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Stocks close modestly lower to end a dismal year

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages. – Warren Buffett Although the official Santa Claus rally period doesn’t officially end until after the first two trading days of the new year, it looks like the Grinch may instead steal any happiness that investors may have enjoyed in an […]

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Stocks decline as hawkish Fed comments outweigh positive CPI data

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time. – Jessie Livermore, was an American stock trader What began as a positive week for the major stock averages after a favorable piece of inflation data abruptly turned negative on Wednesday following the Federal Open Market […]

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Strong retail earnings, Fed minutes propel stocks higher

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   In the holiday-shortened week characterized by thin trading volume, the major stock averages all posted gains with the Dow Jones Industrial Average leading the way with a gain […]

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Hawkish comments by Fed Chairman Powell sink stocks

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. – William Feather, was an American publisher and author As expected, the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds interest rate by 0.75 of a percentage point last week, but it was […]

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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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Stocks surge on better-than-expected earnings, lower Treasury yields

Another lesson I learned is that there is nothing new on Wall Street. There can’t be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again. – Jesse Livermore, was an American stock trader If there is anything certain about the stock and […]

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Strong stock market rally fades, but stocks still positive for the week

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass. – John Bogle  After the S&P 500 Index fell more than 9% in September and over 5% in […]

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Major stock averages hit new lows as inflation data remains high

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.  – Warren Buffett  The major stock averages continued their downward trend last week and closed on […]

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Stocks tumble on higher than expected consumer price data

In Wall Street, the only thing that’s hard to explain is next week. – Louis Rukeyser  Heading into last week, expectations were high that the inflation data would be favorable and that prices had peaked and were beginning to decline. Those hopes were dashed on Tuesday, however, when the August core consumer price index (CPI) […]

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Stocks rally despite hawkish comments from the Fed

Don’t think that you know more than the market. No one does. And don’t act on insights that you think are your own but are usually shared by millions of others. – John Bogle  After falling for three consecutive weeks, all the major stock averages rebounded last week to post solid gains, ranging from 2.7% […]

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