Perspectives

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World headlines continue to be mostly negative and rotate between the crisis in Europe, the economic slowdown in China, the ongoing unrest in the Middle East, and the upcoming U.S. election and [...]

Investors are no doubt weary of hearing about all of the geo-political and economic risks in the world. The last five years have been exhausting, filled with unprecedented volatility, global [...]

Investors had reasons to celebrate by the end of 2012.  Despite somewhat tepid economic growth of only 2% during the first three quarters of 2012, which slowed into the 4th quarter, the S&P [...]

The S&P 500 was up nearly 11% in the first quarter of 2013 even while the looming sequestration threatened to shave up to 0.5% off GDP, North Korea threatened war, the situation in Cyprus [...]

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden While the severe winter weather may seem a distant memory in the midst of the current summer heat, its impact was more [...]

After a steady rise for much of 2013, market volatility picked up significantly in June, with broad weakness across most major market indices.  Through Monday, the S&P 500 declined 3.4% [...]