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Eric Fry

Eric J. Fry, has been a specialist in international equities since the early 1980s. He was a professional portfolio manager for more than 10 years, specializing in international investment strategies and short-selling. Eric is a frequent contributor to the Daily Reckoning and the voice of the sometimes abrasive, mostly entertaining and always insightful Rude Awakening. His views and investment insights have appeared in numerous publications including Time, Barron’s, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Business Week, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Money. He appears regularly on business news stations including CNBC and Fox.

  1. Daily Reckoning

    Tracing Out a Head-and-Shoulders Value Line • November 16, 2009

    As the financial markets charge into another week of trading, the US stock market keeps staking its flag at ever-higher levels…sort of.
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended last week at 10,270 a new 13-month high for this high-profile index. But most of the broader failed to keep pace. In fact, they slumped lower! Options expert, …Read more…

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    An Agnostic View of the Financial Markets • November 5, 2009

    The stock market rallied throughout most of yesterday’s trading session, then stumbled into the close. This pattern has become unnervingly familiar of late. It’s true that the Dow has only dipped 2% since closing a notch above 10,000 on October 19, but the decline feels a bit worse than that. Maybe that’s because so many …Read more…

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    An Economic Glue Horse • October 29, 2009

    Your Daily Reckoning editors spent most of their waking hours yesterday traveling from one place to another…and only a small amount of their time watching the stock market fall.
    While Bill Bonner muddied his Gucci loafers in the Andes, Joel Bowman jetted from Taipei to Sydney and Eric Fry (that’s me) completed his reverse-commute from The …Read more…

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    A Moment of Silence for Fallen Put Options • October 23, 2009

    The S&P 500 Index jumped more than 1% yesterday – lifting the index to within a whisker of a new one-year high. So let’s have a moment of silence, please, for the millions of S&P Index put options that have died in vain… Thank you.
    As it turns out, not every sort of put option is …Read more…

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    Falling Down the Wells • October 22, 2009

    Whoops!…What’s this?…Bad news is bad news after all?
    Yesterday morning, Wells Fargo posted a cosmetically pleasing profit of $3.2 billion, or double the tally from the same quarter last year. So when the opening bell sounded, exuberant investors rushed into the market and bid up the shares of WFC.
    But then a very strange thing happened; the …Read more…