Here we are within weeks of the end of year and the end of a decade. It is approaching the 11th year of the recovery and bull market. The S&P 500 is up 25% in 2019 and very near the all-time high. Where we...
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This has been a good year for the market. With only weeks left in 2019, the S&P 500 is more than 23% higher for the year. Some of that is the undoing of the overselling at the end of last year. But the has...
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The market mood is always changing. Just last week the market indexes were forging new all-time highs and cyclical stocks were the best performers. What a difference a week makes.
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The market still has an upward bias, albeit less so than the past couple of weeks. Investors are starting to sniff out 2020.
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The economy is still solid and the trade war thaw is taking away a big headline risk for the market.
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The market seems to want to move higher, albeit slowly and with rude interruptions from the headlines. The S&P 500 is within less than 1% off the all-time high set in July, although the index has been somewhat range-bound since June.
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The market is once again flirting with all time highs. The good week was driven largely by the announcement of a partial trade deal with China. But the main event will be earnings going forward.
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The indexes are near all-time highs in what is now the oldest bull market and recovery in history. And risks are mounting. There’s the trade war with China, the sputtering global economy, weaker growth at home and impeachment. The market is really struggling muster...
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October is a historically ominous month for stocks. After all, it is the month of the 1929 stock market crash and the 1987 crash. After a rough May and August we step into the mother of all jinxed months with a terrible start.
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George H.W. Bush was loved by many. And the stock market performance during his tenure suggests that Wall Street loved him too.
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If you’re breathing a sigh of relief that Barack Obama’s time as President of the United States is nearly over, you shouldn’t be. Or, at least, the investor part of you shouldn’t be. Obama’s eight years in office represent the fourth-best stock market by...
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You shouldn’t take analysts’ recommendations as the Holy Grail for a number of reasons.
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My list includes five stocks that are attractive from a growth standpoint and five that qualify as value stocks.
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While in Amsterdam last week, I visited the Tulip Museum on a whim. It was small, but informative. Before leaving, I bought a book called Tulipomania, less because I'm riveted by tulips than because I was out of reading material and Dutch bookstores closed...
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