Thought Leadership Archive
This week, the Federal Reserve surprised no one and disappointed everyone when it cut the overnight rate by 25 basis points (0.25%). Investors had fully expected it. They had NOT expected the relatively hawkish tone of…
Listen to the full episode, here. John Norris (00:30): Well, hello again everybody. This is John Norris, a trading perspective. As always, we have a good friend, Sam Clements. Sam, say hello. Sam Clement (00:36): Hey…
At 1:00 pm CST on December 18, the Federal Reserve announced the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had decided to cut the target overnight rate by 25 basis points (0.25%). This will take the upper band…
If nothing else, the events of the last couple of years have taught me that American investors apparently don’t bother to read the headlines any longer. I mean, how else can you explain the stock market’s…
Listen to the full episode here. John Norris (00:30): Well, hello again everybody. This is John Norris at Trading Perspectives. As always, we ever good friends, Sam Clement. Sam, say, hello, Sam Clement (00:42): Hi John.…
Just about everyone is probably familiar with the movie Field of Dreams. As you know, it is a better-than-average ghost story about a farmer, Ray Kinsella, in Iowa, who builds a baseball field on his farm.…
My first professional employer was a firm in Baltimore by the name of Mercantile Bankshares (MSD&T). In the early to mid-1990s, it was what you might call the “white shoes” bank and trust department in town,…
Listen to the full episode, here. John Norris (00:29): Well, hello again everybody. This is John Norris at Trading Perspectives. As always, we have our good friends, Sam Clements. Sam, say hello. Sam Clement (00:35): Hi…
Last night, I went to Winn-Dixie to get mouthwash and toothpaste. Nothing more. By the time I got to the checkout line, I had a 16-lb. frozen Butterball turkey, 4 boxes of Kraft Velveeta shells &…
Here we are, over a week later. The world has not stopped revolving. The sun has continued to rise in the East. No one has paved the streets with gold. In fact, not much has changed…