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Investment Insights: Investor anxiety refocuses on rates

Category: Your Wealth | Published: 04/25/18 | Print

Category: Your Wealth
Published: 04/25/18

Investment Strategy

Geopolitical risk seems to be subsiding, at least temporarily, but it may be yet another upward pressure on rates.

Tags: bond market, bonds, China, equities, interest rates, investing, North Korea, stock market, Treasury, Wade Balliet

Category: Your Wealth | Published: 04/19/18 | Print

Category: Your Wealth
Published: 04/19/18

Wealth Management Strategy

It is a 24/7 job, having to worry constantly about the smooth running of the company and the well-being of employees in order to retain them.

Tags: biotech, CEO, crystals, Gisele Maxwell, Kristin Nelson, manufacturing, retaining talent, San Francisco, Shasta Crystals, women entrepreneurs

Category: Your Wealth | Published: 04/18/18 | Print

Category: Your Wealth
Published: 04/18/18

Investment Strategy

Volatility, the word that strikes fear into the minds of nervous investors, returned in the first quarter of 2018.

Tags: bonds, China, commodity prices, equities, exports, Federal Reserve, imports, interest rates, investing, Jerome Powell, market volatility, steel, tariffs, trade war, Wade Balliet, wealth management

Category: Your Wealth | Published: 04/12/18 | Print

Category: Your Wealth
Published: 04/12/18

Investment Strategy

Even without Wednesday’s market moves, equity markets have been a roller coaster over the last several weeks.

Tags: bonds, China, economy, equities, geopolitics, market volatility, President Trump, tariffs, trade, Wade Balliet