Dec. 8th 2008
As we draw closer to the end of the year what does the market have in store for us this week? With a sharp rally…
“Job Losses Are Worst in 30 Years” Headlines across America will read tomorrow! But Wait …
The headlines across america will read similar to what we have written above. By no means are we discounting this news, this is negative news,…
Declining Gas Prices
While I am sure many of you have felt the relief of declining gas prices over the last few months, will this have an impact…
Market Jitters.
With the release of an important jobs report tomorrow morning, investors took money off the table in the final hour of trading today (as has been…
Tax Loss Realization : We will begin soon!
In taxable accounts at this time of the year we make adjustments to portfolios to realize taxable losses. What this means is we sell an…
Borrow Long and Invest Short in the Fixed Income Area
With long term rates at all time lows, now is the time to be a borrower if necessary. Mortgage or long term investment loans are…
Auto Makers Front and Center:
The big three automakers will soon be presenting their case before the country. We suspect they will be much better prepaired this time than they…
Stock Market Two-Step
After a run of 5 straight positive days for the stock market, we seemed to have returned to our one step forward, two steps back…
Monday of Red on our Screens, How much will we give back?
Not surprisingly the markets are taking back much of the gains we made last week, which we mentioned in a weekend post review of November…
November Market Summary
As Paulson pulled the plug on the original Tarp plans, stating it was not possible to generate the confidence needed, market participants, as measured by the…