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Category Archives: Fixed Income

Weren’t we just talking about…

Value investing, the way I define it, is finding a good business run by smart people, at a reasonably good price relative to its values today and five or more years from now. Mario Gabelli   It seems just last week we were talking about the markets moving to the highest level since last October. […]

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Stocks close modestly lower as earnings mostly better than feared

Bankers are people who lend their umbrella in good weather, but who want to have it back as soon as it starts raining. – Mark Twain The first quarter earnings season was the primary focus for investors last week and the results were decidedly mixed, leading to only modest losses of less than a half […]

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Major stock averages close mixed as jobs-related data softens

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong. – Benjamin Graham  The major stock averages were mixed in the holiday-shortened week as investors digested a plethora of jobs-related data that appeared to show the economy is […]

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Stocks rally on improved bank sentiment, favorable inflation data

The courage to press on regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us, is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor. – John Bogle  After a slow start to the week, stocks found their footing and never looked back as the major stock averages […]

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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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Stocks tumble on hawkish Fed minutes, inflation data

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffett A hotter than expected inflation report and rising bond yields took their toll on the stock market last week as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell […]

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Hawkish Fed comments, lackluster earnings send stocks lower

 Price is a creature of the market’s mood. In booms, it is set by the greediest buyer; in busts by the most fearful seller. – Benjamin Graham After a strong start to the year for the major stock averages, investors took some profits last week after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gave some hawkish remarks […]

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Ahead of Fed meeting, stocks gain on favorable inflation data

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. It’s optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer. – Warren Buffett The […]

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Stocks rise as inflation data continues to improve

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stocks, not selling advice. – Norman Ralph Augustine Better than expected inflation data was just what the stock market needed last week and the major averages responded with gains across the board. The S&P 500 Index climbed nearly 3% while the Nasdaq Composite Index […]

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