Another bullish rally in the stock markets this past week. The Dow ended up the week with 0.6% gain, the Nasdaq up 2.1%, and the S&P 500 up 1.4%. But where are we headed now? I mean, stocks can’t go any higher, right? What to do? What to do? Is it time to ditch stocks [...]
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Bullish FOMC Statement
Stocks rose to a fresh 17-month high today after the Federal Reserve held benchmark rates near zero and maintained its pledge to keep them low for an extended period, alleviating some investors’ anxieties. Here’s some excerpts from today’s FOMC statement: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic activity [...]
What’s On The Horizon?
As often as I try to encourage amateur individual investors like myself to embrace independent financial analysis and to make their own investment decisions, as a previous commenter with a vaginal problem shows, there are still those who’ll regurgitate what them deem is credible information in an attempt to convince us that someone else has [...]
Third Quarter Growth
Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter of 2009, (that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau [...]
My Short-term Perspective
Although I sometimes speculate and invest in the markets using contrarian investment strategies, it’s usually because I feel pretty confident about my forecasts or where we’re headed. Unfortunately, I don’t have any of that confidence right now. I’m not too sure what to make of the markets lately and I really don’t have any strong [...]
Weekly Wrap
Capping a highly volatile week in the stock markets this past Friday, the continuing streak of gains in the big three market indices for this past two months came to an end.. convincingly. The Dow ended the week with a loss of 1.7%, the Nasdaq lost 2.7%, and the S&P 500 lost 2.5%. But, is [...]