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Why Dell Will Never Be Great AgainThose investors/readers who are of the persuasion that the U.S. stock market is about turn the corner should heed the words of caution from legendary banker Bill Seidman.
"There's always a chance of a large bank failure," Seidman told Newsweek. Seidman chaired the Resolution Trust Corporation, the federally-created liquidator for the last banking crisis in the 1980s.
Keep an eye on the big banks
A large bank failure would quickly extinguish what little momentum the market has established from mid July to early August, during which the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen from about 10,850 to 11,734. Economist David H. Wang said he will not attach a more-positive descriptive to the 884-point move, because he "doesn't want to create unreasonable, and unjustified, expectations."
"First, our technical analyst friends would say the recent move up is still well within the range of a bear market correction," Wang said. "Second, from a fundamental standpoint, we still have major headwinds."
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