January 21st Weekly Market Update Some things just go together — like the Oscars and Meryl Streep. The actress received her 18th Academy Award nomination last week. It is not all that surprising since half of the annual Academy Awards over the past 36 years have...
January 13th Weekly Market Update The beginning of the year is often full of talk about what indicators to watch as to how the year may unfold: the first five days indicator, the January effect, the Super Bowl indicator, even the Chinese lunar New Year cycle, among...
January 6th Weekly Market Update Sure, the holiday season is over, but it is still the stock market’s favorite season. This week starts the earnings reporting season — the start of which is traditionally marked by the earnings report from Alcoa, no longer a component...
Each year that passes contains some wisdom for investors, but along with that wisdom can be some folly. 2013 was a year that bestowed an abundance of each on investors. The top 10 lessons of 2013 for investors need to be put into two categories: those that investors...
December 16th Weekly Market Update Winter Storm Dion shut down airports, schools, and businesses in parts of the United States last week in the midst of the holiday shopping season, but it is unlikely to have had a measureable economic impact or to cause a storm in...
