The jobs report and the market
The consensus of the economic tea leaf readers had the number of jobs being added in November at about 185,000. The highest estimate I saw had predicted an add of around 200,000 jobs. Then the […]
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Selected short market stories
With no, in my opinion, major event or market news to comment upon this past week, I thought I’d simply offer my thoughts on four topics that did come up. The market / It was only […]
Using 20th century data to guide 21st century investing
Deutsche Bank group chief economist David Folkerts-Landau reported that the S&P 500’s current correction-and-recovery episode, compared to the historical average, has the S&P tracking its average gains following prior 10%+ corrections. The markets are not […]
Riding the market cycles
It’s been a bit of a bumpy ride for the markets lately with fear, uncertainty and doubt having run rampant since mid-August when the current correction began. The talking heads of Wall Street aren’t helping […]
Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy
I have no market insights for you this week mainly because there’s not much to be insightful about. Little has changed, with the markets of late having been all over the place with the uncertainty. […]
