Financial Columnist

Ken Fisher is a regular contributor to several publications, including the New York Post in the United States; the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom; Australia’s most read newspaper, The Australian; Denmark’s leading business newspaper, Børsen; Ireland’s The Business Post; Singapore’s The Business Times; Taiwan’s Business Weekly; Caixin—often called the “Bloomberg of China”; Israel’s Calcalist; South Korea’s largest business paper, Chosun Weekly Biz; Japan’s Diamond Weekly; Spain’s largest business website and newspaper, elEconomista; Saudi Arabia’s Al Eqtisadiah; Mexico’s El Financiero; Germany’s Focus Money; Canada’s most read newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Switzerland’s leading business paper, Handelszeitung; the Hong Kong Economic Journal; Argentina’s Infobae; Belgium’s La Libre; the United Arab Emirates’ The National; France’s L’Opinion; Sweden’s Privata Affärer; Italy’s third-largest newspaper and number one business paper, Il Sole 24 Ore; the Netherlands’ largest newspaper, De Telegraaf; and Austria’s Trend.

Ken is perhaps best known for his "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine, which ran from 1984 through 2016, making him the longest continuously running columnist in Forbes’ history. You can navigate the full history of Ken Fisher’s market calls through his writings in Forbes via the Ken Fisher interactive timeline.

Not all past forecasts were, nor future forecasts will be, as accurate as those presented here. Forecasts are Ken Fisher's personal forecasts of the overall market as published in Forbes and do not represent the performance of Fisher Investments. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Investing in securities involves the risk of loss.

Are RBA cuts coming? Why it doesn’t matter

By Ken Fisher, The Australian, Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Despite incessant chatter otherwise, central banks don’t determine economies’ or stocks’ direction through their interest rate decisions. Pundits shriek, “The RBA must cut!” – convinced Australia’s economy and the ASX 200 need lower rates, especially amid US president-elect Donald Trump’s “scary” tariff talk. The US Federal Reserve’s 75 basis points of cuts since September and other central banks’ similar “easing” supposedly mean the RBA must follow suit.

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El futuro a largo plazo de las bolsas nunca es el que te imaginas

By Ken Fisher, elEconomista, Friday, November 15, 2024

Puede parecer un disparate, porque la mayoría de la gente piensa que la renta variable oscila a partir de los últimos eventos, o que se orienta al futuro lejano, o ambas cosas a la vez. En realidad, evalúa los factores que afectan a los beneficios en un plazo de 3 a 30 meses vista, y pasa por alto la mayoría de los rumores de última hora y las hipótesis a plazos larguísimos. Trataré de explicarlo a continuación.

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在波动的中国股市中寻求避险并非良策

By Ken Fisher, Caixin, Friday, November 15, 2024

中国股市今年频繁大幅波动:先是在年初急剧下跌,随后在春季陡然上涨,接着在夏季出现下滑,继而又在9月份受刺激举措提振繁荣上涨。在经历了两年多的熊市行情之后,许多中国投资者可能已经对这种大起大落感到厌倦,转而寻求避险策略。于是,销售经纪人进入市场,开始兜售保险和其他复杂产品,声称这些产品可以实现资本保值和增长。

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Fisher: Stigande arbetslöshet inget sänke för börsen

By Ken Fisher, Privata Affärer, Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Dysterkvistar hävdar att den stigande arbetslösheten i Sverige kommer hålla konjunkturen fortsatt svag – precis som de oroar sig för att stigande arbetslöshet i USA ska utlösa en lågkonjunktur där.

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不看長也不看短!看穿股市漲跌的魔法數字

By Ken Fisher, Business Weekly, Wednesday, November 6, 2024

試問氣候變遷、美國聯準會降息而台灣央行按兵不動、美國國債、科技巨頭的反壟斷訴訟及台灣人口「危機」之間有何共通點? 答案是:它們對股市的實質影響都不大。 你沒看錯!股市既不短視,也不過分展望未來。股市看的是影響未來三至三十個月獲利能力的因素,而無視多數的超短線消息與超長線推測,即使有理有據。

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