NEWS & COMMENTARY

The stock market has an uncanny ability to ignore various factors, until the point that it becomes obsessed with them. Short-term interest rates have been on the rise for the […]

Stocks have spent most of this year slowly climbing out of a hole created when they fell sharply in February and March. For technically oriented firms like ours, it is […]

Stocks are generally split into two broad categories: growth stocks and value stocks. Growth stocks are those that tend to generate earnings (profits) consistently, regardless of broad economic cycles, because […]

Stock and bond markets around the world are struggling to find direction in 2018. By this point last year, U.S. and foreign stocks were up by close to double digits, […]

What a difference a new year makes. Just when investors might have been lulled into the notion that a low-volatility and upward-trending environment was here to stay, the stock market […]

While 2017 was full of frightening headlines and constant bemoaning over both domestic and foreign policy, the market trudged ahead in an exceptionally low-volatility manner. Nothing seemed to matter, whether […]

While the weather for March may be much more unpleasant at the beginning of the month relative to the end of the month, the same could not be said for […]

Not many of us would envy the Federal Reserve’s job of overseeing the U.S. economy. It’s a monumental task, one that requires vigilant watch and careful utilization of tools that […]

Stocks have made an abrupt about-face in the early days of February after marching steadily higher in January, a continuation of the bull market party in place since the election […]