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Yellen, Blazing New Trails, Questioned By Analyst On Biotech Comment

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Mark Melin
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When Janet Yellen delivered her semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins speech earlier this week, she did something rarely done by a Fed chair. She made very specific stock market sector investment recommendations.

Yellen, Blazing New Trails, Questioned By Analyst On Biotech Comment

Yellen trail blazing at the fed

Yellen has blazed her own unique trail at the Fed – sounding an oddly populist tone for a private institution that is owned by large banks. This includes her recently bold statements that both social media stocks are overheated and biotechnology stocks are “stretched.”

It was hitting the biotech that is currently finding reverb. Her call that biotechnology valuations are “stretched,...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.