Jan-15 Weekly Market Commentary from Guide Rock Capital – FT013
The Markets Last week investors were turning to stocks. Was it the generally strong performance of stock market indices during 2012 or something else? Theories were abundant. Some speculated that the...
View ArticleJan-22 Weekly Market Commentary from Guide Rock Capital – FT014
The Markets Investors appeared to be as optimistic as a newly-engaged couple last week. Strong housing data, a positive labor report, temporary easing of debt ceiling pressures, and some...
View ArticleFeb-11 Weekly Market Commentary from Guide Rock Capital – FT016
The Markets Like a climber determined to reach a peak, stock markets continued to move higher last week. Signs of strength in U.S. and international trade data improved the outlook for economic growth...
View ArticleFeb-18 Weekly Market Commentary from Guide Rock Capital – FT017
Weekly Market Commentary from Guide Rock Capital – February 18, 2013 Stocks delivered mixed performance last week. The Dow Jones Industrials and NASDAQ Indices moved lower while the Standard &...
View ArticleFeb-25 Weekly Market Commentary from Guide Rock Capital – FT018
The Markets Like Canadian geese migrating in anticipation of winter, stock markets moved south last week in anticipation of monetary tightening. Minutes from the January Federal Reserve Open Market...
View ArticleMar-4 Weekly Market Commentary from Guide Rock Capital – FT019
It was a bumpy week for stock markets. Early on, markets in many countries were negatively affected by the outcome of Italian elections. Italy’s anti-establishment Five-Star Movement, led by comedian...
View ArticleMar-11 Weekly Market Commentary from Guide Rock Capital – FT020
During periods of strong market performance, like the one we’ve experienced since the end of last year, it’s important to remember that markets ebb and flow over time. Since December 31, 2012, the Dow...
View ArticleSlowing Markets and the Growing Middle Class–Guide Rock Weekly Market...
Like winded runners, stock markets slowed at the end of last week. Since the start of the year, the Dow Jones Industrials Index has risen by almost 11 percent, hurdling past new highs several times....
View ArticlePositive Results for US Markets for Q1 2013 – Guide Rock Weekly Market...
U.S. stock markets finished the week – and the quarter – on a positive note. The Federal Reserve’s accommodative monetary policy and strong profit growth helped provide the lift needed to propel the...
View ArticleThere’s a New Bric in Town and Japanese Stagflation – Guide Rock Weekly...
U.S. investors puzzled over disparate pieces of economic and world news last week. By the end of the week, major U.S. markets had tumbled indicating investors didn’t like what they’d seen. Under new...
View ArticleThe Fed Makes a Mistake and Reversion to the Mean – Guide Rock Weekly Market...
Last week, the term ‘Easy Money’ conjured both comedian Rodney Dangerfield and the U.S. Federal Reserve, and no one was certain how much respect either one should get. The Fed accidentally e-mailed...
View ArticleAre You Responsible for Your Loved One’s Unpaid Debt? – Guide Rock Weekly...
It was a wild, wild week. Last Monday, bombs exploded near the finish of the Boston Marathon. Not long after, media outlets let the public know letters to President Obama and a senator from Mississippi...
View ArticleAP Twitter Hacked and Markets Move, Who Owns all the Gold? – Guide Rock...
If anyone doubted the power of Twitter, their skepticism was laid to rest this week. Early Tuesday afternoon, a tweet from the Associated Press reported President Obama had been injured by explosions...
View ArticleMarkets Testing Limits and Does Money Buy Happiness? Guide Rock Weekly Market...
Like athletes testing their limits, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Dow Jones Industrials Indices both hit new highs last week. The S&P closed the week above the 1,600 level for the first...
View ArticleSell in May and Go Away and Where Will You Live When You Retire? Guide Rock...
‘Sell in May and Go Away’ is a trading maxim which, according to Investopedia, encourages an investor to “sells his or her stock holdings in May and get back into the equity market in November…”...
View ArticleUniversity of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Survey and Phenomenon Called...
Much like elementary school children trying to capture the attention of someone they have a crush on, the American economy sent lots of mixed signals last week. Conflicting reports emerged about...
View ArticleQuantitative Easing, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is it...
The Fed will taper… the Fed will not… the Fed will taper… the Fed will not… Last week, investors and traders obsessed about the Federal Reserve and the possibility it might begin to end its...
View ArticleMarkets Wobble on Quantitative Easing, Are the Markets like Sports? Guide...
Like a funhouse mirror, investors’ concerns about whether and when the Federal Reserve will begin to end its quantitative easing program contorted market responses to economic news last week....
View ArticleThe Markets Hate the Slowing of Quantitative Easing and The Value of...
Like a host at a dinner party, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) put the performance of the U.S. economy on the table last week to be gnawed over by world markets. When the IMF presented its annual...
View ArticleFederal Open Market Committee Policy Meeting and Is There a Housing Bubble? –...
It was like watching a game of telephone where one child speaks into another child’s ear and that child speaks into another child’s ear and, by the time the last child repeats the original statement,...
View ArticleSecond Quarter Recap and Women in the Workforce – Guide Rock Weekly Market...
The second quarter offered a level of drama often found in homes with teenagers. When investors realized their good friend, quantitative easing, might have an earlier-than-expected curfew, they threw a...
View ArticleThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) Fiddles while the US Markets Rocket...
One of these things is not like the other… If you find yourself humming that old Sesame Street standard when you think about financial markets and world economies, you’re probably not alone. To the...
View ArticleHow to Handle Quarterly Earning Reports and Measuring Innovation – The Guide...
Singing the earnings song… Each year, in January, April, July, and October, most publicly-traded companies announce their corporate earnings results. These announcements can have a dramatic effect on...
View ArticleEuropean Unemployment and Moderate vs Modest – The Guide Rock Capital Weekly...
You say to-may-to. I say to-mah-to. You have to be a careful reader to keep up with the Federal Reserve these days. Last week, the Fed re-characterized the pace of economic growth in the United States...
View ArticlePost Labor Day Employment Data and the NFL – The Guide Rock Capital Market...
Last week was crunch time in the National Football League (NFL). With the 2013 regular season approaching rapidly, NFL teams cut about 700 players from their rosters over the Labor Day weekend. That...
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