by Laura Hochstetler | Jan 28, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action Stocks continued their winning streak, with the major indexes notching their fourth consecutive weekly gain and moving to new record highs. The British pound rallied above 1.40 against the US dollar for the first time since the Brexit vote. The dollar...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jan 25, 2018 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
At the beginning of 2017, it cost $1.06 (USD) to buy one euro. As of today, $1.235 is needed to buy the same euro. Does that reflect US economic weakness or just EU strength? How about the greenback against the British pound? In early 2017 it cost $1.24 to buy the...
by Laura Hochstetler | Jan 21, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
by Andy Quirk Market Action The U.S. Federal Government officially shut down in the early hours of Saturday as Democrats blocked a stopgap spending measure, allowing government funding to expire. The funding dispute is largely over funding for the Deferred...
by Ken Rietz | Jan 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
The transportation sector can be divided into regional transportation (train, road, and airplane) and global transportation which is largely comprised of maritime shipping. Although this division is not very precise it provides valuable insights because global...
by Laura Hochstetler | Jan 14, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action The Euro rose to a three-year high versus the dollar on Friday after German party leaders reached a breakthrough in talks to form a “grand coalition” and minutes from the ECB’s mid-December meeting signaled the ECB could slow its stimulus...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jan 10, 2018 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
As a starting point, let’s briefly review a few of the forces that are shaping up equities in a positive trajectory during at least the first few months of 2018. Growth has been picking up pace globally – the much celebrated synchronized recovery – and...