Markets continued the rally through the holiday-shortened week, giving the S&P 500 and Dow their eighth straight week of gains. Markets are up for the third month in a row, leading to hopes for a great close to the year. Click here to read the full story.

Markets ended a fairly bullish week mixed, gaining in some sectors, while others fell to earnings jitters. Click here to read the full story.

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Increasing your wealth over time is about more than making the right stock picks or always buying low and selling high. Too often, we see intelligent investors shoot themselves in the feet by making fundamental errors in their investing strategy. Through years of experience, we have observed the effects of fear, greed, lack of discipline, […]

The big news last week was that the federal government shut down on Tuesday, October 1 when Congress would not pass a 2014 budget bill. Since many federal agencies require their funding to be renewed each fiscal year, they were forced to shut down, furloughing 800,000 federal workers, and causing disruptions in services across the […]

Markets ended the last trading day of August in the red, with the Dow and S&P 500 posting their worst monthly declines since May 2012.  Trading was slow on Friday as worries about the escalating Syria situation and the Fed appear to have discouraged some investors.  For the week, the S&P 500 lost 1.84%, the […]