Finances In The News

There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately about low interest rates and inverted yield curves. One newsworthy item that is being missed is how mortgage rates have dropped. As recently as last November, mortgage rates were approaching 5.00%. Now they’ve dropped all the way to 3.55% based on the latest survey from…

Last week we talked about an inverted yield curve and how many commentators believe that leads to recession. This week we’re going to look closer at what typically happens in a recession. The first thing to remember is that recessions are not uncommon. As mentioned in last week’s post, they happen on average about every…

It’s been another volatile week in the stock market. The big worry this week is that the “yield curve” inverted for the first time in 12 years. But what does that mean and why do people think that’s significant? Let’s have a look. Yield Curve, Defined The yield curve is a plot of U.S. Government…

If you were gone for the financial week on vacation, you might look at the S&P 500 and think that it was a quiet week in the market. The index is pretty much exactly where it was on Friday August 2. But did you know that the Dow Industrials were down over 750 points on…

This week brought volatility to market performance we expected might happen. You can hear our thoughts for why we believed the Fed would cut rates. The Fed did announce a drop of rates by .25%. This was largely expected by the market as well and already priced into stocks. If this was expected why has…

The market has been moving higher for the last ten years! Today marked another new high. So can it continue this pace of growth ahead? Here are a few things to consider as you consider whether your investments need a reallocation. Presidential Election in 2020 Next year we have a Presidential election. We are just…