So here we are starting off the bad season or period in the market, May to October, with a market correction, making the Dow and S&P 500 negative for the year.  Blame Greece, China or even Puerto Rica but it does...

No one really knows what goes on behind the doors of the Federal Reserve, although for all practical purposes, the Quantitative Easing program of buying mortgage backed securities ended in the last quarter of 2014. The stock market is neither...

As I predicted in the 3rd quarter report, the market rallied into the seasonally strong year-end period. This quarter, the Russian stock market lost so much in value, due to the devaluation of the ruble, that the entire capitalization of...

Looking back on the stock market for the first three quarters of 2014 we have the following: a flat first quarter, a very bullish second quarter, and a volatile/flat third quarter. Since this bull market began out of the financial...

After a flat first quarter the market resumed its bullish ways and put in a solid second quarter of 2014.  During early April, the market corrected about 2.5 percent on the Russian/Ukraine crisis, although outside of this brief pull back...

Last year at this time, the stock market was off to the races going almost straight up; putting in an historic quarter. This year in the first quarter, volatility has returned and investment returns are flat; which was completely absent...

You have to go back 16 years to find a year when the market did not have a negative quarter during the calendar year.  In 2013 more money was unearned, sitting in cash waiting for the impending correction that everyone...

So does the burden of economic growth sit on the shoulders of monetary policy? It certainly seems like it does. Our government seems to believe that our economy is too weak to stop borrowing from the future to pay for...

So it looks like the straight up to the moon market was a one quarter phenomenon. As I mentioned in last quarter’s report this could not continue. Major stock market averages have been on a roller coaster ride since Federal...

Exactly like the first quarter of 2012, the stock market took off in January and did not look back. This quarter, the Dow Jones average was not even negative for two consecutive days. A parabolic move in both the Dow...