Tag: financial markets

By Greg Naylor November was an eventful month, as the U.S. elections upheld the status quo in the House, the Senate, and the Presidency.  Markets...

By Greg Naylor October was an uneventful month for major economic news, although Superstorm Sandy closed the NYSE for two days.  This was the first...

By Greg Naylor September was an eventful month, as the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke announced another round of quantitative easing, commonly referred to as...

By Greg Naylor August was an uneventful month, as many market participants traditionally take vacation at the end of summer before school starts.  Although volume...

By Greg Naylor July was an eventful month, as the LIBOR* scandal made headlines, drought spread across America’s farmland, and Mario Draghi, the president of...

By Greg Naylor June was an eventful month, as the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare, Euro-zone members announced movement toward greater unity, and oil markets experienced...

Welcome to the Information Age, where word travels fast… real fast.  Where we can track news from many media outlets and across many different...

By Joshua Schroeder The strength of the current stock market rally has been impressive.  The S&P is up nearly 10% for the year and nearly 30%...

By Joshua Schroeder Recent US economic data have been surprising to the upside.  The combination of better than expected home sales, regional manufacturing activity and jobless...

By Andrew Nyquist It was April 26, 2011 and the closing price on the S&P 500 that day was 1347.24, roughly 5.5% higher than yesterday's...