Stock Market
The Results Are In: Retirees Are Spending Less
Tired of levitating frogs and determining why pants explode, the eggheads have turned their critical eyes to you, retired persons. More pointedly, how you spend your money. Articles in both…
Read MoreThe Economy’s Hidden Problem: We’re Out Of Big Ideas
The rally continues. Wow… what a run. Many stocks are at their 52-week high as the DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE becomes friends with 20,000. How long until 30,000? While I…
Read MoreTime To Go To Cash?
It’s early Wednesday morning as I get ready to fly back to Philly. With the Fed set to make an announcement later today, this column may be old news by…
Read MoreAs January Goes… So Goes The Year?
January is now behind us and it couldn’t have happened fast enough if you are an investor. With the Dow Jones industrial Average down 3.7% and the S&P 500 off…
Read MoreIs This The Beginning Of The Much-Anticipated Bear Market?
With the market gyrations over the past month, the big question is simply this: are we looking at the beginning of a bear market, or is this nothing more than…
Read MoreBack To School Time for Your Retirement
With summer just about over, it’s that time again – time for kids and grandkids to go back to school. The past few weeks have been full of purchases and…
Read MoreIndicators That Preceded Past Downturns Are Flashing Now
So much for new market highs every other day…or so it seemed. After the market rout on the last day of July, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was basically flat…
Read MoreCorporate insiders ARE selling. Should you?
Who knows more about what is happening to a company than the executives of that company? The answer is, of course, no one. Given this thought, doesn’t it make sense…
Read MoreWhat Does A Bond Bear Market Look Like?
Since 1981, interest rates have steadily fallen. For bond values, that represents the Garden of Eden, as bond values are inversely related to interest rates. And to be clear, inversely…
Read MoreWill This Be The Year The Market “Corrects”?
For the last couple of years, market prognosticators have been predicting a market correction. But thanks to the Herculean efforts of the Fed’s 24/7 money printing machine, markets had avoided…
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