A good offense will get you ahead, but many believe that defense wins championships. Super Bowl 45 pits the two top defenses against each other for the first time since 1982. How do you think it will end? Take our poll...
Life here in northeast Wisconsin just got a whole lot warmer! In case you haven’t heard, The Green Bay Packers are headed back to the Super Bowl after a smash-mouth dispatching of the rival Chicago Bears on Sunday afternoon. But instead of a high-scoring affair as had been the case in Atlanta the previous week [...]
A solid fourth quarter in the markets and in all Appleton Group Portfolios has set the stage for the New Year. For much of the past three months there have existed sustained rising price trends for all market segments in which we invest, including U.S. equities (both dividend-paying and pure growth), emerging foreign markets, real [...]
Since the elections back in early November, two market-related events stand out: First, practically every at-risk asset in the marketplace (such as domestic and foreign equities, real estate, commodities, etc.) has demonstrated a strengthening, rising price trend. Second, the fuel for this advancing market has come at the expense of most fixed-income assets (particularly federal [...]
Following a strong Republican showing in Tuesday’s elections and the Federal Reserve’s unveiling of further easing measures, the markets have responded in a very positive way. In fact, since the end of September the S&P 500 has put in a nice showing, rising a total of 4.91% through Wednesday’s close. Today’s strong market action is [...]
The Markets The market volatility continues over these summer months with triple digit moves both up and down being the norm. The S&P 500 Index, a useful gauge for the markets as a whole, has moved back to near breakeven for the year which is at the mid-point of its 2010 range. In late April [...]
The Markets On the heels of a tough month of May, stocks continued to slide through much of June. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which declined by -7.9% during May, shed an additional -3.2% in the first week of June but rebounded +6.5% over the next nine sessions. During this period, the Dow traded on [...]
The Markets May proved to be a rough month for the bulls as the global markets suffered their worst monthly percentage losses since February 2009. Coming into the month, all major market segments were continuing to produce slow steady gains. But it was largely downhill for the month as the markets closed lower on fourteen [...]
The Markets The markets continued their slow and steady rise in April as most of the major averages posted advances for the month. On the heels of a solid March, the Dow Jones Industrial Average charged ahead setting nine new recovery highs for the month. Despite a retreat in the waning days of April, the [...]
The Markets Stocks renewed their upward bias during March as most of the major averages posted new recovery highs to round out the quarter. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which closed just below 10,000 on February 8th (DJIA – 9906.39), finished higher on eighteen of the next twenty-three sessions. While the run of winning days [...]
