Weekly Financial Market Updates

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Are Interest Rates the Only Story in Town?

We’ve been discussing market factors we are watching, recently. The recent items have included global trade with China, corporate earnings season, and interest rates. This week the Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, spoke again about direction for interest rates. The market pulled back for a couple days after his speech. I want to consider whether…

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Still Strong Earnings

It was a week of earnings data releases! This week we have received several pieces of data that can provide some guidance as to how the economy performed in the first quarter. Even with the good news, the market is not soaring to new highs. It is awaiting many other company results before deciding to…

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*Mueller Report* Are We In The Clear For Investing Again?

This week has brought some big news! Should we sound the all clear for investors to be buying stocks without any hesitation again? The Mueller Report was released Thursday morning which has kept many glued to their screens to review for anything important. Remember a week ago we shared how there are data being released…

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Earnings & A Trade Deal: We’ve Been Waiting

Earnings and a Trade Deal. These are two things that we are waiting on right now. It can be a painful process to wait and depending on the result of what or when these things happen, we will have different actions or decisions to make. 1. 2019 1st Quarter Earnings We await the results that…

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Expand Your View Point [With These Financial Experts]

You can physically only be in one place at a time. Now, we know there are some of you out there who think of the state lines or country borders where if you straddle them you are actually in two places at one time! Ok, we will give you that! The point we are making…

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TWO Things That Happened This Week

There were two things that happened this week we want to share so you continue to learn how investments work! First, you may have heard that Apple had an event this week! What has become normal for Apple is to update many of their current devices with new or better features. To investors this is…

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