Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was up 2.6%. Today, the Federal Reserve raised rates, three quarters of percent, Chairman Powell came out and said some things the market really liked, which is, for example, that they are seeing some of the weakness that’s happening in the economy, they still
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday, the S&P 500 was down 1.1%. Today really got off to a slow start in the morning due to what happened with the earnings report from Walmart last night, and just continued to have trouble all day long, we did get some good reports from companies like
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: What is a benchmark? You know, what are some of the big standard ones? And how do I make sure I’m using the right benchmark for my investments to evaluate its performance? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so that’s, you know, what is a stock or bond market benchmark? It basically comes up quite
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Monday, the S&P 500 was up point one 3%. Today, this is probably one of the busiest weeks of the year in terms of all the different reports that we’re going to get. So just after hours here, WalMart reported, their stock dropped at the moment 8%. Because what
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I feel I missed my window to sell my house at the peak and move, should I wait until rates go back up? Or rates come back down and housing prices come back up? Or does this even matter? Am I trying to really min max in a situation where I don’t
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I’d like to start off the show each week with a summary of what I saw happening in the market. And I’m also going to answer a question right now, too, that I’ve been getting from clients and some of the strategy sessions that I have, which is essentially: The market is
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Thursday, the S&P 500 was up 1%. Today, great update all together, we had a couple of gapped down days that happened in the middle of June, when they announced the, you know, CPI number at that time and the Federal Reserve, you know, surprised everybody by doing
Transcript: Easan Aruanantham: I’ve always thought about retirement at 65. And I’ve kind of got stuck to that age. But now that I’m in my late 50s, I’m starting to think about what if I retire early? Or what if I retire late? What would that effect be on my retirement? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was up point 6%. Today, interesting day in that the NASDAQ and the Small Cap stocks actually did the best. And the reason this is interesting is because what we saw Friday and Monday was the stocks that had the highest short interest do
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Recession causes oil use to go down. And inflation causes commodities, like oil, gold and silver to rise – this is also true. But what wins when you’re kind of playing them against each other? What are your thoughts on that? Tom Vaughan: Okay, so oil hit $130 A barrel after the