We have updated our projected Federal Reserve timeline based upon outtakes from the last Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting in September of 2014. As a result of what we know, based upon what the Fed has communicated and what …Read more
In this month’s Municipal Market Commentary, I talked about the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) and its decision to hold short term interest rates near zero percent for a “considerable time after the asset purchase program ends.” This has …Read more
As we are in the midst of the 2014 midterm election season, many investors are wondering what potential impact these elections will have on the stock market. Based upon our review of historical data related to stock market performance and …Read more
The S&P 500 Index (“S&P 500”) has decreased over 5% thus far in October (though still higher year-to-date thus far in 2014) as I write this post. Many investors have been long awaiting this type of a market pullback before …Read more
As many investors have been considering adding, or increasing, allocations to the Energy sector in 2014, energy-oriented Master Limited Partnerships (“MLPs”) have garnered a lot of attention. While MLPs are not a new investment vehicle (in fact the first MLP …Read more