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... graphic is quite helpful in knowing where you may want to allocate your stock positions relative to where we are in the economic cycle. Click here to see Economic Sectors and the Stock Market
There are ...
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The following article was written by Larry Swedroe from CBS Moneywatch. I think it does a decent job of summing up what's been happening over the past few months. Most importantly it touched on something ...
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... exposure to indexes/benchmarks among specific asset classes. Each asset class is then weighted specifically to what your risk tolerance, growth or income needs are.
Macro Economic Cycles
With global ...
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... e dramatic events of that period, an interest and passion for becoming a student of the markets was born.
Matt later studied Economics and earned a Bachelor's degree while also competing as a student-athl ...
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... towards larger and more economically resilient holdings in what could still prove to be a very volatile environment.
International
We’ve all been on a flight and heard the pilot announce, “we’ve put ...
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... pessimistic levels of recent history, yet the underlying economics and pure fundamentals of the stock market actually counter such negative and extreme doom & gloom sentiment.
If you’ve read anythin ...
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... it doesn’t mean we are entering a recession. Economic growth, albeit slow is still positive. We’re actually seeing fairly solid fundamentals; none of which smell of an impending recession.
It’s without ...
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... as of this writing (August 3, 2015).
Click here to compare the portfolio against the benchmark
There is a tug of war between overseas and domestic economic data. In our opinion it still leads us to ...
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... what you did in June except this time your volatile temper began to show more of a resolve and rattled investors. You began the month with some semi-positive economic news along with dovish Fed commentary ...
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... the summer season is the weakest of all of them and with a market that is perhaps getting more tired, we shouldn’t be surprised to see it struggle. Not only is the economic data telling the Fed that rates ...
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... ng 33% over the past seven years! While we could make economic arguments on how some debt levels can be beneficial, the reality is that eventually markets will be forced to react when the proverbial “Band-A ...
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... and specific stocks in the ten major economic sectors.
Key match-ups and seeds:
The NCAA Tournament always has a variety of teams that make it to the ‘Big Dance’. There are the teams that are peaking ...
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What does about a 60% haircut in oil prices mean to the stock market? Simply put, the bulls believe that it is a positive for economic growth and is basically like a huge tax cut for consumers and ...
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... Our take on this is that there is never such a time and no matter what economic period it is that you’re looking at there will always be something to fret and worry about. We just exited an almost unprecedented ...
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... In 2009 there was a study of 77 different national economies and 49 of those were in a deep recession. Guess how many economic forecasters had predicted a recession the previous year (2008)? Zero. That ...
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... or simply watching the market take a breather. Remember that the stock market is a leading economic indicator. On the whole if we are still in a gradual recovery mode your stance should not change drastically ...
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... that we are actually in recovery mode the market will continue to march upwards. It is telling and ironic to note, however, that even after five years of economic growth this country is not trusting tomorrow ...
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... escalate.
(2) Increased concerns over a true economic slow down in China.
(3) Realization (on a global scale) that monetary policy has grossly over-stimulated growth. (i.e It’s finally time to stop ...
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... do here is break down this fairly “efficient” asset class and choose some favorite companies within the 10 major economic sectors. For the sectors that we favor right now we have selected a few individual ...
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... who are stock piling in gold or hoarding cash in fear that the sky is about to fall. There is no shortage of doom and gloom forecasters who are quite good at convincing the public that our global economic ...