Make It a Double

Make It a Double

  Well, that was fast. On Monday, the S&P 500 stock index officially doubled in price from the pandemic low it touched on March 23, 2020. It took stocks only 354 trading days to get there, making it the fastest bull market doubling from a bottom in the...
The Risk Switch

The Risk Switch

  Risk is like a switch. Or, at least in the investment world, it can be helpful to think of risk as sort of like a dimmer switch. It slides between the “On” and “Off” positions depending on the investment setting and how much risk tolerance is out there. When...
Liquidity

Liquidity

Financial markets are now more than a year into the recovery from the pandemic-induced panic last spring. James Nelson joins Local 4 News to discuss the point when we can consider things to be back to normal.

A Few Observations

A Few Observations

OVERVIEW   U.S. stocks were mixed last week, with the S&P 500 rising 0.71%, the Dow gaining 0.87%, and the Nasdaq losing 0.09%. Small-cap stocks lagged the broader market, falling 0.47%. Growth stocks also underperformed, gaining just 0.04%. Value stocks,...