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S&P 500 posts small gain as focus turns to Fed

Don’t invest in anything that you don’t understand. Do your research first. – Paul Clitheroe In a rather quiet week characterized by low volatility, a lack of potential market-moving economic data and earnings reports dominated by retailers, the major averages closed basically flat ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. After setting new all-time highs […]

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Despite soft economic data, S&P 500 closes at record high

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do […]

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April jobs report lifts stocks, S&P 500 again near all-time high

To minimize risk and get the lifestyle you want by utilizing a car means purchasing and maintaining a safe car, using the seat belts and driving safely. To get the lifestyle benefits (more money) from investing in growth assets, such as shares and property, time is the equivalent of a safety belt. – Paul Clitheroe […]

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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 soar as quarterly earnings reports better than feared

I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one or two of them go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that’s the promise to some people. – Peter Lynch Led by the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite Index, […]

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Stocks near record highs as Fed rate hike likely delayed

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. – Benjamin Graham For the second consecutive week, the major stock averages closed higher with the Dow Jones Industrial Average once again above the 18,000 level and the S&P 500 Index just barely above 2,100. Both benchmarks were up almost 2% […]

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S&P 500 Index edges higher on mixed economic data

Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them. – Jim Cramer In a holiday-shortened week, the stock market closed slightly higher as economic data provided mixed signals on the whether or not […]

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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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Stocks rally on dovish Federal Reserve comments

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. – Peter Lynch Dovish comments from the Federal Reserve last week led to a surge in stock prices as the S&P 500 Index rallied over 2% to close just below its previous all-time high. The most anticipated news event of the […]

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Stocks drop on rate hike fears, strong dollar, weak oil prices

I rarely think the market is right. I believe non-dividend stocks aren’t much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it. – Mark Cuban, American businessman, investor and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks The major stock averages posted modest losses last week as lower oil prices, […]

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