Investing for Life
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, July 16, 2021, before the market’s close. Today’s stock market resembles a duck gliding across a pond—placid on the surface but rapidly churning below. This week that picture came into sharper focus. While the S&P 500 index coasted along at or near record levels …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, July 9, 2021, before the market’s close. After the S&P 500 index set new records seven days running, stocks turned choppy this week. Concerns about the spread of COVID-19’s Delta variant planted doubts about the future pace of economic recovery in the U.S. and …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, July 2, 2021, before the market’s close. This week had us counting up records as we counted down days to the holiday weekend. While the S&P 500 index notched an all-time high each day this week, it’s been nearly two months since the Dow …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, June 25, 2021, before the market’s close. For about a second, infrastructure overshadowed inflation as the “I” word on investors’ minds. Lawmakers in Washington struck a tentative deal on Thursday to fund highways and bridges, build enhanced rail systems and expand high-speed internet access. …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, June 18, 2021, before the market’s close. Stocks have been weak all week—meanwhile, bonds swayed and ultimately rose in price. The reason: What was billed as possibly the most consequential gathering of monetary policymakers in decades. Traders hung on every word uttered by Federal …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, June 11, 2021, before the market’s close. The markets have adopted an Alfred E. Neuman stance on inflation: What, me worry? In a report eagerly awaited by traders and investors alike, the Labor Department announced Thursday that consumer prices were 5% higher in May …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, June 4, 2021, before the market’s close. Meme stocks are once again roiling markets, sending dramatically divergent signals about trading versus investing. The country’s biggest movie theater owner, AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC), is the meme stock scene-stealer of late—it’s up 2,322% so far this …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 28, 2021, before the market’s close. Wall Street prepared to end the sunny month of May in the black, despite mixed data this week revealing a fair-to-middling economic recovery experiencing pandemic-related whiplash. While inflation spiked, personal incomes dropped double digits, durable goods orders …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 21, 2021, before the market’s close. The tug-of-war between growth and value stocks, large and small stocks, and “risk on” and “risk off” assets continued on Wall Street this week—with a myopic focus on inflation duration and policy tea leaves competing against a …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 14, 2021, before the market’s close. May flowers unfurling ushered in good news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—fully vaccinated people can turn their unmasked faces to the sun again. While the idea of breathing freely might trigger a sigh of …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 7, 2021, before the market’s close. It’s tempting to say that everything’s coming up roses in May. And why not? Stocks have risen at a 40% annualized rate, while red-hot corporate earnings sparked a rally on Thursday that pushed the Dow Jones Industrial …
Read More keyboard_arrow_rightPlease note: This update was prepared on Friday, April 30, 2021, before the market’s close. It was a great week for the economy and corporate earnings. It was a so-so week for the stock market. Investors had no lack of data or current events to respond to as President Biden laid out …
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