There’s only one thing that I can say about last week’s market actions, “oh yeah, that’s gonna leave a mark”. Volatility was the word of the week with fear being the driving factor behind a 4% loss for the S&P 500 this past week. Are we in for more losses?
Who knows? Investor sentiment drives short-term [...]
A lot of volatility in the stock markets this week, ending with the three main indexes slightly in the negative, even after good economic news and positive earnings reports, highlighted by the two main weekly economic and markets summary sites that I follow -
The Vanguard Group, Economic Week in Review: A fragile recovery
Briefing.com, After-Hours Report: [...]
The end of last week and the beginning of this week included more than a handful of financial pundits and professional money managers calling for an end to this “sucker’s rally”. But yet, this recent Bull market persists in spite of all of these “expert” opinions.
The Dow ended the week +2.0%, the Nasdaq +1.8%, and [...]
All good news this week in my opinion. It looks like we’re beginning to get a taste of that honey well worth getting down and boogieing about.
Briefing.com: Weekly Wrap
The Vanguard Group: Economic Week in Review
Gallup: Weekly Economic Insights
Remember, the stock market is a leading economic indicator and usually turns Bullish months before the economy returns [...]
I’m not going to point out the various economic reports or the corporate earnings news for this week. If you’re a vigilant investor like me, you don’t have to have anyone else tell you what you already know. You know that there’s a positive feeling in the air about the economy and the stock market, [...]
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Weekly Wrap
It’s been a while since I’ve written a weekly wrap or actually discussed what I’ve been doing with my portfolio, so I thought it was time to let anyone who cares know what I’ve been doing (or not been doing), and what’s been going through my mind lately.
As we all know, this week ends the [...]