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S&P 500 posts gains as Santa Claus doesn’t disappoint

The mistake we make as investors is when the market’s going up, we think it’s going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it’s going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. It doesn’t do anything forever. It’s by the moment. – John Bogle Santa Claus didn’t disappoint […]

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S&P 500 Index closes at record high as Omicron fears subside

Over the last few decades, investors’ timeframes have shrunk. They’ve become obsessed with quarterly returns. In fact, technology now enables them to become distracted by returns on a daily basis, and even minute-by-minute. Thus one way to gain an advantage is by ignoring the ‘noise’ created by the manic swings of others and focusing on […]

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Stocks tumble on Omicron fears, shift in Fed policy

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. – Warren Buffett The worrisome spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and the prospect of tighter monetary policy by the Federal Reserve were too much for the stock market to overcome last week as the S&P […]

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S&P 500 closes at all-time high despite hotter than expected CPI

In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way to predict what the market will do, one must follow a value philosophy at all times. – Seth Klarman, American hedge fund manager Stocks rebounded strongly last week as concerns about the spread of the […]

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Omicron variant and Fed comments spook markets, stocks fall

The stock market goes up or down and you can’t adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment. – John Paulson The weakness in stocks […]

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Stocks plunge on fears of new Covid-19 variant

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism – sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It’s optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer. – Warren Buffett The […]

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S&P 500 posts gain on strong retail earnings, retail sales data

Bubbles are brutal…they force us to decide to either look like an idiot before the crash, or look like an idiot after it. – John Hussman, American economist and hedge fund manager The S&P 500 Index resumed its upward climb last week with modest gains and closed at an all-time high as retail sales data […]

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Stock market’s winning streak ends as inflation surges

I can’t recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes’ annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you’d think somebody would have made billions by doing it. – Peter Lynch All good things eventually come to an end and last […]

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Strong earnings and jobs data lift major stock averages to record highs

The one reality that you can never change is that a higher-priced asset will produce a lower return than a lower-priced asset. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too. You can enjoy it now, or you can enjoy it steadily in the distant future, but not both – and the price we pay […]

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Major stock averages all at record highs as earnings impress

If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings (assuming the company in question has earnings). I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow or next week is only a distraction. – Peter Lynch For […]

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