by lindapowell | Mar 30, 2020 | Articles, In The News
What’s the difference? What do these terms mean for you? The COVID-19 outbreak has put tremendous pressure on stock prices, prompting some investors to blindly and indiscriminately sell positions at a time when the entire market is trending lower. Worried investors...
by lindapowell | May 11, 2018 | Articles, Economic Updates
May 2018 THE MONTH IN BRIEF April saw the S&P 500 advance 0.27% as a new earnings season unfolded – one in which investors grew uneasy about rising Treasury yields, protectionism, and privacy concerns involving tech giants. While the financial media largely...
by lindapowell | Mar 6, 2018 | Articles, Economic Updates
March 2018 THE MONTH IN BRIEF Investors certainly received a wake-up call in February. A correction hit Wall Street for the first time in nearly two years, and benchmarks overseas were also challenged. Two weeks later, though, the S&P 500 had gained back more than...
by lindapowell | Feb 16, 2018 | Articles, Newsletters
by lindapowell | Feb 13, 2018 | Articles, In The News
After 20 months of relative calm, take this volatility in stride Are you upset by what is happening on Wall Street? It may help to see this pullback within a big-picture context. Corrections have become so rare as of late that when one occurs, emotion threatens to...