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Stocks post gains as Big Tech earnings better than expected

The one reality that you can never change is that a higher-priced asset will produce a lower return than a lower-priced asset. You can’t have your cake and eat it. You can enjoy it now, or you can enjoy it steadily in the distant future, but not both – and the price we pay for […]

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Stocks close higher despite Fed rate hike, bank turmoil

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mouse trap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be misconfigurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist. – Alan Greenspan  The Federal […]

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Banking crisis causes volatile week for markets, stocks end mixed

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility. – Benjamin Graham  After two bank failures the previous week, the U.S. banking system was in the spotlight again last week and was largely responsible for wild swings in […]

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Nasdaq surges after dovish remarks by Fed Chair Powell, S&P 500 up 1.6%

It’s not always easy to do what’s not popular, but that’s where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized. – John Neff Dovish remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell last week and a strong earnings report from Meta Platforms […]

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Stocks post mixed results as conflicting economic data clouds outlook

There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people. It is called the stock market. – Robert Wright, American journalist In a week that was filled with conflicting economic data, the major stock averages posted mixed results as trading volumes were light ahead of Christmas. […]

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Stocks drop as recession fears, Fed interest rate hikes grip the market

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. – John Bogle The stock market often rises and falls from week to week on nothing more than fear and greed and the past two weeks of market […]

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Big Tech earnings disappoint but stocks rally as bond yields and the dollar fall

The best way to measure investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go. – Benjamin Graham The spotlight was on Big Tech quarterly earnings last week and despite […]

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Major stock averages tumble as Fed raises rates again

It’s the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There’s no system to avoid bad markets. You can’t do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go. – Charlie […]

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S&P 500 falls for third straight week despite favorable jobs data

The secret recipe for success in the stock market is simple: 30% in market analysis skills, 30% in risk management, 30% in emotion control and 10% in luck. – Benjamin Lee  The stock market began the month of September on an inauspicious note after release of the August employment report and all three major stock […]

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Major stock averages rally on better than expected earnings

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action. – Kenneth Fisher  Mostly better than expected second quarter corporate earnings lifted the major stock averages […]

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