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May 2014
May 30, 2014 05:10 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Before diving into this week’s review, I want to remind active members of Retirement Watch that they can set the privacy preferences for the email addresses. From time to time I send out emails on behalf of third parties, such as other newsletter publishers. […]
April 2014
April 25, 2014 04:10 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There were two major data releases this week. One was Caterpillar’s earnings report and accompanying commentary. The other was related to housing. We’ll discuss housing in the data section below. Caterpillar’s report was a good news/bad news event. The good news was several fold. […]
February 2014
February 28, 2014 04:15 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review New Fed Chairman Janet Yellen this week said things a number of investors apparently wanted to hear. Her words shouldn’t have surprised or made a difference to anyone who pays attention, but they apparently did. Yellen said that it is too early to tell […]
January 2014
January 31, 2014 06:00 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I’m heading home from the large gathering at the Orlando World MoneyShow, which wrapped up today. If you missed the show, parts of it still are available free at the internet eShow version. For details, click here. A number of investors were shocked the […]
December 2013
December 20, 2013 04:50 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review We’ll be on a reduced schedule the next couple of weeks. I won’t send a letter next Friday, December 27, and probably won’t send one on January 3, 2014. I hope everyone has a good holiday season. I look forward to meeting you at […]
September 2013
September 27, 2013 06:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review You can look for interest rates to decline in coming months. Most investors and analyst concluded from the Fed’s taper talk in May and June that interest rates were on an endless upward rise. Markets pushed rates substantially higher. The Fed didn’t have to […]
August 2013
August 30, 2013 05:15 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review The week started with the big news being about potential military action against Syria. The increased potential for an action moved markets. But as the week went on, the data started to move markets. The most recent data is weaker than the lagging data, […]
July 2013
July 26, 2013 05:45 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review This was a quiet week in the markets and the economy. All markets traded in fairly narrow ranges but trended towards negative territory. Next week will be a big week for data, with the employment situations reports coming on Friday along with personal income […]
