Not much action in the markets this past week. Market participants watched as politicians in DC postured and jockeyed for more face time in an attempt to look as if they were actually accomplishing something. Watching […]
This title has to do with the decision last Wednesday – one almost totally unexpected by the majority of economists, media outlets and traders – by the Fed’s Open Market Committee to do nothing about […]
You know how when you were a kid and you had one of those collapsible telescopes, how cool it was to make things far away seem up close? And then, you’d turn it around and […]
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 […]
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. […]
