by Michael Vodicka | Apr 2, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
Good things rarely come easy, and that’s exactly what just happened in the first quarter of 2011. Stocks were hot out of the gate in January and early February as momentum from late 2010 carried over into the New Year. But just as the market and investors were...
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...
by Michael Vodicka | Feb 27, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
Hello volatility. It was another wild week for the market, with stocks posting their first 3-day drop in nine months before rebounding on Friday to ease the pain. The only sector that finished up on the week was energy, lifted by the biggest move in crude in over two...
