Friends  The non-farm payroll number came in a little shy of expectations, but the previous two months were both revised higher. The monthly and year over year average hourly wage number was as expected, again indicating the wages continue to increase, but at a rate...

Friends  It was as though Apple was facing off against the rest of the stock market today, and Apple won. After an early morning triple digit loss in the Dow, stocks led by Apple climbed all the way back into positive territory by the end of the trading session. It...

Friends  Despite blowout earnings from Apple, a hot ADP employment number and a constructive economic outlook from the Fed, stocks coughed up early gains and drifted without much direction into the close. The FOMC release, as expected did not include an increase in...