Market Update in Charts The major indices gave up some of last week's sharp gains. The Nasdaq has seen the most turmoil. Analysts noted...

Market Update in Charts It was not the elections that led to one of the biggest single-day rallies in the stock market but rather lower...

Market Update in Charts The October rally faded this week with concern over Federal Reserve plans to keep on turning up the heat on...

Market Update in Charts The markets have been rallying, for what appears to be the seventh time this calendar year. After bottoming out...

Market Update in Charts The markets are trying, led by the 30 behemoth companies in the Dow, to make a break higher. The S&P 500 and...

Market Update in Charts By the close today, the Dow rose 1.2% for the week, the S&P 500 was down 1.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost...

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. ~ Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas...

Market Update in Charts Stocks were broadly lower this week on news that inflation numbers rose by .1% instead of fell by .1% as...

Market Update in Charts Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke this morning at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. It took...

Market Update Earnings season is winding down and over all, it was a pretty standard affair. Some 3/4ths of S&P 500 companies reported...

Market Update Over 50% of the S&P 500 index components have reported earnings and more than half issued results that exceeded analysts'...

Market Update Markets were on pins and needles heading into this week given all the news that was coming – a Federal Reserve meeting, the...

Market Update This month investors have begun hearing from public companies on how the bumpy economy has been impacting bottom lines....

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. ~ Warren Buffett, American business investor and...

Market Update After saying that he did not think increasing rates by as much as 0.75% all at once was going to be necessary, Federal...

Market Update The stock and bond markets in the U.S. are closed for trading today for Good Friday ahead of Easter weekend. The markets...

Let's build a country of opportunities, where everybody is equal before the law and where the rules of the game are honest and...

Market Update Markets turned and flipped on the will-they or won’t-they drama playing out on the border of Ukraine where Russia has...

Market Update The week in stocks started out relative calmly, without the massive intra-day moves that have marked the year so far. Even...

Market Update To what can we attribute this rather emotional market? Let’s just blame Covid-19, or Covid-22 as a child in our orbit just...