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Investment Insights: ‘Just below’

Category: Your Wealth | Published: 11/29/18 | Print

Category: Your Wealth
Published: 11/29/18

Posted by Wade Balliet

Investment Strategy

Diagonal upward view of Federal Reserve building

Jerome Powell’s lunch presentation and speech Wednesday held those two small but significant words, “just below.”

Tags: bond market, economy, equities, Federal Reserve, interest rates, Jerome Powell, stock market, Wade Balliet

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Investment Insights: The gravy train stops

Category: Your Wealth | Published: 11/21/18 | Print

Category: Your Wealth
Published: 11/21/18

Posted by Wade Balliet

Investment Strategy

Young female broker looking serious on the phone, surrounded by several monitors showing stock market returns.

The same stocks which were the darlings for so much of this historic rally have faltered.

Tags: Amazon, Apple, corporate earnings, economy, equities, Facebook, Federal Reserve, Google, interest rates, Netflix, stock market, Thanksgiving, Wade Balliet

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Investment Insights: Fret or fundamentals?

Category: Your Wealth | Published: 11/15/18 | Print

Category: Your Wealth
Published: 11/15/18

Posted by Wade Balliet

Investment Strategy

Photo of oil tanker and rig with stock market figures lightly superimposed over it.

Many investors are worried that the precipitous slide in crude oil prices signals a possible slowdown on a global scale.

Tags: China, economy, equities, oil, oil prices, stock market, tariffs, trade

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Investment Insights: Midterms and the markets

Category: Your Wealth | Published: 11/07/18 | Print

Category: Your Wealth
Published: 11/07/18

Posted by Wade Balliet

Investment Strategy

Closeup on a 2018 red-white-and-blue button in a pile of similar patriotic election buttons.

The market reaction has been fairly positive so far, but investors may be a little more wary over domestic affairs, at least for the next few years.

Tags: Brexit, China, Congress, elections, equities, geopolitics, House of Representatives, midterms, politics, Senate, stock market, trade, Wade Balliet

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