Weekly TGIF

This was another record week. Stocks had one of the best weeks in history. The Stock Market saw the best three-day bounce since the Great Depression. Of course, it followed one of the worst. That's…

When the lights go down in the city. And the sun shines on the Bay. Those are the opening lyrics for the song "Lights" by the legendary Bay Area band Journey. I'm pretty sure they…

We are going to remember this week for a while. We're going to remember it for a number of reasons. We are going to remember it for the Coronavirus. We're going to remember it for…

Market volatility is back, big time. The S&P has experienced six 3% daily moves, both up and down, in the last two weeks. This type of price action had not occurred in the previous 24…

There is no sugar coating. This was a bad week for stock investors, whereas bond investors had one of the better weeks in history. It set all kinds of records for bad. It was the…

Fear is back in the Market, triggered again by the coronavirus spread. The media will certainly cite this explanation over the weekend. However, a sell-off was way, way overdue after an almost reckless rally the…

The President of the United States is generally considered the most powerful person on the planet. It's been so since World War II. These days, the American Presidency gets more publicity than pretty much anything…

I find myself writing to you for the second consecutive Friday that brought sharp declines for stocks. These Friday declines bookended a massive rally, which sent the S&P 500 to fresh, all-time highs. It hasn't…

A volatile week on Wall Street saw the Dow and S&P record their second consecutive weekly declines and erased all of the new year's gains as January comes to an end. Stocks closed at the…

Plant-based meat has been all the rage of late, with Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger hitting the fast food circuit. It's not just vegetarians eating them either. Veggie burgers are not new, they've been…

"Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are needed most." - Benjamin Graham For those who have not heard of Benjamin Graham (1894-1976), he has…

If there was any question whether 2020 was going to be an eventful year, it got answered in its first week. Tensions with Iran reached a fever pitch, having both nations seemingly on the brink…