December 27, 2010
in 2010, December, NASDAQ, NYSE, TSX, banks, holidays, market reports, news and updates, special dates, stock exchanges
Stock markets reopen this year on a Wednesday. Whenever Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fall on Friday and Saturday or Sunday, the usual holidays are already taken up by the weekend. This means that many Federal institutions and businesses will declare an extra two days of holiday right after the weekend.
These extra holidays have occurred in [...]
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December 3, 2010
in 2010, December, FOMC, Federal Reserve, QE, US debt, US economy, USD, central banks, economy, indicators, inflation, money supply, news and updates, stimulus
Apparently the late-Friday surge in stock markets might have been due to the possibility that “the Ben Bernanke” will intimate the possibility of higher levels of QE2 than initially indicated. More than $600 billion in Treasury purchases by June 2011, in other words.
Reuters caught sight of a report on the CBS website indicating that Bernanke [...]
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The Santa Claus Rally is the historic seasonality that occurs in the stock markets around Christmas and New Years. From about the 8th last trading day in December through the first three trading days in January, there has traditionally been fairly reliable upward swings in the markets, usually delivering positive returns.
According to Martin Roberge of [...]
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December 21, 2009 · 4 comments
in December, Financial New Year, discipline, estates, finances, financial planning, goals, holidays, lifestyle design, money decisions, networth, portfolio, wealth protection, wealthbuilding
It’s a good time to draw up some financial New Year’s resolutions if you haven’t yet. Sure – don’t call them New Year’s resolutions if you don’t want to – it’s a financial plan for 2010 that I’m really talking about.
Although we are still in the thick of the holiday season, take a quiet day [...]
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December 16, 2009 · 3 comments
in December, financial planning, happiness, health, holidays, lifestyle design, money decisions, purchases, special dates, spending
Congratulations on opting for a minimalist Christmas, or at least thinking about how to have a clutter-free Christmas. If you’re like me and appreciate minimalism, but you also love giving gifts – you just need to find a way to buy or make gifts that don’t sit around and collect dust for the next three [...]
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November 30, 2009
in December, Financial New Year, holidays, investing, market timing, market trends, seasonal investing, special dates, stock picks, stocks
It’s the end of November and another month has passed us by. The seasonal correction in the stock markets never really happened this year, along with other traditional seasonal trends that failed to confirm. Then again, this past year has been one of the more unusual for markets since the Great Depression. For example, the [...]
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