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Japan Going Godzilla
May 19th Weekly Market Update Godzilla, the latest version of Japan's King of Monsters, took the top of the box office this past weekend. But Japan’s stock market looks like a giant mutated lizard stomped all over it. One of the worst-performing stock markets in the...
The Best Indicator May Be a Long Way From Signaling the Start of a Bear Market
May 12th Weekly Market Update While stocks were relatively unchanged for the week of May 5 – 9, 2014, daily and intra-day volatility has been notable — the S&P 500 saw 1% intraday moves on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The stock market volatility of the past...
Global Earnings Picture Reveals
May 5th Weekly Market Update At the beginning of the year, many investors believed analysts’ forecasts for a faster pace of earnings growth combined with lower valuations would lead to stocks in Europe and Japan outperforming U.S. stocks. Now those earnings forecasts...
Run for the Roses
April 28th Weekly Market Update The Kentucky Derby is the longest running sports event in American history. Held the first Saturday in May, three-year-old thoroughbreds gather at Churchill Downs in Kentucky to compete over a blistering two minutes that ends with a...
The Big Bang Theory: Inflating the Stock Market
April 21st Weekly Market Update The Big Bang Theory, the most watched television comedy, is about a group of physicists and their aspiring actress friend from across the hall. The show often refers to theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper’s quest for a Nobel Prize in...
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