Weekly Financial Market Updates
How Did You Spend Your Stimulus Check?
How Did You Spend Your Stimulus Check? | How was your stimulus check spent? | Fee-Only Financial Advisor, Deer Park, Chicago, Barrington, Palatine
Fewer Eggs In The Basket
The stock market is being driven higher by fewer and fewer stocks. Why are investors favoring these companies and ignoring the rest of the stocks?
Nasdaq 20 Year Comeback Story
Why did it take more than 20 years for the Nasdaq to overtake the S&P 500 after the Tech Bubble burst? We look at the performance of these two indexes in this week’s post.
The 100 Year Loan
What’s driving the ability of Austria to issue 100 year bonds as extremely low interest rates? It’s the same policies that have driven stocks higher.
Economic Insight From Restaurant Booking Trends
On a recent trip to Tennessee my family and I enjoyed our first sit-down visit at a restaurant in over 3 months. It was awesome to eat some good food AND not have to clean dishes! What economic insights can we get from restaurant booking trends? One of the biggest casualties from COVID is the…
Stock Market Volatility Brings Opportunities
When stocks are volatile, how can investors take advantage of new opportunities? 2020 has been a great test case in how stock market volatility brings with it new opportunities.