Standard & Poor's S&P 500 Index is one of the traditional yardsticks used to measure performance in the stock market. But yet today, there are two very different S&P 500 Indices. The traditional S&P 500 Index is a "cap-weighted" index: the 50 largest...
This is a transcription of Quantitative Easing (QE3) Announced: Now What? Quantitative Easing (QE3) Announced: Now What? This is the transcription of the Mullooly Asset Management Podcast from September 19th, 2012. You can listen to the podcast by clicking the...
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This is the Podcast from September 19, 2012. In this podcast, Brendan questions Tom Mullooly about Quantitative Easing, QE3 and the role of the Federal Reserve in today's marketplace. The Federal Reserve announced massive action (a "game-changer" as Tom mentions)...
The New York State Deferred Compensation Plan (NYSDCP) Roth Option The NYSDCP (New York State Deferred Compensation Plan) Roth Option is a new retirement savings option available as of August 1, 2012 to all Port Authority and PATH employees. What this new feature...
Support Lines and Point and Figure Charts If you have seen my other video lessons on point and figure charts, you know that support lines often act like brick walls. And point and figure charts tend to drift down toward support lines and often (but not always) bounce...
Sir Isaac Newton was a pretty smart guy. Well, being a financial advisor, I can't vouch for that statement. But it's pretty well regarded he was a smart dude, just not the best investment manager. After all, the guy discovered the laws of motion and inertia. And the...
As a New Jersey Financial Advisor, I get a lot of calls from concerned investors about what to do in bear markets. In bear markets: during my time as a money manager, many times (but not always) we see HIGH volatility, violent moves, but -- ultimately -- we really see...
Please do not get hung up on the PRICE of Facebook stock. Focus on the VALUE of Facebook, as a company. Facebook stock was priced at $38 on the New York Stock Exchange. There were several folks in the the market who anticipated this to be a hot offering. But wait: at...
The Federal Reserve has announced they are "on-hold" through next year, and likely well into 2014. What kind of effect will that have on the stock market? Does that mean interest rates will stay low that entire time? Maybe not. The "bond market" will actually...
