Although we have been calling for a choppy 2010 from late last year, given the market movements which at times felt rather dramatic even given our expectations, we set out to determine if markets really have been more or less…
Release Date: November 4, 2009 For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September suggests that economic activity has continued to pick up. Conditions in financial markets were roughly unchanged, on balance, over the intermeeting…
Federal Reserve statement that will be released shortly may prove to be a key determinant on the direction of the market moving forward. The market will look for any positive tones from the statement, especially expectations on how the economy looks…
Based on a conversation I had over the weekend, I thought I would share some information gathered about the popular GNMA (Ginnie Mae) bonds. Most investors have heard of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) because they have been the cause of many…
As the summer comes to a close, market participant’s will begin to come back from their vacations and once again focus on the direction of the market. Once again this course will be laid with the expectations of both the…
One thing most people can agree on is that we can expect more of what we have seen over the last few days from the markets moving forward. While it seems that each economist has their own view of what…
After last quarters earnings releases, market participants were not sure what to expect moving forward. Most analysts began cutting estimates for the following quarter, as we have seen with this quarters earnings releases, those estimates may have been cut too…
I am back from the AFG Conference and after almost a week of contemplation I think I have my thoughts in order to give an accurate account of what I learned at the conference. As I am sure most of…
Starting on Wednesday I will be attending the Applied Finance Group Annual Conference, this has been an annual conference that John and I have attended for 6 years in a row (which is also the number of times the conference…
One of the most well known sayings on Wall-Street is “Sell in May and Go Away,” the main focus of this saying expresses the view that traders and portfolio managers tend to take the summer off from investing. To do…
