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February 3rd Weekly Market Update January saw a loss of 3.5%, the biggest one-month loss in the S&P 500 Index since May 2012. The main driver of the market weakness seems to be sharp currency declines and accompanying stock market losses in several emerging...

January 27th Weekly Market Update Last week the stock market slid 2.6%, reacting negatively to some mixed readings on global economic growth along with pressures on emerging market countries associated with the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) tapering of its bond-buying...

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...