Stay focused on the fundamentals
The European Central Bank finally announced the beginning of its version of quantitative easing last week, causing global stock markets to rise, the euro currency to fall to an eleven year low v. the US […]
Article, Did You Know, Michael Maehl
Lower oil – a blessing that feels like a curse
I’d love to be able to take credit for this phrase but, no. It’s by Andrew Sheets, an analyst at Morgan Stanley. I use it because his phrase does a great job of helping to […]
The U word and the stock market
This past week, woven in between a bunch of post year-end tax selling to lock up gains, we had a big, short-term drop in the price of crude; the Fed’s latest massage of their message […]
So, how’d we do last year?
The S&P folks say that both the S&P500 and the Dow Industrials hit their lows for 2014 early in February. By last Wednesday both had had fairly respectable years. Here’s what they did. S&P said […]
Sequence of Return, The Forgotten Risk
In my last blog, I mentioned the sequence of returns risk and its importance when taking withdrawals in retirement. You have probably heard about the math when trying to recover from a down market. As […]
