“This is a test; this is only a test. Had this been an actual emergency …” The truth is, the markets are not tanking as we write this piece. In fact, overall market temperatures have been so mild for...
Welcome to the first installment in our series of Del Monte Group’s Evidence-Based Investment Insights: You, the Market and the Prices You Pay. When it comes to investing (or anything in life worth doing well) it helps to know...
Well, that was quite a roller coaster ride in the stock markets today! If you were watching between 11:30 AM and the close at 1 PM, you were treated to a real show. At one point, the Dow was...
If you’ve been following our blog for long, then you’re surely familiar with the saying, “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” Reason being, if you were to drop that one basket, you risk breaking and losing...
With the stock markets blowing through thousands of points on the Dow in a matter of just a few weeks, we are hearing from clients who are understandably concerned about a big crash or at least a significant market...
Market Update – 4th Quarter 2017 2017 was quite a remarkable year for stocks! Nearly every corner of the globe experienced strong positive stock returns – large companies, small companies, international developed, emerging markets, and the list goes on....
Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency: What’s It All About? Have you caught cryptocurrency fever, or are you at least wondering what it’s all about? Odds are, you hadn’t even heard the term until recently. Now, it seems as if everybody...
Our Mantra If you’ve taken our past advice about ignoring the onslaught of breaking market news, you probably didn’t read Russell Investments’ recent “2017 Global Market Outlook Q4 Update.” We’re not prone to pore over these relatively unremarkable...
Investment Market Update: Q3 2017 If you would have told us in June that after all of the headline-grabbing events over the last three months—failure to pass healthcare reform, hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, saber-rattling by the North Korean dictator...
September 2017 It will soon be the 10-year anniversary of when, in early October 2007, the S&P 500 Index hit what was its highest point before losing more than half its value over the next year and a half...