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Stocks retreat on China data, Ukraine tensions

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford After reaching record high levels the previous week, the broad-based S&P 500 Index pulled back last week despite better than expected retail sales and a drop in jobless claims. In a difficult […]

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Jobs report sends S&P 500 to record high

Do not buy the hype from Wall Street and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better. – Jim Rogers Records are made to be broken and after breaking through technical resistance at the 1,850 level on the S&P 500 Index, this broad-based […]

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Stocks surge on earnings, Yellen comments

I don’t think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockefeller Despite weak economic data last week, the stock market posted its second consecutive weekly gain and has now recovered almost all that it had lost […]

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Weak growth in China sinks stocks

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I’ve bought stocks at $12 that went to $2 but then, they later go to $30. You just don’t know when you can find the bottom. – Peter Lynch, American businessman and stock investor, research consultant at Fidelity Investments and former manager of […]

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Market little changed after earnings

Most people give up just when they are about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one-foot from the winning touchdown. – Henry Ross Perot, American businessman and real estate developer In a fairly volatile week that saw the S&P 500 Index reach […]

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December employment report disappoints investors

The markets generally are unpredictable, so that one has to have different scenarios. The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. – George Soros, American business magnate, investor and philanthropist In a surprise announcement that caught most market observers and investors off guard, the […]

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Fed postpones taper, stocks applaud news

  Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee’s worth of prosperity. – Louis Rukeyser, Nov. 1996                                                                                                                       In […]

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Stocks resilient as they climb a wall of worry

The investment business is, by definition, a business of hope. Everyone hopes that he can beat the market, even if few people actually can. – Avi Nachmany     With news that a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Syria would be possible and that military conflict would probably be avoided, a sense of calm returned to […]

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Stocks close higher on favorable economic data

I own last year’s top performing funds. Unfortunately, I bought them this year. – Anonymous Maybe the month of September isn’t so scary after all. Since 1950, the worst month of the year for stock performance has been September, with an average negative total return. Although we have a long way to go before the […]

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Earnings will hold the key for stocks

We have two classes of forecasters: those who don’t know – and those who don’t know they don’t know. -John Kenneth Galbraith After the stronger than expected jobs report on Friday and ahead of the much anticipated earnings season beginning on Monday, many market pundits and economists have begun to forecast those earnings as well […]

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