Sometimes investors like feeling a little frightened. The more scary stories we share, the less opportunity for “irrational exuberance” to spiral out of control. We’ve all trained ourselves to distrust a rally that runs too far from the fundamentals. It’s why we talk so much

Sometimes the market gets a little too far ahead of reality or sets up a narrative and then reality twists. You zig, the world zags and then you need to skate harder to where the puck is going. That’s what happened last week (we talked about

Think back six weeks. The market was breaking records, but investors kept nervously scanning the skies. After all, September is statistically the worst month of the year for Wall Street and October is no prize either. This can be a stormy season. And then there

There’s a $9 trillion elephant lurking over Wall Street’s shoulder and its name is Big Tech. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook now account for 22% of the S&P 500, double where we normally expect the top stocks in the market to weigh in. When

We’ve talked a lot about earnings lately for a simple reason. When the market starts drifting into a realm of rumor and supposition, concrete numbers provide an anchor of material fact for the noise to swirl around. That’s especially true now, as earnings season gears

As we shift from a nervous week into what could become an earnings cycle filled with tantrums, I find myself buckling in for a historically frustrating season on Wall Street. After all, investors are clearly reaching for any excuse to sell stocks that a few