Federal Reserve Holds Rates Steady, Indicates Rate Cut This Year… The Federal Reserve changed its description of the U.S. economy and gave an updated estimate of rates, implying two rate cuts by next ...
Week In Review – June 3 2019
President Trump Announces Tariffs on Mexican Imports… In an effort to prod the Mexican government to stem the flow of Central American immigrants crossing the nation to apply for asylum in the U.S., ...
Time to Review Risk
Many analysts expected a quicker resolution of the China tariff trade talks. The last Chinese negotiators to arrive in Washington, D.C. had stricken 150 of the previously agreed provisions. All the ...
Week In Review – May 28 2019
Trade War Puts Markets on Edge... President Trump seems to have settled in for the long haul, and a Chinese trade official said the time wasn’t right for a meeting. The markets dropped more than 400 ...
Headwinds Add To Summer Seasonality
The stock market mantra of "sell in May and go away" is not always the best investment policy. However, seasonality does accurately represent difficult months for the stock market more often than not. ...
Not Counting on Early Tariff Resolution
Hope for a better day or happier outcome of any issue is a very human trait. It is common to hear of hope for a U.S. - China tariff resolution, soon. Between cultural issues and decades of precedent, ...
Week In Review – May 21 2019
Trump Tariffs Tag the Market… Again... In a repeat of a headline from last week, Trump’s tariffs – and Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs – sank the market by more than 600 points on Monday. What it ...
Fears of economic problems in Europe created investor fear here at home on Friday.
March 23rd: “Buy the Dip” investment process when used in late stage economic cycles has negative results 2/3rds of the time. More than 60% of stocks are below the 200 day moving average – not ...
We Talked About a Variety of Topics
March 16, 2019 Reviewed 10 year anniversary of the bottom of the last bear market John called from Chicago reporting the Stock Market Reality webinar was an eye opener. Human genetics are ...
Week In Review – May 14 2019
Trump Tariffs Tag the Market... President Trump tweeted that he intends to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods and put tariffs on $325 billion in additional goods. He made good on the ...