1. Hyre Weekly Commentary
April 23, 2012
The Markets
Move over European debt headlines, corporate earnings have something to say.
Even though troubles are brewing again across the pond in Europe, corporate earnings season in
the U.S. is stealing the spotlight. Why? According to CNBC, more than 100 companies in the
S&P 500 have reported earnings and 8 out of 10 have delivered better than expected results –
and that’s grabbed investors’ attention.
Each quarter, publicly traded companies update investors on how their businesses fared over the
previous three months. And, according to the updates we’re seeing, business is still looking okay.
The news helped push the S&P 500 higher by 0.6 percent on the week.
Now, like all statistics, there’s more than one way to interpret the earnings numbers. While 8 out
of 10 companies have beaten expectations, the “expectation” was pretty low. In fact, earnings
increased only 3.7 percent from the year ago quarter, according to Zacks. For the remaining S&P
500 companies that are set to report, Zacks expects those companies to report slightly negative
earnings growth compared to the year ago quarter.
Over in Europe, Spain and Italy saw the borrowing rate increase on their government debt, which
suggests their debt problem is far from over. And, the International Monetary Fund released a
report that stated the obvious – if the European debt crisis can’t be contained, it would negatively
impact global economic growth in a severe way.
At the moment, the U.S. markets seem fixated on corporate earnings and have put the European
problem on the back burner. But, in this interconnected world, problems overseas may eventually
find their way to our shores.
Data as of 4/20/12 1-Week Y-T-D 1-Year 3-Year 5-Year 10-Year
Standard & Poor's 500 (Domestic Stocks) 0.6% 9.6% 3.1% 18.3% -1.5% 2.2%
DJ Global ex US (Foreign Stocks) 0.9 8.4 -13.6 13.2 -5.2 4.9
10-year Treasury Note (Yield Only) 2.0 N/A 3.4 2.8 4.7 5.2
Gold (per ounce) -1.5 4.3 9.4 23.2 18.9 18.4

2. DJ-UBS Commodity Index -0.9 -1.8 -20.0 8.0 -4.3 3.4
DJ Equity All REIT TR Index 2.8 11.1 10.3 36.0 -0.3 10.4
Notes: S&P 500, DJ Global ex US, Gold, DJ-UBS Commodity Index returns exclude reinvested dividends (gold does not pay a
dividend) and the three-, five-, and 10-year returns are annualized; the DJ Equity All REIT TR Index does include reinvested dividends
and the three-, five-, and 10-year returns are annualized; and the 10-year Treasury Note is simply the yield at the close of the day on
each of the historical time periods.
Sources: Yahoo! Finance, Barron’s, djindexes.com, London Bullion Market Association.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Indices are unmanaged and cannot be invested into directly. N/A means not
applicable.
WHEN $1 TRILLION ISN’T ENOUGH… Earlier this year the European Central Bank
(ECB), Europe’s equivalent of our U.S. Federal Reserve, responded to the fear surrounding the
European debt crisis by offering unlimited three-year loans with a 1.0 percent interest rate to
European banks. According to The Wall Street Journal, at least 800 banks across Europe
responded to this offer by borrowing over $1.3 trillion. As planned, the banks then took a good
portion of that money and bought government securities that paid a higher interest rate. It sounds
like a great deal to the banks – borrow money at a 1.0 percent rate then turn around and buy
government securities that pay a much higher rate and pocket the difference.
The primary objective of this emergency lending was to indirectly allocate money to European
governments who are heavily indebted. The ECB thought that making cheap money available
would help lower interest rates in these troubled countries and “buy” them more time to work out
their economic problems.
How’s it working?
Initially, interest rates in troubled countries dropped dramatically as banks bought the high-
yielding government securities and fears of a collapse eased. Unfortunately, The Wall Street
Journal says many of the banks who borrowed money from ECB may have already exhausted
most of those funds – leaving little money left to keep pushing interest rates down. As a result of
this fear, interest rates are rising again, particularly in Spain and Italy, and, like a leak in a dike,
it’s hard to stop a rise once it gets going.
Will the ECB step in again and help European banks and governments avoid a Greek-style
default? It’s too early to tell, but either way, we’ll be closely watching this tug-o-war between
positive corporate earnings in the U.S. and negative headlines out of Europe.
Stay tuned…
Weekly Focus – Think About It
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
--Beverly Sills
Best regards,
Jim Hyre, CFP®

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* The Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) is an unmanaged group of securities considered to be representative of the stock market in
general.
* The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted index of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks.
* The NASDAQ Composite Index is an unmanaged, market-weighted index of all over-the-counter common stocks traded on the
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System.
* Gold represents the London afternoon gold price fix as reported by www.usagold.com.
* The DJ/AIG Commodity Index is designed to be a highly liquid and diversified benchmark for the commodity futures market. The
Index is composed of futures contracts on 19 physical commodities and was launched on July 14, 1998.
* The 10-year Treasury Note represents debt owed by the United States Treasury to the public. Since the U.S. Government is seen
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* The DJ Equity All REIT TR Index measures the total return performance of the equity subcategory of the Real Estate Investment
Trust (REIT) industry as calculated by Dow Jones
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