Author: Liz Young

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What the Silicon Valley Bank failure means for investors

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Bad Moon Rising Last week’s events surrounding Silicon Valley Bank & Signature Bank, just to name a couple, served as a painful reminder of how quickly …

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What are the stock market’s biggest red flags right now?

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Chutes and Ladders With Chairman Powell’s testimony marking another message of “data dependency,” I can’t help but feel like every data point either sends the market …

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Latest stock market trends reveal some good and not-so-good news for investors

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Get Shorty My first job out of college was as a trader for a trust company, in a department called automated cash management. That meant I …

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The 2023 stock market so far: Up, up and …?

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Splitsville This may be one of the more short-term oriented posts I’ll write, but we’re in an era of short attention spans and a market walk …

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Watch out: The latest market trends may look good on paper, but bad in reality

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Same Same, but Different Different This week’s big news story was, yet again, about inflation. January headline CPI came in above expectations but slightly below December. …

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Why this might be one of the hardest financial cycles of our lifetime

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The Future Is Further Away Recently in a CNBC interview, I admitted what I’ve gotten wrong so far in 2023 is that I thought it would …

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An investment pro breaks down the Fed’s February statement

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Close, But No Cigar In its first statement of 2023, the Federal Reserve raised its target policy rate by 25 basis points (bps) to an upper …

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A financial pro looks at 5 undeniable truths about the 2023 market

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  Walks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck In recent weeks, due in large part to a market rally that kicked off the year, the …

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An investment pro looks at China

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  Much Ado About China Although China is rarely noticeably absent from headlines, its return to being top of mind has been feverishly fierce in recent …

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Why this investment pro is eyeing the services sector

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  Check Engine Soon That’s the dashboard light no one likes to see. Occasionally it’s a simple malfunction and no big deal, but other times it’s …

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An investment pro looks at the 2023 market so far

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  Start Me Up Well, we certainly had ourselves a scary little Christmas, with the S&P ending down 6% for December, after the much hoped for …

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An investment pro looks ahead to 2023

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  A new year is supposed to be a time of fresh starts, enthusiasm for what’s to come, and resolutions to do something different. But starting …

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A financial pro breaks down the Fed’s December statement

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  Let it Slow, Let it Slow, Let it Slow Last December, I wrote a column about the Fed’s final statement of 2021 with a section …

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Feliz Navi-Dow: An investment pro weighs in on market divergence

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  It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Contrast Happy December, everyone. With the beginning of this merry month comes the time of year when I …

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An investment pro looks at retail health ahead of the holidays

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  Spend Game It’s mid-November, which means we’re about to embark on the beloved holiday season. For most, the holidays mean eating, drinking and being merry. …

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A financial pro breaks down tech stocks

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  Check on Your Tech No matter which way you slice or dice it, Technology stocks have had a tough go in this environment. Since the …

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An investment pro breaks down the Fed’s November statement

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  Slow Your Roll It seems that every Fed meeting this year has felt like the most important Fed meeting. Today was no exception (although we’ll likely say …

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It’s time to add classic recession positions to your portfolio

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  By now, we’re desensitized enough to the word “recession” that the mention of it doesn’t send us into a tailspin. The current probability of a …

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Are markets poised for improvement? An investment pro weighs in

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A Breadth of Fresh Air? After suffering a painful September (S&P 500 -9.3%), October’s month-to-date performance of +3.1% feels pretty spectacular. At the time of this …

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How well is the Fed fighting inflation? An investment pro weighs in

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  How Would You Like that Cooked? The Federal Reserve’s move to increase the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) by another 75 basis points to an upper …

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Is the stock market headed for a quick and painful drop?

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  Tough Love This week’s CPI report served up tough love for both bulls and hopeful doves. The rally that took us back above 4,000 on …

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Can we expect new market lows if a recession is coming?

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  Still Between the Uprights In celebration of the start to the NFL’s regular season this week, please humor my football analogies and shameless plug for …

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What August tells us about the market ahead

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  Asset returns were broadly negative during the seasonally low volume month of August. The Federal Reserve reiterated its commitment to fighting inflation and restoring price …

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China vs US: Whose economic policy will work?

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  Separate Ways, Worlds Apart For many months, we have focused almost unilaterally on the path of tightening by the Federal Reserve, and what the next …

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Investment pro: Housing doesn’t look good, but this ain’t 2008

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  We’re at a point in the economic cycle where depending on your opinion of whether we’re headed for a serious downturn or not, you can …

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Is inflation finally cooling off? An investment pro weighs in

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  Running of the Bulls Bullish sentiment was the star of the show yesterday as year-over-year July CPI came in at 8.5% — below estimates and …

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Is yet another fed rate hike coming? Money pro weighs in

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  Returns were positive across most asset classes in July, a welcome development after a tough June. Interest rates declined broadly on fears of a downturn, …

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Are we headed into a recession? This money pro weighs in

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  The Earnings Engine that Could With roughly 65% of S&P 500 companies having now reported their Q2 results, the verdict is nearly in and earnings …

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Investment pro breaks down what the latest fed rate hike means

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  Hot Hike Summer It’s hard to believe we’re only four hikes and just over four months into this hiking cycle. The Federal Open Market Committee …

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Tread carefully into the market this summer, investment pro warns

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  A Tale of Three Spreads I’m not talking about a mezze platter. In this macro-obsessed environment, I want to take a moment to focus on …