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Stocks weaker as volatility spikes and uncertainty lingers

It is fortunate for Wall Street as an institution that a small minority of people can trade successfully and that many others think they can. – Benjamin Graham Although the S&P 500 Index ended the week with only modest losses, volatility returned with a vengeance as investors were taken on a roller coaster ride of […]

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Stocks end year with losses on light trading volume

Investing is laying out money today to receive more money tomorrow. – Warren Buffett After closing at a record high on Monday, stocks suffered a three day losing streak in the holiday-shortened week as trading volumes were light and economic data was sparse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index succumbed to […]

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Stocks surge on dovish Fed statement

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well. – Warren Buffett After tumbling by 3.5% the previous week, the S&P 500 Index came roaring back last week and recouped almost all that it […]

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Plunging oil prices rattle the stock market

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed. It isn’t the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stock-picker. – Peter Lynch After seven consecutive weeks of stock market gains, the major averages were overdue […]

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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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Lower oil prices, retail sales data lift S&P 500 to new high

My favorite time frame is forever. – Warren Buffett In what could be described as a slow news week without any potential market-moving data, the major stock averages posted modest gains on their way to new all-time highs. With the third quarter earnings season winding down and a shortage of economic data, the S&P 500 […]

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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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