Federal Reserve Chairman Powell Gives Important Speech in Paris

On July 16, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gave a speech in Paris at a Conference organized by the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance. In this speech, Powell outlined his current thinking about central bank policy and intervention in the marketplace. It is clear from this speech that…

An ETF is an exchange-traded-fund whose assets are invested in the stocks or bonds of publicly traded companies. Most ETF securities specialize in one industry or enterprise effort. For example, the XLE is an ETF that holds large-cap US energy stocks that are members of the S//P 500 Index. This ETF holds…

Looking closely at the relative stock market performance of large and small cap stocks over the past three years provides a clear pattern—large stocks have materially outperformed their small-cap competitors. We present three time period comparisons: three-year, latest 52 week and year-to-date in 2019…

With all the focus on the Federal Reserve and its interest rate policies, it is a good time to review how interest rate levels and changes influence stock market investing. Essentially, interest rates impact the stock market in four separate but equally important ways. We review these four factors below:…

According to the FACTSET June 7, 2109 Earnings Insight report, analysts’ projections for the S/P 500 Index have remained positive. We follow these estimates closely since earnings are one of the main drivers of stock market performance. For the current 2019 year, the latest analyst consensus estimate…