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October 21st Weekly Market Update The budget crisis in Washington is over — for now. The 11th hour deal lifts the debt ceiling through February 7, 2014, and funds the government though January 15, 2014, returning furloughed government workers to their jobs. The bill...

October 14th Weekly Market Update The continued wrangling by lawmakers over the government shutdown and debt ceiling may overshadow earnings reports this week in drama, but not in importance. While Washington drives market volatility, the market trend is determined by...

October 7th Weekly Market Update Last week stock market investors continued to cling to, if not actually climb, the wall of worry. Stocks were flat for the first week of the government shutdown, but that masks the intraday volatility seen last week as drops were...

September 30th Weekly Market Update Down 8-to-1, Oracle Team USA won the last eight races in a row in an epic comeback to win the 34th America’s Cup last week. Almost as unexpected,the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note has fallen almost eight days in a row,...

September 23rd Weekly Market Update The Federal Reserve (Fed) "kicked the can" on tapering by unexpectedly postponing any reduction in the $85 billion pace of monthly bond buying at its policy meeting last week (see this week’s Weekly Economic Commentary:...