Stock Market

Do You Have The Stomach [For The Stock Market Roller Coaster]?

Are you someone who likes the Tea Cup rides at festivals or theme parks?  Maybe you prefer the roller coasters that move through highs and lows at rapid speeds?  Whatever your stomach for these rides, does it correlate to your stomach for the stock market turns and ups and downs? Promising News & Volatility In…

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More Questions Than Answers

Do you ever go through seasons where you have more questions than answers?  And when you get one answer you feel like it just creates even more questions?  This is how I would describe the news of the week and the market movement that followed. Consider in our recent blog posts where we have discussed…

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Remember To Keep A Thankful Perspective

Remember To Keep A Thankful Perspective

We talk a lot about keeping a long term perspective.  But what about keeping a thankful perspective? Just like the long term perspective keeps us from making short term investing decisions, a thankful perspective can too. Many of you haven’t forgotten the financial crisis of 2007-2009.  However, have you forgotten how the market has performed…

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How do product trends affect your investments?

With the past six weeks of market volatility we understand it’s been discouraging to see the effect of this market pullback.  And there has been an encouraging bright spot this week! During the week we have seen the market try to make positive moves, only to move lower.  But even those brief moments higher are…

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Can Markets Correct Themselves?

Much of the current market pullback over the past few weeks has been instigated by talks of higher interest rates.  Fear that higher interest rates will push us into a recession has kept investors concerned. There are analysts who oppose the Fed continuing to raise interest rates when it could hurt the economy by raising…

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Positive Earnings Lead The Market Higher

This week had a full calendar of corporate earnings reported.  Let’s review these results to consider what to expect in the weeks ahead. Bank of America: 6.45% Positive Surprise Netflix: 30.88% Positive Surprise Abbott: In Line with Expectations PayPal: Positive Honeywell: Positive Schlumberger: Positive The majority of corporate earnings have been strong which has brought…

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