Treasury yields were supported by another positive US bill auction with the Jan 23rd results. After a tumultuous year, the bond market consistently shows strength with the results of the 52-week bill auction and the 2-year note auction. Although it’s not hitting every news headline, bond auctions are a low-risk investment, so no news [...]
Market Recap: A Rollercoaster Week Unveiled Last week saw the stock market navigating through twists and turns, driven by a mix of economic data and investor sentiments. From a tech-driven sell-off to concerns about rising bond yields, each day brought new challenges. Tuesday witnessed a broad sell-off, particularly in the tech sector, with rising [...]
Despite the positive reports from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Tuesday was a damp day following Fed Christopher Waller’s comments to approach rate cuts slowly. Rate cuts are always good news, but his speech was not what hopeful investors wanted to hear. After anticipating six cuts in 2024 starting in March, the speech contradicted [...]
Dr. DiLiddo may be retired, but he’s not done sharing his wisdom. I don’t believe that he’ll ever retire from sharing his insights and expertise in an effort to help individual investors, like you and me, make money in the stock market. His most recent brainchild, The Seven Deadly Sins of Investing, is one [...]
BIG WINNERS IN AI. Written by: Angela Akers Besides the Fed’s 25-basis point rate hike, tech’s earnings highs and lows, and a blockbuster January Jobs report, everybody’s also talking about Artificial Intelligence, AI, this week. At the end of November, the user base of a private company called OpenAI, exploded after it released the [...]
Written by: Angela Akers The market began the New Year with a bang. In the first two trading weeks, the Dow added 3.5%, the S&P500 rose 4.2%, the Nasdaq climbed 5.9% and the Price of the VectorVest Composite (VVC) increased 5.6% through January 13, 2023. However, the mood soured a bit this week as [...]
Written by: Angela Akers The Federal Reserve had its final meeting of 2022 last week and raised interest rates by 50 basis points, from 4.25% to 4.50%. Fed Chair Jerome Powell set expectations that the Fed funds rate will increase to between 5.00% and 5.25% by early next year and remain at that level [...]
How to spot what companies are hiding in their accounts In the latest episode of Fantastic Female Fridays, we have the founder and CEO of Accountant Online, Larissa Feeney in our show, to share her insightful views based on her professional experience in the accounting industry. What are the key principles that underpin a [...]
ESG & Tech Show – What is driving fintech and is it investable today? In the latest ESG & Tech show episode, I discussed fintech, what drives it and whether it’s an investable theme right now. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, fintech is financial technology. It includes everything from payments, online banking, [...]
How to Be Imperfect with Money During the latest episode of Fantastic Female Fridays, I interviewed Allegra Brantly, Factora Wealth on the topic of “How to be Imperfect with Money”. We chose that title because often the thought “I must be fully ready/prepared/educated to take action” can truly debilitate people from moving forward. If you’ve [...]
