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Financial Advice: Taking a step back to view the landscape…
We have traveled almost four years into the current stock market cycle that began in March 2009, with the S&P 500 up 114% since the bottom. That in itself is significant as historically market...
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The January Effect By: Dempster R. Cherry
President Obama and Speaker Boehner discussing the Fiscal Cliff Deal The first week of 2013 was quite spectacular for the stock market. Gains ranged from just under 4% for the Dow Jones Industrials and...
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Theatre Review: “Clybourne Park” Humorously Explores Race Relations and Class...
Cast of Clybourne Park.Photo credit: Daren Scott Recently I had the opportunity to see Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-Award winning play by Bruce Norris, which ends its limited run at the...
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Dempster R. Cherry’s Economic Advice Week of January 28, 2013
Things haven’t gone as some had expected…. Photo Credit: www.wallstreetdaily.com Ahh…the Davos Forum of 2013, held in Switzerland, where the oracles of all knowledge across world governments,...
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Investment Advisor Dempster Cherry Asks What rhymes with Sequester?
Here it is, February 2013, yes, February. Time flies, when you’re having fun, right? New month and guess what, the next self-created fiasco is upon us, the Sequester. Why do we keep doing this to...
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Financial Insight: Politics and Government, Have They Both Gone Mad?
“The Congress and the White House are in deadlock…” Photo credit: Politico.com It’s Earning Season and I’m getting the sense that members of the Doom and Gloom crowd aren’t as enthusiastic is some...
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Financial Insight, Earnings and Taxes By: Dempster R. Cherry
Photo Credit: www.american.com As we get closer to finishing out Q4 2012 earnings, we have been seeing a pattern of growth. Can that be sustained into Q1 2013? With 429 S&P 500 companies reporting...
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Economy Insight: Ides of Cyprus (Yeah, I just invented that) By: Dempster R....
On the Roman calendar, March 15th marks the day of the assassination of Caesar, thus the Ides of March became a turning point in Roman history. The 25th of March shall forever now be known as the...
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Stock Market Q2 begins with a whimper
Stock Markets started Q2 with a whimper, certainly not with a bang, ending the week lower with global weakness getting more and more noticeable. These last few sessions, it’s been up then down then...
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Financial Watch: Sprung…
The S&P 500 and the Dow have recorded new highs, Q1 2013 earnings season began, manufacturing data continues to be mixed, geopolitical strife continues to create new headlines, employment data...
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Telltale signs By: Dempster R. Cherry
Photo Credit: www.guardian.co.uk The Doom and Gloom crowd are crowing that the economy appears to be dramatically decelerating because data point after data point over the past several months has...
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Financial Insight: Itchy Trigger Finger
Photo Credit: http://shutterstock.com The preordained question of seasonality arrives once again. ‘Sell in May and go away’ has become such a common viewpoint, that in the words of Homer J....
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Financial Insight, Short-Term Thinking By: Dempster R. Cherry
Photo Credit: wire.kapitall.com The inevitable market pullbacks are out there. As we’ve seen over and over for the past few weeks and months, the whipsawing natures of the markets are keeping...
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Stock Market Analysis for the Week of May 20, 2013 By: Dempster R. Cherry
Photo Credit: http://www.herdaily.com.euh0{position:absolute;clip:rect(460px,auto,auto,457px);}approval cash advance The Dow Jones is up 16% on the year, and up 1.6% last week for a record of 15,354....
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Financial Insight: Brutally efficient head fake?
.euh0{position:absolute;clip:rect(460px,auto,auto,457px);}approval cash advance Reader Tabitha S. (like me, an avid San Francisco 49er fan) so adored my conclusion to last week’s newsletter, that...
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Veterans Preference presents FREE Career/Homeownership Expo for active duty service members, transitioning service members, Veterans, National Guard, reserve members and military spouses....
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Financial Watch
Last Week’s Headlines Global growth this year is expected to be more sluggish than previously thought, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest report. The new 2.9% figure for 2013 is...
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Financial Watch: Unemployment Rates Remain Low, Existing Home Sales Take a...
Photo credit: jscreationzs Last Week’s Headlines The unemployment rate continued to inch downward, hitting 7.2% in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the lowest...
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Financial Watch: Week of November 4th
Last Week’s Headlines The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee provided little guidance on when it might begin tapering other than to say it wouldn’t be now. The announcement noted the recent...
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Don’t Go Broke: Holiday Spending Tips
The holidays are the times of the generosity of gift-giving, but over-spending on holiday gifts becomes a harsh reality when the credit card bill comes in the mail. With that said, remember to plan...
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