Tom’s Thoughts on a Down Market Effect on Bonds Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: So how do I protect my fix? Are my bonds and my bond investments? Should I, you know, should I be looking to change how my duration or something like that to protect myself? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, because the one part that’s going
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday, the S&P 500 was down .2%. Today, I really want to talk about I think the thing that we all should be focusing on the most right now, which is inflation. Is it going to happen, or is it not going to happen? Because it makes a
Transcript: Katie Nealis: Why are interest rates rising right now? Tom Vaughan: Oh, that’s a good question. The really we’re seeing, in fact, if you go back to that, let me share that again, because that’s a good question. Here we go. Here’s the leading economic indicators. Look, oops, sorry, look at what has happened
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Monday. The S&P 500 was up 1% today, and what was really spectacular about today was just how much was up. Almost every index was up, oil was up the interest rates on the treasuries went down, which means the price went up. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies went up,
Tom and Easan talk about Age Milestones on the Road to Retirement Transcript: Katie Nealis: So we have another question in here from Lorraine, asking, Are there any particular age milestones I should be thinking about, like age 50, 60, etc, when planning my retirement? Tom Vaughan: Well, in terms of planning, retirement, you know,
Tom Talks about Dollar Cost Averaging Transcript: Katie Nealis: We have a question in from Terrell saying I have a lot of cash to invest and am unsure of if I should invest it all at once. Do you have a strategy for doing partial investment periodically? Tom Vaughan:Yeah, I think what what you’re talking
Tom Explains Market Indicators Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: So you talked about indicators can kind of give a basic understanding of what’s like a leading versus like a lagging indicator. Tom Vaughan: Yeah, that’s they have like three different levels. Matter of fact, you can kind of see this is the leading one, and then this
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Well, hello, everybody, welcome to Friday, the S&P 500 was down .08% today. We had another week where actually the indexes were down for the second week in a row. We’re about 5% or so off of the high that was established earlier. And so there’s, obviously some concern about what’s happening
Tom’s Thoughts on a Potential Market Crash Transcript: Katie Nealis: So the first question we have is, is the stock market going to crash this year? Tom Vaughan: Okay, that’s a good question. Actually, it came in earlier this week, you know, we’ve had a lot of volatility in this month, and markets down maybe
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Well, hello, everybody, welcome to Thursday, the S&P 500 was up 1.06%. Today, snapping a three day losing streak, actually lots of green on the charts today. The Nasdaq was up almost 1.8%. Today, which has really been lagging behind up until us really early this week in the last few days.