The Final Countdown Investors are approaching what has historically been one of the most predictable and positive periods of the year for the stock market. The so-called “Santa Claus Rally” isn’t just a catchy phrase—it’s a well-documented phenomenon that has generally delivered positive returns for patient investors in the past. The reasons behind the usual…Read more
Defying Gravity Gravity can be defined as a force that pulls two objects with mass toward each other, or more commonly, the force that makes things fall to the ground. Throughout the bull market of the past two years, there have been many forces that could have, and perhaps should have, acted as a gravitational…Read more
When investors talk about how the stock market is doing, they’re often referring to one of the benchmark stock indexes. You have probably heard of some of the most well-known ones, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which has been around since 1896, or the S&P 500, which is the broadest measure of the…Read more
