Weekly Market Commentary 01.17.2012 On Friday, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, one of the three major U.S. ratings agencies, downgraded France and Austria from AAA to AA+ and downgraded seven others (Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia by one notch and Italy, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus by two notches). The downgrades contributed to the second down day [...]
A European Christmas Carol
Weekly Market Commentary 12.05.2011 Last week, the stock market had the best week since the week ending March 13, 2009, which marked the beginning of the rebound from the long 2007 – 2009 bear market. The S&P 500 Index regained 7.4% last week after a similarly steep slide in the prior week and a half. [...]
Stock’s Sweet Sixteen
Posted on March 19, 2012 by BuchananWealth in Market Commentary
Weekly Market Commentary 03.19.2012 It has been a sweet sixteen weeks for the S&P 500. The broad stock market index has had only three down weeks out of the past sixteen. There has not been a sixteen-week period with fewer weeks of losses in over 20 years — since the period ending September 1, 1989! [...]