Bouchey Blog
Written by: Steven B. Bouchey The stock market didn’t need any more reasons to extend the recent volatility but guess what, todays jobs report did just that. The number of new jobs created was 142,000, well short of the estimated 200,000 jobs. This could confuse the Fed more as to when should they should raise interest rates. What was…
Written by: Ryan Bouchey The two leading sources of the markets bad fortunes of late are the Federal Reserve and China. We’ve discussed in great detail our perspective regarding the Fed – essentially that uncertainty is rattling the markets and when the Fed does decide to raise rates it should help the stock market. We haven’t…
Written by: Ryan Bouchey Another Federal Reserve meeting without a change to the federal funds rate has left investors with more questions than answers and led to a brief sell off in the equity markets. Through the end of day Thursday and into the futures market on Friday morning, all U.S. indices have declined.…
Written by: Martin X. Shields To be financially successful, it is important to understand how much our financial and investment decisions are impacted by our personal behavioral characteristics and our emotions versus solid analytical research. Having a good understanding of this interdependence doesn’t mean that you will be able to completely remove emotions or human…
Written by: Ryan Bouchey The August jobs numbers are out and for all intents and purposes it was a big miss. Economist had forecasted 220,000 jobs being added and only 173,000 were created, and the unemployment rate actually fell to 5.1%. This was a very important reading as it’s the last piece of major economic…
Written by: Martin X. Shields As we approach the beginning of another school year, the discussion will begin for juniors and seniors in high school about the potential direction they will take for college. What has always been an important decision has taken on additional weight given the dramatic college tuition increases seen over the…
Written by: Ryan Bouchey Following the Monday we just experienced, it’s important to keep the current market environment in perspective. With the constant cycle of bad stock market news we need to take a closer look at what is actually causing the selloff. There are many different levels of a market selloff and thus…