NEWS & COMMENTARY

Aiming to shrug off the bad taste left by the 6% drop in May, stocks in June rallied back to almost exactly their levels at the end of April. While […]

 What are algorithms? How do algorithms affect the stock market?  In this month’s Video Market Update, Mary Ann Drucker, FSA’s Assistant Portfolio Manager, answers these questions and explains how […]

It may have all started with the 1968 epic film 2001: A Space Odyssey–the iconic battle between man and machine. With their ability to make calculations at lightning speed, computers […]

Stocks continued to march higher in April, trying to break out of their 15-month trading range. At month’s end, the S&P 500 index was just peeking at new highs. Large-cap […]

Sell in May and go away? Derek Kravitz, FSA’s Investment Analyst explains the history behind this phrase and how FSA is keeping it in mind as we approach the historically […]

Stock markets around the world continue to recover from the sharp sell-off in the fourth quarter of last year, though the rally showed signs of slowing down in March as […]

 Q1 2019 was the best quarter the S&P 500 has had since 1998. Will this smooth sailing continue, or does the inversion of the yield curve signal rough waters […]

Stocks continued to forge higher in February, frustrating many investors who expected stocks to follow their historical tendency and retest the low levels hit in late December. Instead, stocks of […]

 February was a quiet month as the stock market continued its upward trend and re-entered the trading range that was established in early 2018. Will the upward trend continue […]