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![With the U.S. stock market at all-time highs — and at stretched value levels not seen since 1929 and 1999 — there’s never been a more important time to diversify your profits from stocks outside America’s borders. European stocks, for instance.](https://banyanhill.com/wp-content/uploads/european-stocks.jpg)
January 23, 2018 Stocks
Europe’s economy is on a tear. We’ve certainly seen it in our Total Wealth Insider portfolio, where one of our European banking stocks is up nearly 40%.![The markets have kicked off 2018 with a bang. The surge to start the year sent a popular ratio, the put/call ratio, to its lowest level in almost four years. Here's what that tells us to expect.](https://banyanhill.com/wp-content/uploads/put-call-ratio.jpg)
January 19, 2018 Stocks
As this ratio moves lower, it starts to tell us what we can expect from the market — and right now, it’s telling us to expect a pullback.![The chart here shows how unusual it is for analysts to boost earnings estimates at this time of year. As the chart shows, analysts are usually reducing their estimates in this three-week period. Here's what that means for the market.](https://banyanhill.com/wp-content/uploads/earnings-estimates.jpg)
January 18, 2018 Stocks
Tax reform will affect not just taxes but also companies’ earnings. And analysts have been scrambling to increase their earnings estimates.![President Donald Trump may not realize it, but he may be afflicted with an inherent belief in “othering," a sort of logic that dehumanizes or devalues opposed people.](https://banyanhill.com/wp-content/uploads/othering.jpg)
January 16, 2018 Government & Politics
President Donald Trump may not realize it, but he may be afflicted with an inherent belief in “othering," a sort of logic that dehumanizes or devalues opposed people.![When I recently met someone who thinks about value investing the way Warren Buffett and I do, I told my publisher here at Banyan Hill: “Let’s see if we can get this person into our team as soon as possible.”](https://banyanhill.com/wp-content/uploads/value-investing-brian-christopher.jpg)
January 16, 2018 Stocks
Brian Christopher is a modest person, so he won’t tell you all this himself … but he has the resume every value investor needs.