Did you look outside today?! Did you notice anything weird?! Did anything hit you on the head when you stepped outside to grab your paper? No? Consider yourself lucky then, because if you logged onto any of the financial news sites recently – you noticed that apparently the proverbial sky is falling on Wall Street!…
Stocks on Wall Street had their least volatile two-month period in more than a hundred years this summer, as the S&P traded in a 2%-range from mid-July up until Friday. Experienced traders were prepared for that to change last week, as sadly enough, the summer officially ended with the Labor Day weekend. The holiday-shortened week…
State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending September 11th, 2016 (Declining Job Numbers Leads to Possibility of Rate Hike 9-11-16) The hard part of Friday’s stock market decline was the fact that the U.S. Federal Reserve was hanging tough with its multi-week hawkish comments about a September rate hike. The Fed even…
Today I wanted to talk to you about something a little controversial… Well, maybe controversial isn’t the right word – maybe it’s better to say that our subject today isn’t something most people want to talk about – almost taboo. Maybe it’s uncomfortable for them to talk about… Or maybe it’s just not their thing…
Stocks completed a mixed week before the long Labor Day weekend, but the major indices finished the period with a decisively upbeat session. Small caps and tech stocks quickly shrugged off the slight weakness that the Gorilla noticed previously, leading the broader market higher, following the somewhat bearish non-farm payrolls number. The mostly positive reaction…
State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending September 4th, 2016 (Declining Job Numbers Leads to Possibility of Rate Hike 9-4-16) It was one of those weeks in which we thought we would get some clarity, but clarity never showed up. The government jobs report showed 151,000 new jobs for August, which was…
If you’re an old school buff, what I’m about to tell you may freak you out a little bit… But if you were born before 1980 – everything you know about the way of doing business is outdated. Sure, us dinosaurs have seen many things change over the last few decades – but that’s nothing…
The major stock indices continued to trade in a very narrow range for the majority of the past week, before fading slightly towards the end of the week, and finishing off on a negative note. The main event of the week turned out to be Janet Yellen’s speech at the Jackson Hole symposium, which might…
State of the Stock Market Analysis for the Week Ending August 28th, 2016 (Markets Remain Largely Unchanged Following Fed Comments 8-28-16) The anticipation was hanging like a cloud over the stock market all week, and when we finally heard from Janet Yellen yesterday, the stock market barely flinched. It actually rose for a bit following…
I have a weird question to ask you… Have the markets ever beaten up your investments so badly that you can almost physically feel each blow that gets thrown your way? Because I’m going to let you in on a little secret most people in my position wouldn’t tell you… we ALL have. I don’t…
