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Stocks rally after Bank of Japan cuts interest rates

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor – patience, discipline and risk-aversion – may well be genetically determined. – Seth Klarman, American billionaire who founded one of the world’s largest hedge funds After languishing in the red for most of the week, the […]

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Stocks close higher as oil prices rebound

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ. – Warren Buffett If you like the thrill, excitement and terrifying ups and downs of a roller coaster ride, then the action in the stock market last week […]

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Stocks tumble on falling oil prices & Fed rate hike fears

Money has never made man happy, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. – Benjamin Franklin In the aftermath of OPEC’s decision not to reduce oil production, the price of oil plunged last week to below $36 a barrel and […]

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Volatile week ends with S&P 500 virtually unchanged

In the long run, it’s not just how much money you make that will determine your prosperity. It’s how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it. – Peter Lynch The S&P 500 Index ended the week virtually unchanged but that does not tell the whole story as stocks […]

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Mixed economic data leaves S&P 500 flat

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless. – Warren Buffett In a holiday-shortened week characterized by light trading and an absence of any significant market-moving economic data, the S&P 500 Index closed basically flat and has risen less than 1% for the month of November. For the most part, the economic […]

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Stocks rebound on FOMC minutes, strong retail earnings

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. – Seth Klarman, American billionaire who founded one of the world’s largest hedge funds The major stock averages rebounded strongly last week to recover most of what they had lost the previous week as investors embraced an all but certain […]

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Global central bank policies propel stocks higher

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. – Benjamin Graham The S&P 500 Index extended its winning streak to four straight weeks as third quarter corporate earnings reports continued to surprise to the upside and global central banks remained accommodative with easy […]

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Anxiety over Greece sinks stocks

There’s always been the position that the small investor has no chance against the big institutions. – Peter Lynch After falling about 2% on Monday on fears of a Greek default, both the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average recouped some of their losses and finished the week lower by about 1%. […]

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Stocks fall on weak 1st quarter GDP report

People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise, they’ll stop investing. – Steve Jobs The stock market fell victim to another case of acrophobia last week as a surprisingly weak first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) report spooked investors and stocks tumbled from their […]

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Stocks fall, S&P 500 flat for year on weak economic data

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. – Warren Buffett The stock market reversed course last week and relinquished most of the gains from the previous week as economic data proved to be weaker than expected. With first quarter corporate earnings due to […]

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