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Bouchey Group of Companies volunteers with the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York

By Samantha Masey | October 22, 2014

On Wednesday, October 22nd associates from Bouchey Financial Group, Ltd. and Bouchey & Clarke Benefits, Inc. volunteered their time at the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York.   The team at Bouchey companies thought it was important to give back to their community and the food bank was recommended as an option by Martin…

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TGIF and what a Friday it was…

By Samantha Masey | October 18, 2014

Written by: Steve Bouchey   Investors who were disciplined enough to stay the course and those that took the opportunity to add stocks to their portfolios were rewarded today with one of the year’s biggest daily gains for the DJIA. The Dow has lost almost 1000 points over the past month and rallied 264 points…

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Volatility is Back

By Samantha Masey | October 13, 2014

Written by: Steve Bouchey   Happy Columbus Day !!! Investors haven’t experienced volatility like this in quite some time and you’d have to go back to October 2011 for the last time the markets suffered a 10% correction. Last week’s roller coaster ride was enough to remind investors that stocks never continue on straight path…

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Bouchey Financial Group 3rd Quarter Market & Economic Review

By Samantha Masey | October 13, 2014

Market Overview U.S. large cap companies continued to show strength in the 3rd quarter with the S&P 500 index increasing 0.66%, extending its string of quarterly gains to seven and pushing the year-to-date gain for the index to 6.68% as shown in Exhibit 1. During the quarter, the index hit its 34th record close on…

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Teaching Heirs How to Manage Wealth

By Samantha Masey | October 3, 2014

Written by Stacy Akaka In today’s economy of “self responsibility”, the ability for an individual to retire depends upon their success in saving for retirement and building wealth. This creation of wealth is in stark contrast to the retirement of previous generations that relied upon pensions and family support to retire and whose retirement was…

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What is “Inversion” and how does it impact shareholders?

By Samantha Masey | September 17, 2014

Written by: Martin X. Shields A term you hear recently in the news is the “inversion” of U.S. companies as they merge with a foreign company in order to reduce their U.S. federal tax bill. There are a number of firms who have recently taken this action including AbbVie (ABBV) a U.S. pharmaceutical firm that…

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Five Reasons to Begin Selling Apple

By Samantha Masey | September 5, 2014

Written by: Ryan Bouchey Many clients of ours hold Apple, and with its success over the years the position has grown to be a rather large allocation in some portfolios. The question now becomes -how do we treat the upcoming Apple announcement next week and what are the long term prospects for Apple’s share price?…