Predictions for U.S. stock market in 2007

[Corporateburnout]

-29%

 

[DektolMan]

+11.875

 

[dmpi]

-29%

Let me guess... dollar collape + housing collape + Forign bubble bust + US terrorist attack + Fed Rate increase + Oil & gas shortage.

 

[kjpliny]

Let me guess... dollar collape + housing collape + Forign bubble bust + US terrorist attack + Fed Rate increase + Oil & gas shortage.

I'll take housing collapse + oil and gas shortage for a thousand, Alex.

You forgot war.

 

[Nords]

C'mon, you guys all know that the answer is...

.... 42.

 

[ex_CFO_now_RVer]

+5.5%

Dave

 

[JustCurious]

Here is a summary of the predictions so far:

Number of predictions: 23
Highest prediction: +42% (Nords)
Lowest prediction: -29% (Running Man)
Average prediction: +6.24%

 

[Nords]

Highest prediction: +42% (Nords)

I was wondering if I was being a little too subtle...

... am I the only one who still remembers the punchline to that joke?

 

[F M All]

I was wondering if I was being a little too subtle...

... am I the only one who still remembers the punchline to that joke?

No you are not - except it is not a joke, it is far more serious than that.

 

[d]

no doubt some will call "foul" ... but i'm stickin' with my typical +/- 10%

 

[thefed]

6.6

 

[Texas Proud]

I was wondering if I was being a little too subtle...

... am I the only one who still remembers the punchline to that joke?

I didn't think it was a joke... just the line in a book... or am I thinking of something you are not thinking

 

[Nords]

I didn't think it was a joke... just the line in a book... or am I thinking of something you are not thinking

Sorry, this comes up a lot in the submarine force.

From the Wikipedia entry: "According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings constructed the second greatest computer in all of time and space, Deep Thought, to calculate the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: 42."

 

[Texas Proud]

That is the line I am thinking..... but I would not call it a joke... it is THE ANSWER TO THE UNIVERSE!!!!

 

[uncledrz]

next year, any one year---dunno
overall, positive

 

[DRiP Guy]

I was wondering if I was being a little too subtle...

... am I the only one who still remembers the punchline to that joke?

No, I got it.

 

[JustCurious]

Ok, here is an updated summary (after removing Nords' fake prediction):

Number of predictions: 23
Highest prediction: +15% (mmg2681)
Lowest prediction: -29% (Running Man)
Average: +4.70%

It seems that as a group, we are a bit more pessimistic than Dr. Siegel:

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/futureinvest/18829

"Markets here and overseas are still reasonably valued and corporate earnings should continue to move upward. Hence I believe 2007 will be another good year for stocks, although returns will not be as high as 2006. U.S. stocks should return about 8%, with foreign stocks doing perhaps a little better."

 

[teejayevans]

What I like to see is the predictions made previously by the
so called experts.
Because even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Tom

 

[justin]

+4.7%

 

[kcowan]

What I like to see is the predictions made previously by the
so called experts. Because even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Tom

Hey predictions are easy. It is forecasting the future that is hard

 

[2soon2tell]

+7.5%

2soon

 

[WanderALot]

+6.3%

 

[Alex]

I predict another up year.

"Prediction is very hard, especially about the future." -Yogi Berra

 

[SecondCor521]

+10.7%

2Cor521

 

[mickeyd]

+7.5%