As the European Central Bank (ECB) has moved to reduce the potential for deflation in Europe, there has been a significant impact on the global interest rate landscape. This move by the ECB is likely to impact our domestic bond market for...
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Domestic stocks managed to post a positive year, although the advance was not as broad-based as prior years with mid-cap and small-cap stocks producing only about half of the gain of large stocks. Foreign stocks were negative for the year d...
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The price of oil is falling like a rock. Since June, oil prices have fallen more than 40% and last week the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) (the most popular benchmark for American oil) closed below $60 a barrel(1). After Saudi A...
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October turned in a wild ride for financial markets, as stocks, bonds and commodities all had volatile months. There were a number of interesting market moves that we could discuss, but I will just touch on a couple that I feel will be impo...
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As I write this commentary on October 11th, we are seeing the stock market as measured by the S&P 500 reach its second correction of 5% or more this year, with the first one being in January and reaching a maximum depth of -5.76%. His...
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