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Fed Note
Fed Note The December meeting was again slated to be ‘the one’, as in the meeting where interest rate policy changed for the first time in a decade and almost exactly seven years after the fed funds rate was cut … Continue reading
Posted in Economic News
Tagged banks, bonds, clients, credit, december rate hike, economic growth, employmnet, equities, Fed, Federal Reserve, financial advisor, FOMC, Inflation, interest rate, Janet Yellen, pace of rates, rate hike, rates, tightening, US dollar, zero interest rate policy
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Chart of the Week: Your Client’s Investment Horizon
After shedding more than 1,000 points last week, the Dow Jones opened up Monday free-falling another 1,089, spreading panic throughout markets. These kinds of corrections cannot be predicted, however they are inevitable. The last time the market corrected (defined by … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged bonds, correction, financial, financial advisor, investment, investment horizon, Market, market correction, Portfolio, stocks
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FANN Radio – “Is Flat the New Up?” – 8/20/2015
Join Brad Kasper, President & CFO of LSA Portfolio Analytics, and Bud Kasper, President of Barber Financial Group, as they discuss the challenges faced after a market close that saw the S&P 500 lose over 2% and how it relates … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged bear market, bonds, China, Commodities, crude oil prices, DJIA, Dow Jones, ECB, Economic, economic data, economic growth, Employment, market pullback, Markets, S&P 500, stocks
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 8-03-2015 Economic data last week was highlighted by a lukewarm GDP report, mixed housing and consumer confidence surveys, but more positive near-term industrial reports. The FOMC meeting statement didn’t offer any radically new insights, as expectations for an initial rate hike … Continue reading
Posted in Economic News
Tagged 1st Quarter GDP, bonds, bps, China, Commodities, consumer confidence, consumer sentiment, CPI, Crude oil, crude oil prices, DJIA, ECB, Economic, economic data, economic growth, Economic Update, Emerging Markets, Employment, Europe, Eurozone, Fed, Federal Reserve, fixed income, FOMC, GDP, GDP 2nd quarter GDP, Government, Home Sales, Inflation, interest rate, interest rates, Janet Yellen, Japan, Jobless Claims, LSA, MSCI Europe, oil prices, Portfolio, Q/E, Real Estate, Retail Sales, Russia, S&P 500, S&P500, Taper, Ukraine, unemployment rate, Update, Yahoo!
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Chart of the Week: Benefits of Bank Loans in a Portfolio
Chart of the Week: Benefits of Bank Loans in a Portfolio Despite almost $36 billion exiting the loan market and negative net fund flows for the past 11 months, Lord Abbett believes that bank loans still have features that make them attractive … Continue reading
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Tagged bank loans, bonds, diversification, duration, fixed income, interest rate, lord abbett, Portfolio, rates, return, rising rate, rising rate environment, risk, yield
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