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As expected, the Fed did not change the Fed Funds rate today. Also as expected the Fed Chair said very little in his press conference. With just two

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As the country waits for the winter blast, stocks had a trading day with mixed results. The Dow sold off, while the Nasdaq saw modest gains. It really

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The headlines are simply overwhelming the markets. Greenland, tariffs, Japanese bonds, the 10 -year Treasury Note, and that’s just to name a few. It’s a

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The bulls had a nice rally going most of the trading session but ran out of gas late in the day. The banks and chipmaker shares led the way higher as we

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This morning’s jobs number came in a little light with 50,000 new payrolls added in December vs. the expected 73,000. But the unemployment rate did tick

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