Read our current weekly market commentary

Click here!

Close Icon
   
Contact Info     630-325-7100
15 Spinning Wheel Dr.
Suite 226
Hinsdale, IL 60521
Toll Free 888-325-7180

Category Archives: Federal Reserve

Stocks at all-time highs on positive economic data

People don’t like the idea of thinking long-term. Many are desperately seeking short-term answers because they have money problems to be solved today. – Robert Kiyosaki, American investor, businessman and self-help finance author Mostly positive economic data released last week provided the catalyst for stocks as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P […]

Take a Tour 

S&P 500 Index ends week above 1900

  Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. – Donald Trump Better than […]

Take a Tour 

DJIA ends week at record high but Nasdaq declines

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said. – Alan Greenspan, American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 The stock market finally ended its string of losing Fridays with a gain as the Dow Jones Industrial […]

Take a Tour 

Stock market posts modest gains as Ukraine worries persist

If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today. Provided I’d started with a hundred million dollars. – Jon Stewart In a pattern that is becoming all too familiar, the stock market failed to build on its momentum and closed lower in its final session on Friday but managed to record a […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks edge lower on rising Ukraine tensions

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. – John Maynard Keynes What looked like a positive week for the stock market came to screeching halt on Friday as the major averages all suffered steep losses. Stocks were poised to finish higher for the second consecutive week but rising tensions between the Ukrainian […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks rebound on economic data, earnings

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether. – Peter Lynch All of the major stock averages rallied more than 2% last week as economic data continued to show signs […]

Take a Tour 

Momentum stocks lead market sell-off

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. – Warren Buffett Continued weakness in so-called momentum stocks in sectors such as technology, the Internet, social media and biotechnology spread to the broad market last week as all the major averages fell by more than 2%. There was really no place to hide as earnings […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks advance on better jobs report

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin Despite a huge sell-off in stocks on Friday that saw the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite Index lose more than 2.5% and the S&P 500 Index drop more than 1%, stocks generally were able to close higher for the week. In a pattern recently that has […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks higher despite Yellen’s remarks

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game, – Robert Kiyosaki, American investor and self-help author, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the best-selling personal finance book of all time In her first Federal Open Market […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks gain on Yellen remarks, S&P 500 at all-time high

I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock and there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies. – Peter Lynch After knocking on the door for several weeks, the S&P 500 Index finally broke […]

Take a Tour 

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Meta

Our Philosophy

Do for others what we would do for ourselves under similar circumstances, knowing what we know.

Archive

Categories

Search Site

Copyright 2023, Hinsdale Associates Inc.

Topscroll Icon