Weighing the Week Ahead: Can Earnings Growth Justify Current Stock Prices?

We have an array of interesting data in the week ahead including inflation news, more employment numbers, and sentiment from consumers and small businesses. Most importantly we have the start of earnings season. Despite this, the political story will dominate, at least for a bit longer. While this is newsworthy, it is not the key […]

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Weighing the Week Ahead: Will Corporate Earnings Results Change the Message of the Markets?

It is a light economic calendar without any of the most important reports. The government shutdown will command increasing attention as long as it continues. Finally, there is some real competition in financial news – the start of earnings season. For weeks it has been a battle between economic data and stock prices, between economists […]

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Should Investors be Scared Witless?

Are you an investor or a trader? It is an important question I raise each week in my WTWA series. Investors need to evaluate fundamentals while traders try to guess the market. Which are you? A business report anchor led off his program tonight by saying that “investors pulled the rip cord.” Not true. Every […]

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