Weekly Financial Market Updates

After a few months of discouraging market movements downward this week brought a historic day in the market!  A late Christmas present arrived on Thursday bringing the largest one day gain in history. We’ve explained about Santa Clause Rallies before and what they are. Here’s a recap of the one-day large gains: The Dow Jones…

Have you ever heard anyone talk about buying stock on a dip?  This is a common way for investors to earn some additional return by buying when a stock has a lower price and it’s expected to bounce back.  However, the stock’s price has to actually go higher after that dip in order for this…

This week brought a pullback in the market like we haven’t seen in a while.  The past two years has really brought strong market returns that many investors have enjoyed.  So after a few days where the market has moved lower, analysts start to ask “why?” and how long will this continue? What we have…

What does it look like when you’re making great progress toward completing a project or solving a problem for the first time?  Does every step move along with ease? Or do you find small things that need fixed along the way? So then it feels like you take one step back to take two steps…

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…

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…