The Consumer Price Index: According to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics which has an excellent webste at http://www.bls.gov What is the CPI? The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid…
With much talk of inflation, and to be fair, much coming from our mouths as well, we decided to post a series of thoughts concerning inflation. What is Inflation? Investorwords.com has the following definition “The overall general upward price movement…
We applaud many new investment products, still under review by our firm see post But many times there are new products and investment changes we discourage. As you know we have written many times about the repeal of the…
As you know we have long been in need of a pullback in the Capital Markets. From the March low we have smartly moved up almost 40% without much hesitation. Markets, just like a marathon jogger, need a break, and…
Over the last several months we have seen a dramatic market move back to more smart values. But for a moment let’s look a bit deeper and see actually what has happened. If we classify stocks by their bond ratings,…
This Friday marks option expiration for various instruments within the capital markets. Option expiration is a regular monthly event and usually results in extremely high market volume and capital markets captivated by stock prices gravitating to option strikes. The summer…
As many of you know we had very heavy rain here in Dallas yesterday from around 10 am until about 1 pm. Our office electricity grid, for several square blocks, were knocked out for about two hours. Just as a…
Markets rarely move directly in a line and in an early post we stated “In a call with an investor yesterday I was asked “What would you like to see the Capital Market’s do?” My answer was simple, stay in a…
In our last post concerning interest rates, we included a graph and commented on the sudden movement of the 10 year treasury. Due to the many questions from our post and from the attention the genearal media has been giving…
If you are a client of J.K. Financial, Inc it is likely you will be receiving a class action mailer involving a spam issue several years ago. There is no action necessary on your part. Several years ago there was…
