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Stock Market Insights: Riding the market roller coaster, reassessing risks

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Stock Market Insights: Riding the market roller coaster, reassessing risks

Joe Shearrer is Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Fervent Wealth Management. This past Monday, my wife and I took our kids to Silver...

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Stock Market Insights: Stocks upside potential in 2025

Dr. Richard Baker

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Stock Market Insights: Stocks upside potential in 2025

Looking back, 2024 was another good year for stocks. Stocks were driven higher by AI technology, feisty consumers whose spending...

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Stock Market Insights: December's Santa Claus Rally - will it deliver as expected?

Dr. Richard Baker

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Stock Market Insights: December's Santa Claus Rally - will it deliver as expected?

Investors know that December is historically a great month for stocks, but this year's blowout November might have stolen...

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Stock Market Insights: Tariffs and inflation - implications for 2025

Dr. Richard Baker

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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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Stock Market Insights: Post-election outlook – Historical trends and future investment strategies

Dr. Richard Baker

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Stock Market Insights: Post-election outlook – Historical trends and future investment strategies

While we are just over a week removed from Election Day, the clouds of uncertainty seemed to part as Donald Trump was decisively elected...

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Stock Market Insights: The Trump Effect 2.0 – How a presidential return could reshape markets

Dr. Richard Baker

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Stock Market Insights: The Trump Effect 2.0 – How a presidential return could reshape markets

Trump's presidential victory has put additional pressure on rates, as evidenced by the historic move to higher Treasury yields...

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Stock Market Insights: The stock market's winners and losers post-election

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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Stock Market Insights: A bull market anniversary

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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Stock Market Insights: Balancing acts – What deserves our focus?

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Stock Market Insights: Balancing acts – What deserves our focus?

The Fed matters, but has it been getting too much attention? Since the Fed's announcement, the 10-year yield has risen, not fallen.

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Stock Market Insights: October markets – a pause before the election

Dr. Richard Baker

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Stock Market Insights: October markets – a pause before the election

Looking back to the presidential election years since 1950, stocks in October have averaged a negative return of almost 1%.

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Stock Market Insights: The Fed's bold cut - effects and expectations

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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Stock Market Insights: Economic tests – surviving and thriving

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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Stock Market Insights: September stocks - volatility and opportunities

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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Stock Market Insights: NVIDIA – Striking gold in tech's AI rush

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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Stock Market Insights: Investment flows – trends and dangers

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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Stock Market Insights: Up-downs – Building resilience on the field and in investing

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Stock Market Insights: Up-downs – Building resilience on the field and in investing

Over the last couple of weeks, investors have had to experience the pains of a market pullback. During periods of low volatility...

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Stock Market Insights: Market drop - time to check your risk level

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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Stock Market Insights: The Great Rotation – tech stocks to small caps

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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Stock Market Insights: GM's shifting strategy – a lesson for US businesses

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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Stock Market Insights: Stocks surge despite Trump assassination attempt

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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