Tag: interest rates
Are The Financial Markets Turning Into Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride?
Folks, if you're reading this blog it’s assumed you have some interest in the financial markets and, to a certain extent, the art of...
Stocks Behaving Like Latter Stage Of Market Cycles
In last week’s market commentary, I mentioned that currency wars and deflationary headwinds are curtailing growth. And this makes it hard to buy stocks...
Why Interest Rates Are Going Nowhere Fast
There has been a great deal of discussion regarding whether the Fed is going to continue down the path of ZIRP or if...
Will The Jobs Report Send Stocks Into Price Discovery Mode?
One of my favorite posts from this year was a post that I wrote in late June before I was on Sirius-XM's "Behind The Markets"...
US Treasury Bonds Recover As Economic Headwinds Persist
The second quarter was a difficult one for those like me that hold exposure to US Treasury Bonds. For those of you that regularly...
Markets Tame As The Fed Serves The Porridge Just Right
The market likes some level of "certainty"... especially when it feels like the market has been lacking it. Enter the Fed today. As expected, the...
Why Higher Interest Rates Are A Good Thing For Stocks
Will they or won’t they? The Federal Reserve has their decision on interest rates this afternoon and there is no way they raise rates...
Why Stocks May Lag Bonds Over The Near-Term
Are you comfortable putting significant new money to work buying stocks when they are at or near all-time highs? For instance, the S&P 500...
Market Volatility Likely To Hinder Fed Rate Hike
As the Greek drama unfolded last week, we also witnessed a meltdown in the China stock market, an unprecedented 4 hour halt in trading...
Why The Federal Reserve Must Keep Hopes Alive
The third revision of the first quarter of 2015’s Gross Domestic Product was released today and it showed that the economy did slightly better...
