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Stocks post modest gains despite geopolitical concerns

  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 Geopolitical news dominated the headlines last week and when the markets finally closed on Friday, both the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average managed […]

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Stocks post modest losses as 10-year Treasury yield rises to 3.07%

If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%. – Warren Buffett In a relatively quiet and uneventful week, stocks gave back some of the solid gains from the previous week as all three of the major stock averages posted modest losses. […]

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S&P 500 climbs 2.4% as investors downplay geopolitical risks

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. – Seth Klarman                                                   Stocks finally woke up from their […]

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Technology stocks shine but broad market lower in volatile week

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it. – Albert Einstein The stock market turned in another wild week of ups and downs but when the closing bell finally sounded on Friday, it had little to show for it. The Dow Jones Industrial […]

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Despite strong quarterly earnings, S&P 500 closes flat

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. – Warren Buffett Despite continued strong first quarter corporate earnings reports and positive economic data, the major stock averages were little changed last week. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite Index closed modestly lower while […]

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Stocks lose momentum but still manage to post modest gains for week

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy. Profit from folly rather than participate in it. – Warren Buffett What started as a promising week for the stock market ended with a fizzle as stocks sold off on Thursday and Friday and nearly wiped out the earlier gains. Strong earnings were the […]

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S&P 500 gains 2% in another volatile week

To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are euphorically buying takes the greatest courage, but provides the greatest profit. – John Templeton Stock market volatility continued again last week as nervous markets were taken on a roller coaster ride over geopolitical uncertainty with regard to Syria and trade war fears […]

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Stocks close lower on trade war fears, political turmoil

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow. – Benjamin Graham The stock market seems to be climbing a wall of worry and last week it suffered a mild setback as all of the major stock averages fell at least 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was the biggest loser […]

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Stocks surge on strong February jobs data

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, American investor and former manager of Vanguard’s Windsor Fund The stock market celebrated the ninth anniversary of the […]

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S&P 500 sheds 2% on interest rate fears, tariffs

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. – Warren Buffett Although the S&P 500 posted gains on Monday and Friday of last week, they weren’t sizable enough to overcome the losses suffered in the middle of the week and the benchmark index […]

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