Market Week: February 3, 2014
The Markets (as of market close February 28, 2014) It's a small, small world: Despite various attempts at propping up local currencies, emerging markets continued to suffer from concerns that…
2014 Financial Resolutions
In life, it’s pretty difficult to get to a specific destination unless you know where you’re going. In finance it’s difficult, if not impossible, to achieve your specific financial goals…
Market Week: January 27, 2014
The Markets (as of market close January 27, 2014) A double whammy helped trigger a selloff in equities last week. Weaker-than-expected manufacturing data from China helped fuel concerns about the…
Market Week: January 13, 2014
The Markets (as of market close January 13, 2014) Believers in the so-called January indicator--the concept that the first five trading days suggest the stock market's overall direction for the…
Annual Market Review 2013
Overview Standoffs, sequestration, shutdown, and suspense in Washington supplied the wall of worry that equities markets are said to be so fond of climbing. And climb it they did. The…
Market Week: January 6, 2014
The Markets (as of market close January 6, 2014) Equities rang in the new year by taking a bit of a breather. As investors decided to take some of the…
Prepping for 2013 Tax Filing
The IRS recently announced that they’d begin processing tax returns on January 30th, 2014. If you’re not ready to meet that aggressive timeline, you can always wait until the April…
Market Week: December 30, 2013
The Markets (as of market close December 30, 2013) Strong economic reports, particularly one that suggested that businesses are confident enough in the future to spend more on equipment, helped…
End of The Year Tax Planning
There are only a couple of weeks left in 2013. It may seem impossible —that the year has flown by too quickly— but the calendar doesn’t lie. Here are seven…
Do Coupons Make You Overspend?
What would you do to shave a few dollars off your weekly grocery bill? To many people, spending an hour cutting coupons from the Sunday paper sounds like the perfect…
