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Category Archives: Corporate Earnings

S&P 500, DJIA at new all-time highs on positive economic data

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not a coincidence. – Erma Bombeck In what is sounding like a broken record, both the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average set new all-time highs again last week on positive economic data, […]

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S&P 500 Index at new all-time high on earnings, economic data

If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor. – Charlie Munger, American businessman and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway The stock market […]

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Stocks soar to all-time highs on strong data, earnings

Know what you own, and know why you own it. – Peter Lynch Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index continued their surge last week and closed at all-time highs as investors cheered strong U.S. economic data, an optimistic outlook from the Federal Reserve and increased stimulus from the Bank of […]

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S&P 500 Index rebounds on strong earnings reports

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. – Warren Buffett The major stock averages rebounded strongly last week on better-than-expected third quarter earnings reports as well as positive economic data both in the U.S. and overseas. Upbeat corporate earnings were just the elixir that the stock market needed to lift it out of […]

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Stocks end volatile week lower on global growth fears

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud The fact that the S&P 500 Index closed modestly lower for the fourth consecutive week does not tell the whole story as […]

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Stocks slide on global growth fears

Go for a business any idiot can run because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. – Peter Lynch In a roller coaster week that saw stocks record their best day of the year as well as their worst day of the year, the S&P 500 Index plummeted 3% on heightened […]

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S&P 500 at all-time high on ECB rate cut

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. – Woody Allen The major stock averages closed modestly higher last week on news that the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to cut its key interest rates from an already low 0.15% to .05% in an attempt to stimulate weakening economies in the euro zone. […]

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S&P 500 closes above 2000 on earnings, economic data

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. – Oscar Wilde Positive economic data and better than expected second quarter corporate earnings again trumped geopolitical tensions as the S&P 500 Index closed at yet another record high, this […]

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DJIA gains 2% on strong earnings, economic data

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. –Oliver Wendell Holmes The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index recorded their best weekly performance of the summer as both economic data and corporate earnings were positive catalysts. With an easing of geopolitical tensions between Ukraine and Russia, the focus […]

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Stocks rise despite geopolitical tensions

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. – Warren Buffett Despite ongoing tensions in the Middle East, Iraq and Ukraine, the stock market closed higher last week on stronger than expected second quarter corporate earnings. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note even fell to 2.3% before ending the week at 2.4% as […]

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