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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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S&P 500 closes modestly lower on hawkish comments by Fed officials

Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It’s suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not. – Martin Zweig, was an American stock investor, investment adviser and financial analyst   […]

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Stocks soar on better-than-expected inflation data, S&P 500 up 5.9%

In investing, you get what you don’t pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, and they will stay the course. And they won’t be foolish to think that they can consistently outsmart the market. – John Bogle The biggest rallies in […]

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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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S&P 500 drops on hotter than expected inflation data

Above all else, in other words, the stock market is people. It is people trying to read the future. And it is this intensely human quality that makes the stock market so dramatic an arena, in which men and women pit their conflicting judgements, their hopes and fears, strengths and weaknesses, greeds and ideals. – […]

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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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Major stock averages tumble as Fed raises rates again

It’s the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There’s no system to avoid bad markets. You can’t do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go. – Charlie […]

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