Well, these advisors and analysts jumped the gun, as most fail to understand how a bear market actually works.

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2. Strong Corporate Earnings and the
Bear Market: How it Will Play Out
By Michael Lombardi, MBA
Remember this summer when the Dow
Jones Industrial Average had a couple of
400-point loss days and we heard so
many stock advisors and analysts tell us
we were headed straight into a second
recession…that corporate earnings would
plummet? Stocks fell 20% from their May
2, 2011, high and all of a sudden
headlines started to appear saying that
we were in a bear market.
Well, these advisors and analysts jumped
the gun, as most fail to understand how a
bear market actually works.

3. Let’s take a quick look at some earnings
reports from big American companies over the
past day or two:
 American Express Co. (NYSE/AXP) made $1.24 billion in the
third quarter, up 13% from the same period of last year.
 AT&T Inc. (NYSE/T) reported a big profit of $3.62 billion in its
last three months.
 Intel Corporation (NYSE/INTC) posted a 17% profit gain to
$3.47 billion in the third quarter.
 Morgan Stanley (NYSE/MS) beat analyst expectations and
made $2.2 billion in the last quarter.
 Even beleaguered Bank of America (NYSE/BAC) surprised
and reported a strong profit of $5.9 billion in the third quarter.

4.  All told, these few companies mentioned above added $16.43
billion to their coffers in the third quarter. Most of corporate
America is doing fine right now (see Three Big Money Profit
Stocks). And if they start to see earning growth slow, they’ll
simply cut payroll again.
 Where am I going with all this?
 For the benefit of our thousands of new readers, here’s where
we stand today.
 A 20-plus-year bull market in stocks ended in October of
2007. A bear market started in October of 2007 that served
to send stocks to a 12-year low on March 9, 2009…what I
refer to as Phase I of the bear market. On March 9, 2009, a
bear market rally was born. That rally, which is a classical
Phase II of a bear market, has been going on now for 31
months. Bear market rallies last three to four years.

5.  Strong earnings growth is coming from corporate America.
Pessimism amongst stock advisors and investors is also very
high. Bear market rallies continue higher under such a
scenario. A bear market rally has only one purpose: to give
investors the false hope that all is well and that stocks are a
safe bet. We’re not there with this mentality yet, but that’s
where we are headed. And when we reach that point, that’s
when the bear market will start to head south (Phase III)
towards its March 9, 2009 low.
 Sure, corporate earnings are strong. But the long-term
structural problems of the U.S. (i.e. underemployment of
16.5%; interest rates that have bottomed and can only rise; a
fiat currency in too much supply; inflation) will eventually
overcome corporate America and the stock market.

6. Michael’s Personal Notes:
As I write this morning, the price of gold bullion is down about $25.00 to $1,619 an ounce.
Twice since gold fell close to $1,600 an ounce it has bounced back strongly.
For die-hard gold fans, the number to watch, the support level for gold, is $1,500 an ounce.
At that level, I believe gold would be a screaming buy. At $1,500 an ounce, gold would have
corrected a full 20% from its record high of $1,895 reached on September 5, 2011. At
$1,500 an ounce, gold bullion prices would be severely oversold. At $1,550 an ounce, a
huge opportunity would present itself for gold investments.
There are plenty of reasons gold investments are still the place to be (see Answered: Can I
Still Make Money Buying Gold Now?). And the best way to make money in the 10-year
old bull market in gold is with the stocks of the junior and senior gold-mining stocks. I
would look at any price weakness in the gold-mining stocks as opportunity. One or two
years out, we will look back at the gold-mining stocks and realize what a bargain they
were in the fall of 2011.
As I wrote yesterday, all the money printing by world central banks since the credit crisis hit
in 2008 has greatly expanded the fiat money supply. And the more fiat money in circulation,
the greater the threat of inflation, as evidenced by Britain’s inflation rate hitting a three-year
high in September—5.2% annualized! We could be getting close to a real buying
opportunity for the gold-mining stocks (see Gold Bullion’s Price Action: Time to Separate
the Men from the Boys).

7. Where the Market Stands; Where it’s Headed:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average continues to hover at the
same level it opened at in 2011. Corporate earnings reports for
the third quarter of 2011 have been respectable thus far.
Pessimism continues to preside amongst investors and stock
market advisors. On the backdrop of continued earnings growth,
I believe that stock prices will rise.
A bear market rally in stocks that started in March of 2009,
although old and “long in the tooth,” as they say, presides.

8. What He Said:
“When I look around today, I see falling stock prices…I see
falling house prices…and prices for retail goods stores
declining. The media has it all wrong blaming (worrying about)
inflation. In my opinion, the single biggest threat to the U.S.
economy and to the Fed in 2008 is deflation. You can bet the
Fed will expand the money supply and drop interest rates
aggressively as deflation starts to rear its ugly head.” Michael
Lombardi in PROFIT CONFIDENTIAL, December 17, 2007.
Michael was one of the first to warn of deflation. By late 2008,
world economies were embedded in their worst state of
deflation since the Great Depression.

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