Optimism Meets Pessimism | April 5th 2015

State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending April 5th, 2015 (Friday Showed Modest Gains 04-05-2015) There was optimism and pessimism ahead of the government jobs number on Friday, but the number was not that great. In fact, it was pretty bad. Expectations were for 248,000 new jobs in March, so the paltry 126,000…

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs | March 8th 2015

State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending March 8th, 2015 (Jobs, Jobs, Jobs 03-08-2015) Wait a minute. The bulls were looking for a strong jobs report in order to validate February’s big run up in equity prices, and that was exactly what we got. Friday’s government jobs report showed that an impressive…