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Market Action Update: Ready, Fire, Aim

| 1/4/19 10:44 AM

On January 3, we witnessed yet another sharp decline in the stock market with the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding 660 points or 2.83%. The S&P 500 declined 2.48%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 3.04%. This market decline was triggered by a warning from Apple that its revenue would fall short of expectations, which it blamed on slowing iPhone sales in China, and a key manufacturing gauge — the ISM Manufacturing Index for..

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All I Want for Christmas

| 12/19/18 11:54 AM

Dear Santa Powell,

Merry Christmas to you and the elves at the Fed! We know you get lots of letters this time of year, but this one is important.

It’s not easy being an investor these days. We’re experiencing a slowdown in global growth. The trade war with China continues. Oil prices are plummeting. Europe is a mess. Brexit is not going well, there are problems in Italy, and France is grappling with the Yellow Vest protests. The political..

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Market Action Update: Dominoes

Today we saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average index plummet almost 800 points, about 3% of its value. It actually fared better than the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ, down 3.24% and 3.80% respectively. What caused such a large move today?

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