Market Update in Charts By the close today, the Dow rose 1.2% for the week, the S&P 500 was down 1.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost...

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. ~ Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas...

Market Update in Charts Stocks were broadly lower this week on news that inflation numbers rose by .1% instead of fell by .1% as...

Market Update in Charts Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke this morning at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. It took...

Market Update Earnings season is winding down and over all, it was a pretty standard affair. Some 3/4ths of S&P 500 companies reported...

Market Update Over 50% of the S&P 500 index components have reported earnings and more than half issued results that exceeded analysts'...

Market Update Markets were on pins and needles heading into this week given all the news that was coming – a Federal Reserve meeting, the...

Market Update This month investors have begun hearing from public companies on how the bumpy economy has been impacting bottom lines....

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. ~ Warren Buffett, American business investor and...

Market Update After saying that he did not think increasing rates by as much as 0.75% all at once was going to be necessary, Federal...

Market Update The stock and bond markets in the U.S. are closed for trading today for Good Friday ahead of Easter weekend. The markets...

Let's build a country of opportunities, where everybody is equal before the law and where the rules of the game are honest and...

Market Update Markets turned and flipped on the will-they or won’t-they drama playing out on the border of Ukraine where Russia has...

Market Update The week in stocks started out relative calmly, without the massive intra-day moves that have marked the year so far. Even...

Market Update To what can we attribute this rather emotional market? Let’s just blame Covid-19, or Covid-22 as a child in our orbit just...

Sure, there are a lot of things in life way more important than wealth. All that said…some people do get confused. I play golf with a...

Market Update The market rally that has pushed ahead for months is showing the slightest of signs of slowing. Although corporate earnings...

Market Update What a week this has been! Monday, July 19th was a starkly different day from the four that followed. All the major...

Market Update This week Fed Chairman Jerome Powell addressed lawmakers regarding the economic health of the country. He once again stated...

Operations for profit should be based not on optimism but on arithmetic. ~ Benjamin Graham (American economist and investor, 1894 - 1976)...