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Stocks ended the holiday-shortened week down, snapping their five-week winning streak. However, losses were mild amid low trading volume before the Easter weekend. For the week, the S&P 500 lost…

After a historically rough start to the year, stocks finally rallied enough to put the S&P 500 and Dow in the green for the year. Extended weakness in the dollar—…

The environment for investors is changing directly resulting from the moves made by the European Central Bank last week. Despite ECB Chief, Mario Draghi's efforts, banks are losing their influence on…

Markets closed out a third week of gains, putting the Dow at a two-month high and erasing much of the year’s losses. Higher oil prices and an upbeat February jobs…

We have had such extreme volatility since the first trading day of 2016, that most investors would describe this market as ‘madness’. March will be critical to see if the…

After tumbling for weeks, oil prices stabilized close to $30/barrel after several major oil producers—including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela—announced their willingness to freeze production levels to fight low…

Amid volatile stock prices and disappointing global economic news, you may have heard a lot of chatter on media networks about whether the U.S. economy is facing another recession. In…

In this week’s update, we wanted to dig deeper into a major economic indicator that drives market analysis and activity: the monthly jobs report.

Stocks experienced another volatile week with high daily swings in value. Despite the lingering uncertainty, stocks ended the week higher on the back of better-than-expected earnings reports and higher oil…

US Markets have been trending lower since August – except for one big rally in October. A “Buy and Hold” strategy will probably not work here.  We believe more active management…