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Ups and Downs. Markets relented some of their gains on Friday as renewed fears of global trade and interest rates overtook Wednesday’s euphoria. Despite the drops, equities still posted a positive week. With the midterm elections out of the way (well mostly) and one of the three major unknowns off...

Take a breather. Markets took a day of rest yesterday to contemplate Wednesday’s spring and wait for the Federal Reserve’s uneventful release. Equity markets closed mixed around breakeven while crude oil continued its slip and bonds traded off. With very little in the way of stimulus yesterday,...

Wall Street Approves, For now, at least. After the largely expected election results were out, in which the Dems retook the house and GOP retained control over the Senate, traders elected to buy buy buy sending equity markets straight up. The S&P 500 closed right around its high of session, well...

Good to know. Markets rose yesterday in anticipation of the US midterm elections being over in a low volume day. Do you hear that? It is a sigh of relief because now we know. We know for certain what the pollsters have been predicting for many months. The Democrats have regained control of the...

Stay focused! Focus is the name of the game on this morning of mid term elections. It’s hard to think that the only game in town is the election that will happen today… but it’s not. To be clear, elections are extremely important and everyone should get out and vote. But what will the results of,...

It’s a marathon. Stocks slid on Friday after bad guidance from Apple, trade fears, and a strong economic number. Wait, “did he just say STRONG economic number” you ask. I sure did, but more on that in a bit. Apple released earnings after the close on Thursday and, as reported in my Friday’s note,...