What factors need to be in place for this to happen? What will it take for the housing market and employment to really improve? It really boils down to the two greatest economic factors of all: supply and demand. What needs to happen in the labor market? Ideally, a swift rise in consumer demand for [...]

A blip in the bull market? Or is more selling ahead? A look at some opinions. Sooner or later, a bull market experiences a correction: a decline of at least 10% from a peak. We’ve now seen the first correction in the present bull market: the Dow went below 10,000 on May 25 (and rebounded).1 [...]