Here at last, the dog days of summer. Under normal circumstances, the stock market would usually be swooning by now from lack of attention while Big Money folks hang out in the Hamptons, hike in Maine, chic stuff like that. But as the late, great Erma Bombeck said, Normal is [...]
In the past few years, the S&P 500 Index has had some good results when many investors’ portfolios have experienced lackluster to poor results. Lend me a few minutes and I will attempt to explain this and hopefully provide some light on the subject. A large part of this phenomenon [...]
The crazy market swings and slumps of the past 20 years were hard for anyone to stomach. It’s one thing when you are working and earning a paycheck. Time is on your side and you have the opportunity to buy “discounted” shares of the market. It’s entirely another thing when [...]
I may not have harped on the subject lately or you might have become a more recent reader of this column, but today—short and sweet—I am explaining why investors should be surprisingly hopeful and positive about the stock market in the next 12 -14 months. Long time readers can recite [...]
If you are a serious investor, your biggest question has been or will be, “When will this present bull market come to its end? Over the decades, I have talked to hundreds of people who have had experiences and results from one end of the spectrum to the other. Most [...]
Last week I discussed the demographics driving American use of healthcare and its new technology. On average, we are living longer while generally enjoying better health. Many of us will eventually feel somewhat bionic through our high tech ceramic or metal spare part implants. In 1960 when current statistics began, [...]
I made some prediction for 2018 in an Examiner article dated on January 3, 2018. Since we are nearly at the half-way point for the year, it seems as good a time as any to review those predictions and either stay committed or change course. Overall, I was convinced that [...]
The water cooler topic of the week has probably been the dramatic movements downward in the stock market. It’s been a wild ride, that’s for sure. While scary, we hope to provide proper perspective. Market volatility has been historically low now for the better part of the past year. Not [...]
Everyone loves a good forecast. Problem is they are hard to come by -- good forecasts. Like the broken clock, they are likely to be right twice a day. In reality, a positive market forecast has about a 70 percent chance of being right on the overall direction. In most [...]
Through last Friday’s markets close, the stock indexes have already had a great year. Dow, up 26; S&P 500, up 20; NASDAQ 100, up 31 percentages. Yes, we may still be only a Tweet away from disaster, but Mr. Market obviously has liked the change in business climate. Other [...]
