2006 Predictions
 

- Apple sells record number of commercial video downloads

- Free Wireless Internet Access covers commercial and residential areas; many skip home wired access

- Gwen Stefani has baby boy; does not sing in public this year

- Steelers win Super Bowl; Bettis MVP

- Warriors make NBA Playoffs; Swept by Spurs in First Round

- Oakland Arena naming rights finally sold; to be called Larry Ellison Grand Arena

- 49ers booed out of town; move to Anaheim of Los Angeles

- Whole city of New Orleans named Time's People of the Year

- China takes over the world. GO CHINA!

Rock Steady gets a sex change operation.

DOW 14000
NASDAQ 3000
GOOG 450
YHOO 55
RHAT 35

The Eagles will start the 2006 season with a great deal of promise due to some exciting draft picks and suck their way through the rest of the season.

Ohhh such a sense of deja vu....

Ravens sign Maurice Clarett
Victory declared, withdrawl underway (we'll be keeping some bases btw)
Kurds declare complete independence (good for them)
Small government Republicans continue to grow government
Dems urged to get behind unity candidate Hillary (unelectable) Clinton

DJIA 11800
bears and goldbugs continue to cry about the end of the world, hosers continue to bet on lame brained "momentum" stocks, old school investors continue to make money through flat market investing.

begin withdrawal from Iraq
many scream about the losses and failures of the war, more scream about the fantastic victory. most realize that accurate history won't be written for years to come.

overpaid crybabies will win rings and get more extravagant contracts. other overpaid crybabies won't win rings and will still get more extravagant contracts.

Jaguar will come out and admit that he is, in fact, Tony Blair. He has only been playing an elaborate joke with his friend GWB, a.k.a. Marichiko

Wouldn't that be sweet?

I suppose a DOW guess is in order... 11300

I think 5650 pair of DOW implants is pretty conservative. :eyebrow:

In 2006, embattled GM chairman Richard Wagoner Jr will take a page from Willy Wonka and lock 5 golden tickets in the glove compartments of GM cars and trucks in a desperate attempt to find a successor who can bring the company back.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Lookout is calling for a 10% DJIA increase. UT is calling for a 30% increase in 2006. 2005 saw no change in the DJIA. Also since 2001, no change in the DOW. Just wondering where a 10% or 30% increase comes from when nothing significant justifies such predictions and since people such as Greenspan and Friedman worry significantly about massive debt increases both in the consumer and in government.

Outta my ass. Where's your predictions?

well, let's see... massive cash stockpiles in corporate accounts, a realization that oil won't crash the economy quite as easily as some thought, a public that is starting to realize that it may be a good time to pull some money out of real estate (gotta have it working somewhere), and most importantly distance from the bear market. people will talk to the neighbor over the fence and realize that solid returns can be earned in a "flat market" and they will slowly move back into the water, and by doing so will nudge the market up.

I didn't see any reference to interest rates. Almost no interest rate increases are what other market monitors cite as a reason for market improvement.