In the Rear View Mirror: The week that was wasn’t the prettiest for investors with exposure to risky assets. In fact, it was downright ugly as all three major U.S. indexes closed down more than 2.5% for the week thanks to more problems courtesy of our friends across the Atlantic. Headlines involving … [read more]

There was a time when the luxuries of speaking with a financial advisor or broker were just that: Luxuries. And luxuries reserved only for relatively affluent investors, the types with over $100,000 to invest. Fortunately, there is one company looking to bring high-caliber investment advice to … [read more]

In the Rear View Mirror: It won’t go down as the best week on record, or this year for that matter, for U.S. stocks, but news that European policymakers moved toward a stricter anti-deficit agreement fueled an impressive rally for riskier assets on Friday. That was enough to send the S&P 500 into the weekend … [read more]

In the Rear View Mirror: The U.S. markets rang up their best week in two years even though Friday was basically unchanged. Finally some decisive steps by the Fed and other central banks to fix the European debt crisis sent stocks soaring on Wednesday…certainly more details are needed before we can consider this little more than a temporary … [read more]

In the Rear View Mirror: Thankfully the U.S. market was closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving. On Friday, stocks continued their downward trend as investors’ concerns about the European saga continued. The three main indices suffered their biggest weekly losses in the past two months and every index we follow flashed a bright red number. There … [read more]

Stocks have turned down since the beginning of the month, but not as severely as one might think. The Dow and the NASDAQ are off 3.8% and 6.1% respectively, and the S&P 500 has loss 5.2%. These somewhat modest declines in the face of so much disturbing news indicate that stocks have a lot of … [read more]

In the Rear View Mirror: Every major index that we follow took a beating last week with only the Dow and Amex staying in positive territory on a year-to-date basis. Regarding the European Debt Crisis, which remains front and center news…we found some interesting comments, and one from Yahoo Finance really zeros in on the … [read more]