Looking Ahead to 2012 Happy New Year! And this will be about as cheery as we will be as we take a moment to take a quick look at investing in 2011 and more importantly in 2012. 2011 proved to be another challenging year as economies, plagued by debt, continued stress...
Market Returns As of 9/30/2011 Index Name Market Segment Year to Date Returns 5 Year Annualized Returns S&P 500 U.S. Large Cap -8.68% -1.18% Russell 2000 U.S. Small Cap -17.02% -1.02% MSCI EAFE International -14.98% -3.46% MSCI Emerging Emerging Mkts...
Today the market took some sharp losses as I’m sure you’ve heard about excessively through your mainstream media channels. The major markets suffered losses around 5% just today (8/4/2011). We thought it was important for you to know our thoughts about the market and...
Markets closed the first half of the year with a bang. Through June 24th the S&P 500 was up just over 1% for the year. Then, in the last four days of June the market rallied over 4% to bring the S&P 500 up to a total return of 5.01% for the first half of the...
Yesterday’s (May 6th, 2010) Market Action and the Real Reason for the Fall Stock markets fell sharply yesterday (see below) with the DJIA (Dow) falling nearly 1000 points intra-day. The market rallied back from the extreme losses but still closed the day down over 3%...
Complacency in the Stock Market Summary Emotions are the greatest force that drives the markets Extreme fear has historically accompanied major market bottoms Extreme greed combined with complacency have historically been present at market tops A prudent money manager...
