Traders continue to enjoy the perks of a robust bull market on Wall Street, as the major indices once again proved their resilience to negative news. Volatility remained tame, even considering the hectic trading around the release of minutes from the recent FOMC meeting. The Fed’s rhetoric remains the center of attention, and the hints…
State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending April 9th, 2017 (Market Flat Amid Trump Meeting, Syria, and Job Numbers 4-9-17) This past week marked the beginning of a new month and a new quarter for investors. It began flat and quiet, and the buzz was that once we saw employment numbers from ADP…
There are many things that fathers (or father figures) are supposed to teach their sons… How to fish, how to change a tire, how to change the oil in a car, how to catch, hit, and throw a baseball… But the lesson most fathers take the most time and care with is…
Things got back to normal for traders last week following the most volatile period in quite some time, as the sharp correction in financials faded, and the major indices drifted slowly, but surely towards their all-time highs again. The Nasdaq continued to outperform the broader market, and small caps were also ahead of the pack,…
State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending April 2nd, 2017 (Amid Unrest, Stock Market Quarter Ends Impressively 4-2-17) We may have closed negative for the major indices on Friday, but the stock market closed out a very impressive quarter that saw the Dow rise 4.6%, the Nasdaq leap 9.8% and the S&P 500…
Where’s Marty McFly and his time traveling Delorean when you need him? While I’m sure some of us would use it to go back in time and tell our younger selves to buy some choice stocks… Maybe IBM (IBM) or Apple (AAPL), or maybe get in early on the whole dotcom era –…
Volatility shot higher last week on Wall Street as stocks turned lower in the aftermath of the Fed’s second rate hike in three months. The S&P 500 ended an incredible streak of more than 100 sessions without a decline of 1%, as investors were spooked by the Republican Party’s inner struggle regarding the planned…
State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending March 26th, 2017 (Stock Market Took Tough Week In Stride 3-26-17) It was difficult week on Wall Street, and we could probably blame the “Mad Hatters” in Washington DC. Tuesday’s big selloff was a one-day event, and it came with the backdrop of all sorts of…
If you’re reading this… you have the internet. If you have the internet… odds are, you’ve at least perused the vastness of Amazon’s pages – if not bought something from this online retail giant. You can buy almost ANYTHING on Amazon (AMZN) – from books, to toilet paper to your favorite brand of…
March 20, 2017 Traders experienced a strange, two-faced week on Wall Street, as all eyes were focused on Janet Yellen and Co. once again. The Fed lived up to expectations and raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25% following the similar move in December. Despite the tightening step, the Central Bank was far from being…
