Who will win tonight, and what does that mean for the economy? I voted a couple of weeks ago, and I do feel strongly about my vote, but when it comes to the economy I think that there are only so many tools that anyone has at their disposal to fix the problems facing us
A friend and I were having lunch recently he and suggested that I write an article about volatility and/or non-correlated assets, but then felt that such a topic might be too specific and/or deep. Regardless, I thought that it was a very good idea, and I’ve combined the two topics herein. Hopefully, this will give
You can Google this question and find 1000 people with vehement answers across the spectrum. My take: we are not. What are the facts? Aside from an improvement in jobless claims, increasing productivity, and declining labor costs (all reported last week), presidents from the Federal Reserve of Boston and San Francisco have both stated that
“I’m weary of this moon; would he would change!” [from A Midsummer Night’s Dream] Midsummer; mid year. We are now halfway through the year, a very volatile one at that, and your feelings about stocks and the economy may be similar to the above quote. Because of that, I wanted to share a brief update
Remember the limbo? The younger you were, the lower you could go, partly because of height, but largely because of agility. The stock market has been on a steady decline for weeks (following a steady climb before that and it is still above where we began 2012), and many are still reeling from the precipitous
For the last six weeks in a row, and then yesterday, the market has gone down. Greece can’t seem to find leadership, sending jitters through the Eurozone. Banking giant JP Morgan is red-faced about a $2 billion trading loss. China, while growing, may not be growing as fast as we thought. What to do? Before
Everywhere I look, there are those with opinions about what to do with your investments. Should you “sell in May, then go away?” (This phrase is suddenly in vogue because it worked the last 2 years, assuming that you bought again in November. However, ‘sell in September’ would have actually worked better, but it doesn’t
Warning: potential Boredom Alert! If you want to skip the details, scroll to the last paragraph. So last week was not was not good for the markets as they were down over 1%, and now we have Friday’s non-farms payroll report which showed that 120K jobs were added in March vs. the 200K expectation. As
The vernal equinox, that date in the spring where the day is exactly as long as the night, arrived yesterday. Many call this the ‘first day of spring’, so on that note, I thought I’d talk a little about spring cleaning of your portfolio. Traditionally, spring cleaning meant (especially in cold climates) dragging everything of
Happy Leap Day! It’s been a couple of weeks since I wrote something, and what better occasion than a day that only happens every 4 years! Good news has abounded lately, and today the 4th quarter GDP number was revised upward, signaling a continuing climb out of the great recession. The price of oil appears