by Michael Vodicka | Mar 27, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
The first days of spring ushered in a much welcomed change for the market, with stocks reversing two weeks of losses on some encouraging economic data that lifted the averages to their best performance in two months. The market took its marching orders from a pretty...
by Michael Vodicka | Mar 19, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
There are many things the market can plan for. A planet-altering earthquake sending a 30-foot Pacific tsunami into a Japanese nuclear reactor is not one of them. And so it was for the market this week, dealing with the latest incident in what is turning out to be one...
by Michael Vodicka | Mar 12, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
If the market was an obstacle course this week, it would have been called the gauntlet. Let’s take a quick look at what we saw. 1.) Political tension escalating in Libya as key oil ports are bombarded with rockets. 2.) China reports its second monthly trade deficit in...
by Michael Vodicka | Mar 6, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
It is most definitely all about oil. That’s what the market told us this week as stocks stayed volatile on crude’s bullish close above $104 on Friday. The latest round of “how high can oil go, cha-cha-cha” comes at a precarious time, just as the economy produces its...