As we quickly approach the holiday season many of you with small businesses get anxious about how to handle the last quarter of the year. The holidays are great, but can be fraught with pitfalls if you don’t plan accordingly. This is especially true if your business has seasonal tendencies that coincide with the holiday […] Read more

For those of you who are not familiar, the Wikipedia says this “A repurchase agreement, also known as a repo, is a form of short-term borrowing, mainly in government securities. The dealer sells the underlying security to investors and buys them back shortly afterward, usually the following day, at a slightly higher price.” If you […] Read more

Stocks were extremely volatile in August as the market got whipsawed by various developments throughout the month. The S&P gained or lost over 1% in 11 of the 21 trading days during the month and in the end, the index dropped 1.8% on the month. Now we enter September with investors nervous and the ninth […] Read more

In these polarizing times we live in, controversy never seems to be too far away. From day-to-day politics to the world of sport, it appears we have an attraction to things that cause a bit of a stir. One might think that it would be an obvious plus to have your ad next to something […] Read more

Over the last few weeks, we have seen a huge increase in global stock market volatility. It really started with the United States Federal Reserve cutting interest rates on July 31. The rate cut essentially took place because of the trade war between China and the U.S. Fed Chairman Powell pretty much pointed to the […] Read more

We know your time is valuable and that you can’t take care of everything at once, let alone find the time to sit down, relax, grab a Starbucks, and watch a podcast. However, that is exactly what you should do. Not only will it give you an hour or so to decompress, it can be […] Read more

It is hard to get a tweet in between President Trump and his infinite trade war rhetoric with Europe over cars and airplanes, with foreign producers of steel, and with China over just about everybody else. However, brewing beneath the surface in Asia is a terse confrontation between Japan and South Korea, adversaries of centuries […] Read more

With the S&P 500 trading near the 3,000 level and a record high, stocks have bounced back from a slight decline in May and many are in or close to overbought levels. The bounce back has also caused investor sentiment to jump sharply as well. There are few signs pointing to trouble for the market […] Read more

Earnings season is underway at this time, and the few stocks that have announced have produced some mixed results so far. One industry that is expected to see earnings decline in the second quarter is the tech sector, and we have seen mixed results from International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) and Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX). IBM saw earnings grow, […] Read more

The semiconductor industry has been one of the top performing industries over the past six months. The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (NYSE: SMH) has gained 24.64 percent from April 20 through October 20. The S&P 500 has gained 9.31 percent during that same time period. That means the SMH has gained 2.5 times what the […] Read more