Read our current weekly market commentary

Click here!

Close Icon
   
Contact Info     630-325-7100
15 Spinning Wheel Dr.
Suite 226
Hinsdale, IL 60521
Toll Free 888-325-7180

Category Archives: The Market

Stocks decline on Portuguese bank fears

  And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets. – Martin Feldstein, American economist   The stock market succumbed to a fear of heights last week as investors took profits after a report surfaced that a relatively small […]

Take a Tour 

Strong jobs report lifts stocks to record highs

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past. – Timothy Geithner A stronger than expected jobs report for June propelled the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 17,000 for […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks post modest losses on Fed official remarks

We’ve used derivatives for many, many years. I don’t think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. …So we use lots of things that are dangerous, but we generally pay some attention to how they’re used. We tell the cars how fast they can go. – Warren Buffett News that the U.S. […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks at all-time highs on Fed comments

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily. – Ben Bernanke The stock market resumed its record-setting ways last week as both the Dow Jones […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks decline on Iraq fears, higher oil prices

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday. – Larry Summers, American economist The stock market suffered its first weekly loss in four weeks and although a number of reasons were cited for the decline, stocks were due for a breather after spending a month in rarefied air. After a slow […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks at all-time highs on positive economic data

People don’t like the idea of thinking long-term. Many are desperately seeking short-term answers because they have money problems to be solved today. – Robert Kiyosaki, American investor, businessman and self-help finance author Mostly positive economic data released last week provided the catalyst for stocks as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P […]

Take a Tour 

Stocks at record highs as Treasury yields fall

If all economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright In a holiday-shortened week that was characterized by low trading volume, stocks continued their ascent with additional gains as the major broad-market indexes hit record highs. This good news occurred despite the fact that revised first […]

Take a Tour 

S&P 500 Index ends week above 1900

  Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. – Donald Trump Better than […]

Take a Tour 

Mixed economic data leaves stocks flat

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. – Sir John Templeton After climbing to within three points of 1,900 and an all-time high earlier in the week, the S&P 500 succumbed to a fear of heights and profit taking on Thursday and ended the week exactly […]

Take a Tour 

DJIA ends week at record high but Nasdaq declines

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said. – Alan Greenspan, American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 The stock market finally ended its string of losing Fridays with a gain as the Dow Jones Industrial […]

Take a Tour 

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Meta

Our Philosophy

Do for others what we would do for ourselves under similar circumstances, knowing what we know.

Archive

Categories

Search Site

Copyright 2023, Hinsdale Associates Inc.

Topscroll Icon