“The essence of investment management is the management of risks – not the management of returns. Well-managed portfolios start with this precept.” – Ben Graham Last Friday, as we were blissfully cranking along to another […]
Not a great week for the markets. A week ago last Thursday, the S&P500 hit its all-time high. Last Thursday, the same index was down by about 2%. I think it’s fair to say the […]
All three major US stock market indicators and most commodity prices closed the week just about exactly where they each ended the week before. We did have the S&P500 touch a new, all-time high on […]
According to the folks at Standard & Poor, it looks as if we’re ending the first half of the year up around 5% on the S&P500 Index for its sixth quarterly gain. Pretty solid result […]
This song title seemed to me to be a good way to define why the market rose this week. Given her hair color and pronouncements this past week as to the Fed’s planned intentions, I […]
