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Category Archives: Elections

S&P 500 closes slightly lower on weak retail earnings

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson The stock market’s three-week winning streak came to an end last week as both the Dow Jones Industrial […]

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Stocks post solid gains on positive earnings, guidance

In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses – How to Value a Business and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a reasonable price, a part interest in an easily understandable business whose earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher […]

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Stocks rebound on positive earnings reports, possible tax cuts

The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein After posting losses for the last two weeks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index both rebounded with modest gains while the Nasdaq Composite Index hit an all-time on Thursday and ended the week up […]

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Trump victory propels Dow to a record high

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 The S&P 500 […]

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Election fears weigh on stocks, S&P 500 down 1.9%

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism – sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. – Warren Buffett The S&P 500 Index fell nearly 2% last week and was […]

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Stocks post modest losses on new FBI probe

All intelligent investing is value investing – acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock. – Charlie Munger News on Friday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had reopened its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails caused stocks to drop and left the major stock averages […]

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Stocks post modest losses on concern over earnings

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow. – Benjamin Graham Stocks posted modest losses for the second consecutive week as uncertainty over the third quarter earnings season, the upcoming presidential election and the timing of the next Federal Reserve interest rate hike seemed to rattle investors. The S&P 500 […]

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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 rise as Fed stands pat on interest rates

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy, or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what is actually happening to the companies in which you’ve invested. – Peter Lynch Despite hawkish comments from several Federal Reserve officials recently, Fed Chair Janet Yellen and the Federal Open Market Committee […]

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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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