This week I received some odd communications from mutual fund giant Vanguard Group. First, they sent a white paper titled, “Here today, gone tomorrow: The impact of economic surprises on asset returns.” As the title suggests, this paper examined the relationship between the economy and the stock [...]
Can an election impact your portfolio?
The past few weeks have been challenging for our country. We've seen some horrific terrorist attacks, and with mid-term elections right around the corner, polls indicate that the country is deeply divided. While the economy has been doing well, the stock market has started to wobble. October, in [...]
Another Rorschach test
As you may have seen, the stock market took investors on a wild ride this week. On Wednesday the Dow dropped more than 800 points, on Thursday it lost another 546 points and today it swung back and forth between positive and negative before closing about 1 percent higher. At times like this I'm [...]
A Rorschach test
The stock market this year reminds me of one of Rorschach's inkblot tests. Year-to-date, U.S. stocks have gained nearly 10 percent, but it's very difficult to know what to make of it. Bulls point to this year's tax cuts and believe that the market makes complete sense. Bears, on the other hand, [...]
Rosy statistics
In the mid-1990s Federal Express had a problem. Though the company's safety record was exemplary, regulators had proposed new rules that would have posed an operational nightmare for the giant shipper. The company flew Boeing 727 air freighters that each accommodated eight containers. Though they [...]
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