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January 2016
January 29, 2016 05:15 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Wow! Is the rest of the year going to be as turbulent as January? In 2015 volatility was low and complacency was high. All that turned on a dime when the calendar flipped. Before we turn to the week’s review, I want to remind […]
December 2015
December 28, 2015 11:30 a.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I hope you had a Merry Christmas season and are looking forward to a happy New Year. We didn’t issue a review last week because of the holiday-shortened week. This week’s activities also will be truncated. So I’m issuing this review in the middle […]
November 2015
November 25, 2015 12:00 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I hope each of you has a great Thanksgiving holiday. The markets will have a short week, and all the data for the week has been issued. So, I’m sending this week’s review early. The Data A week’s worth of data was packed into […]
October 2015
October 30, 2015 04:35 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There definitely are divergences in the global economy, with the U.S. separating itself from most of the rest of the globe. Within the U.S. the manufacturing sector is lagging while the rest of the economy is doing well. I expect these divergences to continue, […]
September 2015
September 25, 2015 04:50 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review This was another volatile and mostly negative week in stock markets. It also was a little confusing. There wasn’t much news to move stock prices, but they moved anyway. But the big news was Fed Chairman Janet Yellin’s Thursday night speech accompanied by a […]
August 2015
August 28, 2015 04:15 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There’s not much about the latest market turmoil that I can add to the email I sent out on Tuesday. I ventured that investors overreacted, that recent events were not another 2008. We likely would have a rally that would last for a few […]
July 2015
July 31, 2015 04:25 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Two events captured most of the attention this week. The first was China’s stock market indexes. The indexes peaked in mid-June after a year of gains around 100%. They quickly lost 30% from their peaks and attracted global attention. China’s authorities quickly took measures […]
June 2015
June 26, 2015 04:25 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There still is time to take advantage of your free registration for the San Francisco MoneyShow, July 16-18 at the Marriott Marquis. I’ll be making two presentations on Saturday, and we’ll have a booth throughout the show at which we can meet our members. […]
