November 17, 2017 @ 7:13 pm | Breaking News, Important Stuff |
Pick the biggest stock market turkey. Win $1000. By and large, 2017 has been a great year for stocks. Amazon (AMZN), for example, is up 50.68% for 2017 as of the close on November 17. Casting our nets wider, the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index is ahead...
October 13, 2016 @ 7:49 pm | Breaking News, Important Stuff |
On the surface and if you look only at the market wide indexes, nothing much happened today. The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, for example, finished just 0.31% lower–that’s 6.63 points–to 2132.55. But look at which assets and sectors...
September 14, 2016 @ 7:15 pm | Breaking News, Important Stuff, Leading Indicators |
Released yesterday, the Census Bureau’s annual report painted an extremely positive view of the economy as a whole. So positive, in fact, that I’ve actually got some hope now that the fundamentals of the economy might even justify record stock prices (at...
August 23, 2016 @ 3:26 am | Important Stuff |
Greetings from Norway. I’m in the land of fjords, Viking ships, and stave churches. It’s a quick trip with a few days in Oslo (where we are now) and then a train ride over the mountains to Bergen and some fjord-seeing with a flight back on Saturday. The site will be...