I don’t like to talk about weather all the time. It seems like people who do that just can’t come up with anything to say. But I have to go there today. It been stupid cold here. And we have a ton of snow. And wind. This is how I…
Roseanne Roseannadanna used to remind us “Well Jane, it goes to show you, it’s always something. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another.” This week it was another thing. The bull market was placed on the back burner by analysts. It remains to see if these market seers declare the…
It’s the Broncos vs. the Seahawks. The hero (Payton) vs. the villain (Sherman – thanks to his post game rant). Immediately after the teams were determined the line went up with Broncos getting 2.5 points. That went away in about 1 minute and now it flipped and the Broncos are…
It was very quiet last week. Three of the five indexes I watch showed single digit moves – real moves not percentage moves. Each of the indexes moved less than 1.0%. The average move across the five indexes – DJIA, SPX, NDX, RUT, and OEX – was less than 0.30%. …
Big weekend for the football fan coming up. Being from Chicago I have no skin in any of the games however Jim Harbough, the coach of the 49ers was at one time the quarterback for the Bears. I’ll be zeroing in on the Broncos/Pats game. Manning and Brady have the…
The first full trading week of 2014 echoed our weather in Chicago – the markets were frozen in a tight trading range. The Dow Jones Industrials (DJIA) was down marginally, with the rest of the indexes finishing marginally to the upside. We seem to be entering the trading twilight zone…
I’m officially sick of winter. I’ll be willing to bet I am not alone here. Unless you live in the tropics or the 2 square blocks in the southern tip of Florida that wasn’t affected by the “Polar Vortex”, you are probably sick of it too. This week my neighborhood…
The US equity markets shrugged off a wide range of challenges in 2013. These challenges included the debt ceiling, sequester, the fiscal cliff, potential government shutdown, Cyprus debt crisis, Italian elections, Syrian civil war and chemical weapons, Iranian nuclear weapons and an Egyptian coup d’état. Market prognosticators pointed to each…
Let me start off the new year with just a bit of gloating. Yesterday my beloved Michigan State Spartans put it to Stanford and took home the 100th Rose Bowl. I don’t think we are anybody’s “little brother” anymore. To the fellow Spartan fans let enjoy this and look forward…
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