Annual Market Predictions: Insight or Entertainment?
Around the beginning of every New Year, we are treated to an array of prognostications by various market pundits, who would propose to tell us, as investors, where the markets are headed for the following 12 months. The S&P 500 index will end the year at X and the price of oil will be Y, they tell us. No doubt, significant thought and research go into these predictions. Sadly, however, despite being well-intentioned, hindsight usually proves that accuracy in such