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Do Rising Fed Funds Rates Cause Stocks to Fall?
With the news cycle being dominated by attention grabbing headlines regarding the Federal Reserve raising rates, many investors are asking questions about what stocks may do in the face of … Read More
Have the Tech Giants Been DeFAANGed?
By Wes Crill, PhD, Head of Investment Strategists and Vice President Investors expecting FAANG1 stocks to continue the extraordinary performance of recent years must be disappointed by their returns in 2022 (see Exhibit … Read More
This Chart Speaks for Itself
With the current news cycle highlighting war, inflation, mounting debt, market volatility, and more, it may persuade you to do something drastic with your investment portfolio – or not so … Read More
Why Investors Might Think Twice About Chasing the Biggest Stocks
As companies grow to become some of the largest firms trading on the US stock market, the returns that push them there can be impressive. But not long after joining … Read More
A Great Reminder
“Torn as we all are between greed and fear, we tend to do just the wrong thing. When the economy is sinking fast and stocks faster, we get more and … Read More
Good days follow bad days: How to keep from missing the Market’s biggest returns
If the stock market were a person, you would not want to be around them very much. Imagine a friend who reacts unpredictably to every major piece of economic news, … Read More
Reflections on the Downturn
The stock market suffered an ugly downturn on Friday. Chances are, you knew it was coming. In fact, so did we. Come again? Pretty much everybody knew that sometime, someday, … Read More
When to view charts and graphs with healthy skepticism
Pictures help us make sense of data. For example, when paleontologists unearth a single tooth, they can tell a lot about the animal it came from, including whether or not … Read More
A market correction does not mean a negative market year
You may not remember them, but there have been corrections in the U.S. stock market of between -3% to -48% during every single year of the last 42 years. The … Read More
The Crisis at Hand
At a time when many investors have become antsy about the U.S. stock market, one thing we did not need was an aggressive military incursion in Europe. But that’s what … Read More