Market Perspective

July 16, 2012

by Mark Carlton, CFA®

Market Perspective for 7/16/12

July Unemployment: Fourth consecutive disappointing report.  The trend is confirmed.  This is going to put pressure on the Federal...
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April 30, 2012

by Mark Carlton, CFA®

Follow-up on Benchmarks

In the 4Q12 Quarterly Perspective I wrote that benchmarks can be misleading.  I referred to the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial...
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April 12, 2012

by Mark Carlton, CFA®

Market Perspective for 4/12/12

Unemployment Friday’s report was disappointing.  A net gain of 120,000 jobs with no prior month upward revisions is bringing back the...
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February 14, 2012

by Mark Carlton, CFA®

Market Perspective for 2/14/12

The Economy The economy continues to improve, if slowly.  243,000 new jobs were created last month, continuing the positive trend. ...
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January 12, 2012

by Mark Carlton, CFA®

Market Perspective for 1/12/12

Last Friday’s unemployment report was stronger than expected.  200,000 new jobs were created last month, and the overall unemployment...
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December 16, 2011

by Mark Carlton, CFA®

Market Perspective for 12/16/11

The Federal Reserve met Tuesday and decided not to do anything.  They were probably influenced by a slightly better employment report...
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November 1, 2011

by Mark Carlton, CFA®

Market Perspective for 11/1/11

Economically, not all that much happened in October.  On September 30th the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) said that we were...
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September 15, 2011

by Mark Carlton, CFA®

Market Perspective for 9/15/11

I've been trying to put my arms around the financial events of the past two weeks.  Clearly the employment picture in the United States...
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