Stock Prices, Oil Prices, Pandemic Concerns

Financial Coach – March 10, 2020 Yesterday — March 9 — was the eleventh anniversary of the crescendo of global panic that marked the bottom of the bear market of 2007-09. It is a thing of the most wonderful irony that the world has elected to celebrate this iconic anniversary with – you guessed it […]
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Market Update

Wow! What a week we are having in the stock market. The price of the benchmark S&P 500 has dropped some 340 points (as of this writing) since closing at an all-time high (3,380.16) on 2/19/2020, with most of the action occurring this week.  The headlines are reading that the market is entering “Correction” territory, […]
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Coronavirus Update

On Friday, January 17, 2020 the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index closed at 3,329.62. This was the result of a spectacular 40% run-up that started the day after Christmas 2018.  Two weeks later to that day — last Friday, January 31st — the S&P Index closed a little over three percent (3%) lower, at 3,225.52, with more than half of […]
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