by Scott Martin | Dec 13, 2019 | 7am News Flash
From a good Fed outlook to rumblings about a breakthrough on trade, istocks that struggled over the past year are breaking new records. The trade deal is reportedly all ready but the final paperwork. If so, Phase One is happening before the end of the year and...
by Scott Martin | Dec 12, 2019 | 7am News Flash
The final Fed meeting of the year has delivered the expected result but the real reason to cheer was buried in the central bank's 2020 outlook. We weren't holding out for another interest rate cut yesterday and we were far from alone. As such, the initial response...
by Scott Martin | Dec 11, 2019 | 7am News Flash
As a rollercoaster year winds up, a lot of investors are fighting a preconception that the last few months have been miserable for most stocks outside Utilities, Real Estate and other safe havens. Let's take a little time this morning to test that hypothesis. All...
by Scott Martin | Dec 10, 2019 | 7am News Flash
With barely three weeks left in the market year, investors have shifted into a cool campaign of ignoring news from Washington in order to nibble on stocks and sectors that have missed out on the year's biggest rallies. We don't mind. Reading between the lines...
by Scott Martin | Dec 8, 2019 | Weekly Newsletter 7pm Sunday
The Weekly Summary Another quiet post-holiday week left the market once again roughly unchanged as investors opted to follow the twists in the trade war instead of the trends the newly concluded earnings season established for the coming month. The S&P 500 gained a...
