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The Dog Days of Summer and Employment Reports
Tim McPartland | September 4, 2015
Well so much for a few days of a reasonable tone to the stock and bond markets--or actually just the stock markets and the interest rate arena has been fairly well behaved for quite a few weeks now.With us now in the very deep dog days of summer with folks worried more about the coming holiday weekend than their investments…
B&G Foods Shoots Higher on Green Giant Purchase
Tim McPartland | September 3, 2015
B&G Foods---one of our common stock holdings, has shot higher today, by around $4/share, on the announcement that they would be purchasing the Green Giant Brand line of foods from General Mills.General Mills has been shopping the brand for most of this year and a sale price of $765 million seems to be darned good given the slow/no growth food…
Did I Sense a Change in Market Tone Today?
Tim McPartland | September 2, 2015
It would be foolish to believe that equity markets are going to turn around and race higher day after day for the next week or two, but today did seem to have a different 'feel' to it. There should be no mistake that the attitude and mood of buyers and sellers will affect prices and volatility on a day to…
Scary Markets, But Are You Hanging On? We are Doing the Best We Can Do
Tim McPartland | September 1, 2015
As much as anyone we realize the movements in the stock market, the last 10 days, have been pretty damned scary, but we also realize that a goal, preparation and common sense will carry an investor through the terror with somewhat of a minimal amount of damage. We know that through history (at least our history which would be back…
A Review of August – Hanging In and Hanging On
Tim McPartland | September 1, 2015
September 7, 2015It's time to review the performance of the various portfolios and see how they did during the most treacherous August that we have had in many a year.1st of all we review the relatively diversified 2015 Blended Income Model Portfolio. This portfolio had been up earlier in the year (in June) by as much as 4.75%---that gain is…
