Gary Dvorchak is a managing member of Channel Island Partners LLC, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund that manages large cap growth and growth-and-income funds. Dvorchak holds a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Iowa.

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Without Apple, the S&P's earnings trend is flat, not down -- but that's still far from ideal.
A key indicator is which groups have the strongest earnings momentum.  
No sane bond manager would make sovereign loans to bankrupt European countries.
The correction has probably run its course.
With earnings not behaving correctly, this rally should be extremely suspect to the informed analyst.
I believe the beast is becoming unmanageably large.
  If you had to choose, would you rather have owned ConAgra or Union Pacific than  Berkshire for the last five years?

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