We are 16 months into the Fed’s rate raising cycle, and short-term interest rates have risen to over 5%, with another increase likely to come in the next few weeks. For the first time in many years, investors can receive a reasonable rate of interest on cash and treasury bills…
Although not on anyone’s list of top Oscar picks, the very lucrative “Fast and Furious” movie franchise is set for the release of the tenth (and supposedly final) installment in the series next month. Arguably not as exciting to watch as the dramatic car chases from the movies, the Federal…
Last year at this time we cautioned that the headwinds and the high valuations in the investment world caused us much concern. What we saw in the months to follow was a bona fide bear market in both stocks and bonds. The S&P 500 Index fell more than 19%, and…
After a spate of bad news in the last week of the quarter, the volatile financial markets ended with stock and bond indexes making new lows for the year. Stocks have recorded one of their worst starts to the year in history with the Dow Jones Industrial, the S&P 500,…