The U word and the stock market
This past week, woven in between a bunch of post year-end tax selling to lock up gains, we had a big, short-term drop in the price of crude; the Fed’s latest massage of their message […]
Article, Did You Know, Michael Maehl
So, how’d we do last year?
The S&P folks say that both the S&P500 and the Dow Industrials hit their lows for 2014 early in February. By last Wednesday both had had fairly respectable years. Here’s what they did. S&P said […]
Sequence of Return, The Forgotten Risk
In my last blog, I mentioned the sequence of returns risk and its importance when taking withdrawals in retirement. You have probably heard about the math when trying to recover from a down market. As […]
An interesting couple weeks
Let’s see if I have this straight. On Friday 5 Dec, the S&P and the Dow had just set new all-time closing highs. Then, by Friday the 12th, both the Dow and S&P had completed their worst […]
Confusion abounds – just why are lower energy costs “bad”?
Confusion abounds – why are lower energy costs “bad’? On Friday 5 Dec, the Dow was less than 9 points from 18,000. The S&P and the Dow had just set new all-time closing highs. Then, this […]
