 1930s. Using Professor Shiller's latest earnings data, here's where the numbers would fall out if the market just kept dropping and 10-year average earnings didn't grow from today's level: P/E S&P 500 Level 10X 575 8X 460 (highest previous trough low) 7X 400 (average previous trough low) 6X 350 5X 300 (lowest previous trough low) In short, if the S&P fell straight to the high-end of its previous trough range (8X PE, or 460), it would fall another 35% from today's level (700) If the S&P fell straight to the low-end of its previous trough range (5X PE, or 300), it would fall another 55+% from today's level.

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