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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (17172)	4/24/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bill; Your not saying it the same way I would, but I can see what you mean anyway .. and our thoughts are on the same wave length..it's just we often don't express things the same way.. price of bonds fall = interest rates go up, as interest rates go up, ( if other things remain equal ) equities lose their ability to attract money. In general equities if they show good P/E can support higher interest rates, or equities can support lower P/Es if interest rates drop. Prior to most equity crashes interest rates get high , and equities lose their flavor. With low inflation..right now 6% looks good to me, better than 8% did just a few years ago. Do you remember back when Banks at one time payed 9-1/2% on CDs..I do because by luck I happened to buy into them..just before a big crunch came..I'm most sure this was during or at the late stage of when Jimmy Carter was our Czar. As things turned out I almost could not belive my luck, as it was not long after interest rates fell and I had cds locked in.. Jim