- Gassing Up With Garbage
- UBS Target of Fraud Suit from NY Attorney General
- SEC Plans to Broaden Curbs on Short Sales: Cox
- 30-Year Bond Gains Full Point as Stocks Weaken
- FCC Agrees to Approve Sirius Pruchase of XM: Report
- Union Pacific Profit Rises, Beats Estimates
- Bristol Profit Beats Forecasts, Helped by Plavix
- Jobless Benefit Claims Rise above 400,000
- 3M Profit Up 3%, Tops Estimates
- Stop Trading!: A War on Wall Street
- Pisani: New ETF = Play on Mid-East Growth
- Existing Home Sales: A Look At Numbers That Weren't There
- Comicon: Not Just Funny Business
- See What People Are Saying About... Water Scarcity
- Microsoft's Ballmer Addresses Analysts
- Fast Money: Wall Street Got Drunk!
- Play the Coming Power-Grid Upgrade
- Microsoft's Johnson: What His Leaving Means For Company
![]() |
Five-star fund manager Barry James is known for his bearish views. He's correctly predicted bear markets.
His Golden Rainbow fund is up more than 11 percent per year over the last five years.
He's not bearish now -- not, at least, near-term.
Investor Takeaway |
"We think we're at an inflection point right now," the president and portfolio manager of James Advantage Funds told CNBC. "I'm bearish a lot of times when the Street is pretty bullish, but right now, we're pretty bullish on the next couple of months."
What looks good?
"Non-cyclicals should do well, overall, in a recessionary environment," he said. "They haven't done much so far this year."
He's talking especially about McDonald's [MCD
Loading...
()
] and Archer Daniels [ADM
Loading...
()
].
"The techs have been so beaten down, there's some real opportunities," he also said. "You look at Hewlett Packard [HPQ
Loading...
()
], or Seagate [STX
Loading...
()
], or Lockheed Martin [LMT
Loading...
()
], I think there's some real opportunities there. The techs are really selling cheap."




