Tug of War Weakening Global Economic Growth and Positive Post-Election Historical Trends 2018 has been a challenging year for financial markets around the world. The combination of slowing economic growth outside of the U.S., interest rate ...
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Here we are, midway through 2018 and we have an economy that is performing well, along with financial markets that are struggling to produce positive returns. If the stock market is a proxy for the underlying economy, then why the disconnec...
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Sir John Templeton, one of the greatest money managers of the past century was famous for his observation that the bottom of a bear market or significant stock market decline was also the “point of maximum pessimism.” Historical analysi...
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This past week the stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, wrapped up its best January performance since 1997, up 5.6%. It was also its worst weekly performance in two years, with the S&P 500 down 3.85%. Many investors are wonderi...
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Welcome to 2018! Despite the expectations for 2017 being a year of above-average volatility due to the big political shift caused by the Presidential election, it didn’t happen. As we moved into the new year, as far as stock markets w...
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