Nothing Can Stop America
…company – wow!). Still, I’m reminded of one of my favorite quotes of his: Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. …
…company – wow!). Still, I’m reminded of one of my favorite quotes of his: Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. …
…don’t have a picture of the dot plot, I made a chart with the same information (the dot plot was taking too long!). The first chart shows where members (voting…
…1965, when the total return (price and dividend) data starts for the DJIA, the annual return through June was 10.49 percent. To my surprise, the S&P 500 returned 10.50 percent…
…2007 due to sky high oil prices, the ex-food & energy, or core index, remained anchored close to 2%. Today, however, even the core index is rising at a 4.6%…
…preliminary indications), policy-makers will start to form a response. And all the while, markets will price in the new information – every moment of every trading day. So, it’s fair…
…tries to estimate whether the economy is in a recession. I’m sure that Ph.D.’s fight about this one a lot, but there’s a problem: the ‘right now’ is as of…
…The best return was in 1953, when a $1 investment grew to $1.88. The next best was in the roaring 1920s when $1 grew to $1.84. Now, as I highlighted…
…inflation numbers. The expectations are for the headline rate to come in at 6.0 percent year-over-year, and 5.5 percent year-over-year for the core, ex food and energy rate. As noted…
…to market. Last year, our traders went to market almost 23,000 times, trading $1.4 billion dollars of stocks and exchange traded fund (ETFs). Those numbers don’t even count mutual funds…
…areas of the bond market. Since Liberation Day, Treasuries are down -1.4 percent, mortgages are down -1.9 percent, and investment-grade corporate bonds are down -2.6 percent. Those are the three…