It’s all about the buck
The financial media has been focusing on (obsessing about?) the relative strength of the US dollar of late, attributing much of the volatility we saw over the past week to the trader’s trying to guess […]
Article, Did You Know, Michael Maehl
Was that any way to celebrate a bull’s 6th birthday?
Both the Dow and the S&P500 achieved new all-time high valuations on the second of March. That same day, the NASDAQ closed above 5000 for the first time in 15 years. As an aside, having […]
Deflation? Not so fast…
It was a pretty good month for the US markets in February. Each of the three major market indicators closed with nice monthly gains and now have positive year-to-date return numbers. Right now, with interest […]
The Fed, rates and your bonds
The S&P and Dow each set new all-time highs on Friday, with the NASDAQ closing at its highest point since March 2000, within just 4% of its all-time high set at that time. Having done […]
Stock market trend continues positive
These past few weeks have done a fine job of reinforcing the effective impossibility of short-term market predicting. From Christmas through Groundhog Day on 2 Feb, we had a market drop of over 5%. Corrections […]
