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Category Archives: Corporate Earnings

Mixed economic data weighs on stocks

My two rules of investing: Rule one – never lose money. Rule two – never forget rule one. – Warren Buffett In a holiday-shortened week that was marked by mixed economic data, both the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down slightly, ending a two-week winning streak. The previous week was […]

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Stocks climb on weak jobs report

  Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy. Profit from folly rather than participate in it. – Warren Buffett   After a disappointing employment report in December, a bigger than expected decline in durable goods orders for December and a weak ISM manufacturing index to start the week, investors were beginning […]

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Emerging market fears grip market

Buy when everyone is selling and hold when everyone else is buying. This is not merely a catchy slogan. It is the very essence of successful investments. – J. Paul Getty, Anglo-American industrialist who founded Getty Oil Company, named by Fortune magazine as the richest living American in 1957 Not since May 2012 has the […]

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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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Earnings propel the stock market higher

Even if you identify the managers who have good past performance, there’s no guarantee that they’ll have good future performance. – George Sauter, Vanguard Group Stocks continued their winning ways last week as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index posted modest gains. Although there was a full plate of economic […]

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Strong corporate earnings lead to gains

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. – Warren Buffett   With the drama in Washington now in the rear view mirror, investors turned their attention last week to corporate earnings and economic data and apparently liked what they […]

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Stalemate in Washington

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Paul Samuelson   Although there was still no agreement by week’s end on either the budget or the debt ceiling, markets behaved like a deal had been reached as the S&P […]

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Stocks strong on earnings and economic data

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the passive. – Warren Buffett After a week when the economic data could best be described as lackluster and the statement from the Federal Reserve was more of the same, the […]

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Federal Reserve rescues stocks

Investors attribute successes to their own brilliance, and they attribute failures to bad luck. If you keep doing that, at the end of the day you think you’re a genius. – Nicholas Barberis Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke rode to the rescue of the stock market last week with his announcement that the Fed would […]

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