Friends Stocks look to be taking on a slightly negative tone as we work our way into September. Nothing of any real consequence, but it appears that market participants are a little bit hesitant to add to long positions at the moment. We are still trying to determine...

Friends While the business media was obsessing over the Apple rollout of the iPhone 7 today, stocks were busy doing a whole lot of nothing. The beige book report shows modest domestic economic growth, but did show a bit of strength in wage growth (but little else in...

Friends Ok, everyone should be back from the Hamptons now and trading volume and interest should pick up. Today, we did see a bit of volatility as stocks spent time in both positive and negative territory. By the close, the bulls had the upper hand, but I wouldn’t...

Friends Well, it appears we had a goldilocks type of jobs report this morning. Oh, it disappointed on some levels, as the 151,000 new jobs created was less than the 180,000 or so expected, and the 0.1% increase in average hourly earnings was somewhat anemic, but...

Friends Stocks drifted in decidedly negative territory for just about all of today’s trading session until a small recovery kicked in during the last hour of trading. There was very little in the way of any news catalysts (although auto sales were a bit disappointing,...