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If we don’t yet have a trade war, we’re at least fighting some increasingly serious skirmishes.  Our side’s calculation is that this is a good time to pressure our trading partners for [...]

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The Federal Government tried to stop the merger between AT&T and Time Warner citing restraint of trade and a potential for higher consumer costs.  This argument was soundly rejected.  Content [...]

The stock market continues to be a battle between two competing outlooks.  One forecasts a slow, challenging growth environment for the economy and the other an acceleration.  Some investors even [...]

Crises in the stock market occur rather regularly.  Most pass quickly and represent no fundamental change in the business outlook.  These do offer an opportunity to acquire bargains or perhaps [...]

The bulls aren’t satisfied; the bears aren’t either.  Stocks, that look like they are about to breakout, break down.  Those in serious downtrends suddenly reverse, finding support and attracting [...]

“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”; there is no breakout to new highs and no breakdown.  The stock market remains in a trading range.  It’s not just our market, but almost all of [...]

VIX is an index that measures overall market volatility.  After spiking earlier this year, this measure is calming down.  What is not is sector and individual stock volatility.  Some individual [...]

Fears arise for a variety of reasons.  Sometimes they are grounded in real threats to business and stock values and other times they are specious and of only passing concern.  It is sometimes [...]

The FANG stocks; Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, are finally falling back to earth.  These companies, along with a similar group of others, have had terrific growth.  Unfortunately, this [...]