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News outlets are breathless, declaring, “The markets are up!”, “The markets are down!”, “The markets are volatile!”.

I yearn for the quaint old days of receiving the occasional email from a “Nigerian prince”, asking me to help him protect the riches of his country by accessing my bank account as a conduit to safety.

My last post was about the possible disconnect between the stock market (the price of the underlying companies) and the health of the economy (the value of those underlying companies).

The stock market bottomed around March 23rd. The Dow went from just shy of 30,000 to less than 19,000, an approximate 37% drop.

On Monday April 20th, 2020, the price of oil went negative for the first time in history. What does that mean?

Ben Bernanke served as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) through the financial crisis of 2007-2009.

Are investors catching their breath? Market volatility has been very high for the last couple of months, mostly on the down side.

The news about coronavirus surrounds us constantly. It’s easy to get emotional. I feel it, too.

As the US election nears, and fears around rising coronavirus cases increase, we have seen increased market volatility.

In a dramatic recovery, U.S. stocks posted their best quarterly results in more than 20 years leading a global rally that decreased year-to-date losses from the first quarter sell-off.