Friends  As Irma bears down on Florida, the markets seem to be somewhat on hold. While everyone keeps an eye on the storm, we'll also hope that nothing disturbing happens this weekend with the North Korean situation. We'll just have to stay tuned for all of it.  In...

Friends  Stocks were mostly quiet today other than shares of Disney (a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average) which suffered from an early earnings warning. Other than that everyone seems focused on just where Hurricane Irma will hit and what kind of damage could...

Friends  As our city of Houston attempts to recover, Irma is now assaulting islands in the Caribbean and threatening Florida and beyond. That would have been the biggest news of the day had President Trump not made a deal with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi on...

Friends  Was it "September is a bad month for stocks"? Or, how about Irma bearing down on Florida? Perhaps it was the North Koreans becoming more nuclear capable. Maybe it was a lack of confidence that anything positive can come out of the fiscal side of the equation...

Friends  September got off to a decent start for stocks despite a less than stellar jobs report. 156,000 new jobs were created in August and the unemployment rate came in at 4.4%. Average hourly earnings continue to tick up but at a snail's pace. Fed watchers seem to...