“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 [...]
Interest rates, inflation, and commodity prices are all trending higher. This is typical of late cycles and reflective of strong economic growth. Companies that benefit from these trends ought [...]
Earnings season is here. Finally, instead of conjecture laced with fear, we get some real information. The recent stock market volatility has been exacerbated by the fact that so many companies [...]
Despite the crashing waves of domestic and geopolitics, our ship of state keeps on sailing. This points to the usual separation of politics from economics in investing. Certainly, at extremes, [...]
Riverplace Capital is pleased to announce the addition of Scott Wohlers to our team as a Vice President. Scott’s background is in banking, having managed a branch office for Regions [...]
As violent as current reactions have been, stocks are still within the boundaries of the recent trading range. Ranges get established by just this kind of market action. Stock averages [...]
