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Category Archives: Corporate Earnings

Stocks edge lower on interest rate fears

The average person is 95 percent eyes and only 5 percent mind when they invest. If you want to become a professional, you need to train your eyes to be only 5 percent and train your mind to see the other 95 percent. – Robert Kiyosaki All three of the major stock averages edged slightly […]

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Stocks edge higher on optimism over Deutsche Bank

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices. – James Grant The stock market was taken on a roller coaster ride last week and when the ride stopped on Friday, the S&P 500 Index had managed to eke out […]

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Stocks post modest losses on Fed rate hike fears

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. – Warren Buffett Economic data and quarterly corporate earnings reports took a back seat last week to the speech on Friday by Fed Chair Janet Yellen at the Federal Reserve’s annual conference in […]

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Stock averages close flat in listless summer trading

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him. – Benjamin Graham After rising to all-time highs on Monday, the major stock averages fell back slightly and ended the week virtually flat as volume continued to remain relatively low. Lack […]

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Stocks edge higher but July retail sales disappoint

The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. – Peter Lynch The dog days of summer have set in and the major stock averages reflected the August doldrums last week as trading volume was light and stocks were little changed. Although stocks edged slightly higher for the week, […]

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S&P 500, Nasdaq at record highs on strong jobs data

Your success in investing will depend, in part, on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike, that this too shall pass. – John Bogle Both the S&P 500 Index and the Nasdaq Composite Index closed at record highs on […]

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Nasdaq jumps over 1% on strong technology earnings

The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself…The more you learn, the more you’ll earn. – Warren Buffett The S&P 500 Index had its weekly winning streak snapped at four as it closed slightly lower on weak trading volume but remains within two points of its all-time high. The best performing stock […]

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Stocks edge higher on earnings, manufacturing data

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them. – Peter Lynch For the fourth consecutive week, the S&P 500 Index posted a gain and in the process set a new record closing high of 2,175 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average […]

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S&P 500 hits an all-time high on earnings, economic data

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks. – Benjamin Graham Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index hit all-time highs last week, making the lows reached four days after the Brexit vote seem like a distant memory. Since […]

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S&P 500 near all-time high on strong jobs data for June

I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong in 24 hours. – Louis Rukeyser Worries that the weak May employment report could be an ominous sign of a slowing U.S. economy were eliminated on Friday as the June jobs report far exceeded everybody’s expectations. As a result, the S&P 500 Index soared over […]

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