Originally Posted on January 8, 2013 2012 Year End Perspective  2012 was a year filled with uncertainty. The final results are quite surprising considering all the sweat and hand wringing that filled the year. It is not surprising that the market does exactly what was not predicted. The market indexes all finished higher: DOW up 7.3% S&P up 13.4% Nasdaq up 15.9% Nattering nabobs of negativism "In the United States today, we have more than our share of . They have formed their

Originally Published on October 6, 2012 The market is having a very good year so far. The S&P 500 is up 14.56% year to date. Prices are being driven by our Federal Reserve policy, as noted in Barron;s 10-1-2012 http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111904414004578016363017457512.html?mod=BOL_hps_dc “With the Fed providing easy money, Nordberg is betting that inflation will bolster growth stocks. "It's all wildly inflationary, and stocks are real assets," he says.

Originally Published on July 8, 2012 Up Year, down quarter Q2 2012 has been filled with downs and ups. The volatility of EURO /Banking /Government debt crisis has returned to the market like a summer ritual. The numbers year to date are actually quite good. The Global Index MXWO:IND is up 4.49%, while the US markets are up 8.31% SPX:IND.   The markets remain very nervous and each day seems to have mass psychology that oscillates like the weather. Equity portfolios are bein

Originally Published April 7 2012 “Stocks up 12%, best quarterly start since 1998.” Now, that is a headline to be grateful for. The market has confounded the pessimism of most of 2011 with a great start.  The Dow is up 8.14% ytd and the NASDAQ is up a whopping 18.67% ytd. Now what? Well, it will never be easy. You can expect that the political events leading to the presidential election of 2012 are going to be very tough for the market. The reality is that it is ALWAYS tough.