Oil, GDP, QE and September
We ended August with the Dow lower for the month by about 4.5%, the S&P off by about 3.1% and the NASDAQ essentially unchanged. All three remain up nicely for the year. (1) The only […]
Article, Did You Know, Michael Maehl
Wall Street — Where Good News Can Be Seen as Bad
We didn’t have a real great market this past week. Matter of fact, according to the folks at CNBC, this was “the worst weekly performance by the Dow this year.” Though I agree with Mr. […]
Good Reports = Good Markets
This past Thursday, the S&P 500 broke 1,700 for the first time ever. While the number itself has no particular significance, it does represent another easily noted positive mark for the market. On Friday, the […]
Non-Related Thoughts on the Fed and Oil Prices
We had a slew of new records for the market indices this past week. In addition to each having posted their second-best weekly gains of the year, the Dow and S&P500 set new individual all-time […]
Vexed by Volatility
Though June was the first month this year to end with a loss – the S&P 500 closed down by just 1.4% – we still wound up with nicely positive results for the quarter and […]
