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Add More Bond — James Bond — to Your Portfolio
February 10th Weekly Market Update It was 1964, 50 years ago, that the film Goldfinger debuted. It is the quintessential James Bond film and the first one to win an Academy Award. In Goldfinger, Q — the head of the gadget-making "Q-Branch" — presents...
Turn Down the Volume
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...
Investor’s Guide to the 2014 State of the Union Address
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...
The Meryl Streep of the Stock Market
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...
The Year-Two Curse
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...
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