Did You Know, Michael Maehl

Wall Street – where good news can be seen as bad

Wall Street – where good news can be seen as bad

Not a great week for the markets. A week ago last Thursday, the S&P500 hit its all-time high. Last Thursday, the same index was down by about 2%. I think it’s fair to say the […]

Fear Strikes Out

Fear Strikes Out

All three major US stock market indicators and most commodity prices closed the week just about exactly where they each ended the week before. We did have the S&P500 touch a new, all-time high on […]

Halfway Point Situation Report

Halfway Point Situation Report

According to the folks at Standard & Poor, it looks as if we’re ending the first half of the year up around 5% on the S&P500 Index for its sixth quarterly gain. Pretty solid result […]

On the Wings of a Snow White Dove

On the Wings of a Snow White Dove

This song title seemed to me to be a good way to define why the market rose this week. Given her hair color and pronouncements this past week as to the Fed’s planned intentions, I […]

Oil Biz

Oil Biz

After rallying 11 times in 13 days, the S&P 500 pulled back for three days in a row last week before rallying on Friday. Overall, the index was off just about one percent for the […]