Stock Market Insights: Tariffs and inflation - implications for 2025
A report last week showed that inflation in October rose 0.2% from September, continuing the same steady monthly pace as July, August and...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: The stock market's winners and losers post-election
Because of the potential policy differences, there could likely be market “winners and losers” depending on who wins the presidential...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: A bull market anniversary
It is hard to believe that the S&P 500 closed at 3,577 only two years ago (it’s at 5,800 now) when investors were nervous that the inflation
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: The Fed's bold cut - effects and expectations
The rate cut helps some and hurts others. When rates are lowered, Americans with credit cards or other debts pay less interest...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Economic tests – surviving and thriving
The Federal Reserve (Fed) is ready to pat itself on the back. They may have steered the U.S. through a difficult season with one of its...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: September stocks - volatility and opportunities
Stock trading volume is low during the summer when most Americans take vacations. It seems that when Labor Day ends...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: NVIDIA – Striking gold in tech's AI rush
From an earnings perspective, all eyes have been on the computer chip maker NVIDIA, which announced its earnings...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Investment flows – trends and dangers
Investment fund flows, which measure the movement of cash in and out of investments, can reveal patterns in investor sentiment and general..
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Market drop - time to check your risk level
Historically, stocks tend to be a bust in August. July was the eighth positive month out of the last nine, but it was quickly forgotten...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: The Great Rotation – tech stocks to small caps
Since July 10, the day the June Consumer Price Index (CPI) was released, the Magnificent 7 (Apple, Tesla, etc) group of large tech companies
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: GM's shifting strategy – a lesson for US businesses
General Motors' earnings report was noticeably better this week than Wall Street’s estimates. It focused less on China...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Stocks surge despite Trump assassination attempt
Nothing is deterring this stock market. On the Monday after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Market signals - yellow flags in stock market
I think the stock market light is turning yellow, and I’m watching to see what investors do about it.
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Profiting from AI – The costly gamble
Almost all tech companies are betting on consumers adding new monthly subscriptions for AI services for $20 to $30 monthly.
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Fed's inflation tool fail
The Fed kept rates steady on Wednesday because of stubbornly high inflation. The Fed rate remains at the highest level in 23 years...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Market trends, opportunities and election impact
To say May was an eventful month for the market is an understatement. Investors navigated around the end of first-quarter earnings...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Consumer confidence –Optimism for now, concerns for the future
Consumer confidence numbers released Tuesday showed an unexpected improvement in U.S. consumer confidence in May...
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: AI fuels utility sector's surprising surge
Energy is the key to the future, and power companies are starting to be significant players in the future of Artificial intelligence (AI).
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Meme – a costly lesson in speculation
Sadly, meme stocks are popular again, and I’m afraid they will take a lot of hard-earned money down the drain with them.
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Dr. Richard Baker
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Stock Market Insights: Investors hopeful for cash wave
Investors were hoping all the extra cash savings from the pandemic years would start moving from money market funds into stocks
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