Honey's Bob Brinker Beehive Buzz Archive

May 22, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-05-22T13:09:00.000-07:00

May 22, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today. Two important topics that Brinker did not bring up today were the Arnold Schwarzenegger scandal, and the rape charges levied against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the President of the International Monetary Fund -- who reportedly hoped to become the President of France.STOCK MARKET....Another stock market "Ground Hog Day" with Brinker reciting

May 15, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-05-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

May 15, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today. STOCK MARKET: Brinker reported the latest stock market numbers. Year-to-date total return on the S&P 500 Index = 7%.INTEREST RATES: Brinker said: "Rates are way, way, way down." He recited all of the current Treasury rates. Honey EC: Another Bob Brinker stock and bond market Ground-Hog Day. :) Brinker is still fully invested and

May 11, 2011, Bob Brinker, Oil, Commodities and Dan Dicker Interview

2011-05-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

May 11, 2011, Sunday, Bob Brinker's guest-speaker was Dan Dicker. This is part two of the Dan Dicker interview. Please see the post below this one for part one. Caller Jack from Lancaster asked Dan what is the chemical difference between propane and natural gas.Dan explained that natural gas liquids are a part of propane and is a subset of what comes out of the ground when drilling. Dan said

May 10, 2011, Bob Brinker, Oil, Commodities and Dan Dicker Interview

2011-05-10T19:36:00.000-07:00

May 10, 2011....Bob Brinker's third-hour guest was Dan Dicker. Dicker was an oil trader for many years at the New York Mercantile Exchange. He traded in natural gas, crude oil and heating oil futures. His latest book is "Oils Endless Bid."Brinker was like a dog with a bone and wouldn't give up his "president blaming the speculators and traders" rants. He seemed to want Dan to see his point

May 8, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-05-08T14:57:00.001-07:00

May 8, 2011....Bob Brinker is hosting Moneytalk today. Brinker wished "all of those who qualify" a Happy Mother's Day. Brinker said he was doing the program today from Colorado.Brinker comments summarized, paraphrased or excerpted:OSAMA BIN LADEN IS AS DEAD AS A DOORKNOB....Brinker said: "This is the week that we can finally say that we will not be dealing anymore with Osama Bin Laden. He

May 7, 2011, Mark Hulbert's Most Current Ranking: Bob Brinker's Marketimer

2011-05-07T16:55:00.001-07:00

May 7, 2011....At Bob Brinker's Land of Critical Mass website, they use carefully selected portions from Mark Hulbert's Financial Digest to advertise the Marketimer investment letter. So how does Bob Brinker's investment letter really stack up against other newsletters in HFD? And how objective is Hulbert when he ranks newsletter performances. A few facts that may surprise you.In the March

May 1, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-05-01T13:09:00.000-07:00

May 1, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today. Bob Brinker comments summarized, paraphrased or excerpted: STOCK MARKET: Bob Brinker reported that the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded at the 2011 high of 12,810 on Friday's close.....S&P 500 at 2011 high of 1363.63 -- total return of 9% year-to-date, including dividends. Brinker said: "If you go back over the past couple of decades, the

Bob Brinker's Five Root Causes of a Bear Market

2011-04-30T18:46:00.000-07:00

April 30, 2011....According to Bob Brinker, there are 5 root causes of a bear market:1. Tight Money2. Rising Rates3. High Inflation4. Rapid Growth5. Over ValuationA year ago on Moneytalk, Brinker reviewed these items and decided that they were all negative. Does he feel the same way now? Let's compare what he said then with what he is saying now on Moneytalk.1. Tight Money May 2010, Brinker

April 24, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-04-24T19:20:00.000-07:00

April 24, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk this beautiful Easter Sunday. Bob Brinker usually takes holidays off except Easter and Mother's Day.STOCK MARKET:Brinker reported that the financial markets are doing very well -- that the S&P 500 Index is currently just a hair away from its 2011 high, and the Dow is now at a new high for 2011.Brinker said: "You've seen a tremendous come-back in

April 23, 2010: Bob Brinker on Gold, Silver and Oil

2011-04-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

April 23, 2011....Let's briefly review what Bob Brinker has said about buying gold, silver or oil.OILBrinker hasn't talked about the recent rise in oil prices very much on the program. I suspect that he would certainly do that if the stock market started declining significantly, like it did in 2008 and early 2009.In 2008, Brinker said that the stock market was directly (inversely) correlated

April 17, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-04-17T13:09:00.000-07:00

April 17, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today.Bob Brinker's comments summarized, paraphrased or excepted:STOCK MARKET....Brinker reported the latest closing numbers for the stock market. He said the Dow is less than 1% under its 2011 high. The S&P year-to-date return, including dividends, is 5.5%. Honey EC: Brinker is still quite bullish in spite of the level of the market, and in spite

April 10, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-04-10T13:06:00.000-07:00

April 10, 2011....Bob Brinker was absent from Moneytalk today. Lynn Jimenez was fill-in host.Ms. Jimenez has written a bi-lingual beginner's investment book for families. She is the business reporter for KGO810 radio.In the opening monologue, Lynn did her usual good job of reporting all the latest market statistics. She commented that silver is at a 31 year high. (Honey EC: Silver has been a

April 9, 2011, Bob Brinker's Bear Market Forecasting

2011-04-09T17:13:00.000-07:00

April 9, 2011.....The last time that Larry Swedroe made a guest-appearance on Bob Brinker's Moneytalk, he indicated that the stock market was in a bear. That was March 1, 2008, when the S&P was at 1385, DOUBLE what it was one year later. Bob Brinker disputed Swedroe's claim of a bear market on the program that day. Swedroe doesn't put much store in gurus and forecasting. Maybe that is why he

Bob Brinker's Path to the Land of Critical Mass

2011-04-06T21:21:00.000-07:00

April 6, 2011...Some of you have posted in the comments section, speculating about how many newsletter subscribers Bob Brinker might have had over the years -- and now. Having a radio talk show where one can give out only carefully selected information is certainly an great advantage when it comes to selling "investment letters."A national radio show (even one day a week) gives one

April 3, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Commentary and Excerpts

2011-04-03T15:18:00.000-07:00

Posted at 10:03 pm, April 3, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today. Bob Brinker's comments summarized, paraphrased or excerpted:STOCK MARKET....Has been doing very, very well. Year-to-date returns on the S&P 500 is 6.4% including dividends..... which is less than 1% from the 1343 closing high for the year. Last year returns were 15%.....2009 returns were 26%....Honey EC: In March of

March 27, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-03-27T13:40:00.000-07:00

March 27, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today.... Bob Brinker’s comments paraphrased, summarized or excerpted:STOCK MARKET….Had a very good week. The S&P 500 Index was up almost 35 points to 1313.80, bringing calendar year 2011 returns to almost 5%. That is within 2% of its 2011 closing high. Other indexes following along.... A minor correction because of what happened in Japan, but

Bob Brinker Does a 1am Guest Appearance on WABC

2011-03-23T21:13:00.000-07:00

March 23, 2011....Yesterday, Rob from Pasadena informed us that Bob Brinker had made an hour-long guest appearance on a middle-of-the-night show on New York's WABC radio.Bob Brinker talked about what caused the crash of 2008. Brinker never addressed the subject on Moneytalk at any time when it was happening, but he has talked about it a lot over the past year and half with the

March 20, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-03-20T13:30:00.000-07:00

March 20, 2011, Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today.Bob Brinker’s comments summarized, paraphrased or excerpted:STOCK MARKET…Some volatility has come into the stock market in the month of March – not a lot – just a little. The S&P 500 is 1279, a year-to-date total return of 2% including cash dividends. Brinker said: “When we look at the correction, if you want to call it that. Some people call it

Bob Brinker's Latest Stock Market Advice

2011-03-16T18:52:00.000-07:00

March 16, 2011....Bob Brinker, the radio talk show host, has always promoted himself as a market-timing guru. What are his latest stock market timing updates?Moneytalk, January 16, 2011, Bob Brinker said: "The S&P at 1293, actually with a 3% total return year-to-date in 2011....."Are there going to be short-term corrections in here? Of course there are. It's my guess that there are going

March 13, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary

2011-03-13T21:01:00.000-07:00

March 13, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today. I had family commitments today so Jeffchristie has written a summary of the program for us: Bob Brinker began today's show talking about the situation in Japan. It started with an earthquake then the tsunami and now they face a nuclear disaster. We don't know how the nuclear problem will work out. While he sees this as a dire problem for

March 6, 2011: Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Commentary and Excerpts

2011-03-06T18:18:00.000-08:00

March 6, 2011....Bob Brinker did not host Moneytalk today. Lynn Jimenez filled in for Bob Brinker. Lynn Jimenez works as a business reporter at KGO Radio 810.This is the tenth week of the year and so far, Bob Brinker has been on the air a total of 7 days. It seems like since Moneytalk was cut to one day a week, Brinker's fill-in hosts are doing about 1/3 of the programs.January 2, 2011: Neale

March 6, 2011: Bob Brinker's Stock and Bond Market Advice

2011-03-06T07:22:00.000-08:00

March 6, 2011....Last week on Moneytalk, Bob Brinker said that the stock market is now in a cyclical bull and expects any corrections to be limited to single digit.He often talks about his July, 2010 buy-signal at S&P 500 Index 1030. What he never says is, that buy-signal was 353 points above the S&P low of 677 in March 2009. That's a miss of over 35%!In January, Brinker made some changes

A Memorial for a Very Special Cat: My Dolly

2011-03-04T18:25:00.000-08:00

March 4, 2011....At 5:30 this evening, Dolly had a final attack of kitty asthma that has been somewhat controlled with medication for several months now. I'm grateful that the vet could give me those extra months with her, but that doesn't ease the pain when the time comes to say good-bye to a cherished pet that has been a close friend for 13 years.The word that describes Dolly best is "sweet.

February 27, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-02-27T13:11:00.000-08:00

February 27, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today.BRINKER COMMENTS SUMMARIZED, PARAPHRASED OR EXCERPTEDBUDGET DEFICIT....Brinker said: "It is estimated this fiscal year that we will have the largest annual budget deficit in the history of the United States. Now the latest number out is estimated at one trillion six hundred fifty billion dollars to be added to the national debt as a result

Snow in Santa Cruz Mountains

2011-02-26T12:20:00.000-08:00

This may get a lot of laughs in many areas of the country, but snow in the Santa Cruz Mountains, especially close to the coast, is very unusual. I have lived here eleven years and it's the first time I've ever seen snow on my deck.The first two pictures were taken at 7:30am before the cloud bank had backed off so the mountains are not visible.The second two pictures were taken from my covered

February 24, 2011, Bob Brinker's Latest Stock Market Advice

2011-02-24T13:27:00.000-08:00

February 24, 2011....Bob Brinker's most recent stock market-timing advice is to dollar-cost-average during periods of short-term market weakness as a method of "adding to equity positions in the current stock market environment."The S&P 500 Index closed at 1306 today. Bob Brinker is predicting a target range of 1350 to 1400 zone for 2011 based on his P/E projections. But as usual, this all

February 20, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-02-20T13:10:00.001-08:00

February 20, 2011....Bob Brinker hosted Moneytalk today. The following Bob Brinker comments summarized, paraphrased or excerpted:STOCK MARKET: Brinker reported that the Dow and S&P 500 index closed above June, 2008 levels -- so far this year, up 7%. The Nasdaq is almost back to ten-year high. Brinker gave no hint of any change in his bullish outlook. STOCK MARKET REACTION TO A GOVERNMENT

February 13, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Lynn Jimenez Fill-in Host

2011-02-13T13:06:00.000-08:00

February 13, 2011....Bob Brinker took the day off from Moneytalk today. Lynn Jimenez was the replacement host. She is a business reporter for KGO 810 radio in San Francisco, California[Honey EC: There were a couple of interesting calls today. I transcribed portions of the Steve from Mountain View call. He probably would not have gotten on the air if Brinker had been hosting. And if he

February 6, 2011, Bob Brinker's Moneytalk: Summary, Excerpts and Commentary

2011-02-06T13:08:00.000-08:00