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All eyes on the bond market.
The scale of the tariffs introduced by the administration shocked investors, sparking a roller coaster of a week for
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“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…”
The advice offered by Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If—” resonated last week. A sharp
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Risk-on. Risk-off.
If you read the financial press, you may have seen the terms “risk-on” and “risk-off”. When investing, there is a risk-return
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The market whisperer…
Last week, the Federal Reserve (Fed) left the federal funds rate unchanged, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell soothed markets. He
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A correction and a bounce.
Last week, the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index moved into correction territory. The Nasdaq Composite Index (Nasdaq) was
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What do weather and investing have in common?
From 1991 to 2020, the average temperature of the United States was 54.7° Fahrenheit. Of course, that
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Is it supposed to be doing that?
At the end of last year, economists believed the chance of a recession in 2025 was relatively low. In December
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A difference of opinion.
Broadly speaking, there are two types of investors: individual investors and institutional investors.
Individual investors buy
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Why are stock markets wary of tariffs?
In two of the last three weeks, tariff announcements led to late week stock market sell-offs. Stocks quickly
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Optimism headed south on Friday.
After rising for most of the week, stock markets lost momentum last Friday as economic data raised doubts about
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Wait! What just happened?
Last week, investors were inundated with market-moving data and news. Stock markets gyrated as investors tried to process
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What moves financial markets? The short answer is: Lots of things!
Almost one hundred years ago, Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd wrote, “the market
