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March 2013
March 29, 2013 12:00 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review You still can attend my upcoming presentations in May. The first is one of our regular free online investment presentations. This one is May 1 at 3:30 p.m. eastern time. I’ll discuss “Adjusting Your Investments for 2013’s Second Half.” You can register at this […]
February 2013
February 22, 2013 04:25 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review A couple of factors were at work in the markets this week. After opening the year with seven weeks of gains, including the strongest January since 1997, many investors were looking for a reason to sell. They got it with the release of the […]
January 2013
January 25, 2013 04:40 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There were a few conflicts in the headlines that kept investors from moving strongly in either direction. The positive news was a decision by House Republicans to extend the debt ceiling for three months with no conditions other than a requirement that the Senate […]
December 2012
December 21, 2012 04:55 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I’m looking forward to the upcoming holidays and hope you are, too. Absent some significant event, I plan to take next week off. There’s won’t be a weekly Retirement Money Memo. I’ll be back the following week to start off the new year. Another […]
November 2012
November 30, 2012 04:40 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There’s still room available at my next free online investment presentation, but slots are filling up. I’ll try to make some sense and order of current economic and market issues and answer the question: How should you manage your portfolio in this environment? You […]
October 2012
October 26, 2012 04:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review The markets had bumpy rides the law few weeks. One cause of the market swings is earnings season. Investors should have been prepared for lower earnings and revenue because of the poor economic data since last spring. But they apparently were used to corporations […]
September 2012
September 28, 2012 04:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review First, a scheduling note. I’ll be traveling next week and probably won’t post a weekly summary. There also will be light posting on my public blog. I’ll be back in full gear the week of Oct. 8. A number of events caused markets to […]
August 2012
August 31, 2012 05:45 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Ben Bernanke’s given his important Jackson Hole speech, indicating the Fed might take more action at its September meeting. But what, if anything, will Europe do? And what about the fiscal cliff in the U.S.? Will China suffer a hard landing? There’s a lot […]
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