Hope for the Bull But Prepare for the Bear
Are you having any fun yet? I’ll say one thing about this market—it’s not boring.
After plunging nearly 34% from the high at all-time-record speed, the market has staged an epic rally. The S&P 500 has more...
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After falling over 30% in record time, the market has had a nice rebound. In less than a week the market jumped 15% from the lows. It has since stabilized somewhat with less volatility. While the worst may be over, I don’t think out...
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The market doesn’t know how long this will last. And that’s why it hasn’t been able to find a bottom. But there has been some very encouraging news in the past week.
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Fear of the spread of a new virus has devolved into an economic disaster, at least in the short term.
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At the Mercy of the Virus
I’ve never seen anything like it. A virus has taken a powerful bull market from all-time highs to the cusp of a bear market (down 20% from the high) in a matter of weeks.
There wasn’t much market reaction all...
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This has been about as ugly a couple of weeks in the market as you will ever see. On a closing basis, the market hit a low on February 28 and was down 12.5% from the February 19 highs. By total points lost, was...
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Since January, this market had been merrily whistling along through the coronavirus risk. It was enough to cause a selloff for a day or two but not enough to derail the bull move to new highs that had been in place since early This...
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It is likely that a pullback in the market, as measured by the indexes, is increasingly likely in the near term. But that would be healthy and welcome. And it would set up things better for the rest of the year.
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A Perfect Answer for a Precarious Market
Here we are at a brand new all-time high for the market. Stocks shrugged off impeachment and are now whistling past the coronavirus. These are mere speed bumps for a market that seems destined to forge ever has...
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But the market is rising back faster than it fell. The solid economy and low interest rates are continuing to drive stocks higher, for now.
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News of the spread from China of a brand new virus roiled markets earlier this week. Although the market has bounced back somewhat, I don’t think we’re out of the woods yet by a darn sight.
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Here we are in an up leg of a bull market that began three months ago. Since early October the S&P 500 has climbed 14%. With trade issues and Iran out of the headlines, the strong economy and low interest rates are driving higher...
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The year is starting out great! There was some volatility associated with the Iran thing but it looks like that, along with trade issues, has faded from the headlines, for now.
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A Jewel among the Wreckage
This is one tough stock picking environment. It’s obscenely late in the bull market and economic recovery with the market near an all time record high. Sure, a similar situation has existed for several years. Okay, the economy is pretty...
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Here we are at the beginning of a new year and a new decade. A pivotal calendar turn like this is a great time to stop, get off the train, look around and see where we are, and where we might be going.
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A Great Way to Play the Growing Marijuana Industry
We are standing on the precipice of a New Year and a new decade. In a way it’s just an arbitrary date on the calendar. But new beginnings hold great promise and are an ideal to...
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Term preferred stocks and baby bonds offer some of the best fixed-rate bonds to buy on today's market. And right now, four of them stand out.
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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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An Amazing Opportunity from the 5G Revolution
The world is about to change in a major way. So much so that you may look back ten years or even five years from now and realize how profoundly different things are since 2019.
Identifying change is to...
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