Back in 1987, right after the markets had experienced the famous “Black Monday” decline which took the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by 22.6%, the weekly Barron’s financial publication featured, on its cover, a suitcase with the frightened eyes of
We have just completed the final quarter, not only of the year, but also the decade. It is a good time to reflect upon the market’s behavior. The short version is that we have experienced a bull market for the
We want to wish you a safe and happy holiday season, and also let you know about the upcoming office closures: Thursday, 12/19/2019: Closed from 12:00PM to 5:00PM Normal business hours will resume on Friday, 12/20/19. Tuesday, 12/24/19, and Wednesday,
The latest three month returns in the U.S. and International stock markets can be viewed with two very different attitudes. The first is that many indices (though not all) produced a loss for the quarter, and where there were gains,
There has been a lot of news regarding the Equifax and Capital One data breaches. We felt the following information is important to get to you. Under federal law you are entitled to a copy of your credit report annually
We found the following post by Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust, well written and worth sharing. As of today, the current economic expansion is the longest in US history. Ten years and a day. But just because it’s
The long, painful market decline in the last month of 2018 seemed to promise more of the same for the new year of 2019, but at the end of the first quarter, the results couldn’t have been more different. The
2018—Not as bad as it seemed… Not long ago I was walking through a city park. High on a tree was a sign showing the high-water mark from the last great flood. The analogy struck me… We as investors always
This was the year the long, seemingly endless bull market came to a crashing halt–and U.S. investors finally, for the first time since 2008, experienced the normal definition of a bear market (down 20% from the S&P 500’s all-time high