Feb

10

Weekly Economic & Investment Recap: 2.8.08

February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended February 8, 2008.  Well, apparently, last week’s stellar equity market performance may have been more short-term aberration than long-term trend.  (So much for the “trend being your friend.”)   This week, some confusing economic releases combined with more […]

Feb

3

Weekly Economics & Investment Recap: 2.1.08

February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended February 1, 2008.  Continued weakness in housing (no problem).  Plunging consumer confidence (why worry?).  Growing unemployment (so what).  Poor earnings (big deal).  Record write-downs (no biggee).  After all, Dr. Bernanke has our backs.  Apparently, these days, the […]

Jan

25

And That’s The Week That Was: 1.25.08

January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended January 25, 2008.  Is the recession spreading abroad?  Could it possibly be nearing an end?  Do our domestic markets follow global ones or do theirs follow ours?  Does the Fed truly have the power to impact the […]

Jan

21

And That’s The Week That Was: 1.18.08

January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended January 18, 2008.  With virtually all investors calling for some pretty dismal earnings numbers from Citigroup and Merrill, the results were even worse than expected.  Enter more foreign governments with a continuation of the international “bailout”…talk about […]

Jan

14

And That’s The Week That Was: 1.11.08

January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended January 11, 2008.  Enough already!!!  Just when you thought news from the financial world could not get any worse…the staggering write-downs at major financial institutions continue to expand as do the needs for even more capital infusions […]

Dec

21

And That’s The Week That Was: 12.21.07

December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended December 21, 2007.  Is anyone out there?  Do folks work after market close on the day before Christmas Eve?  What if today was the start of the “Santa Claus rally” and nobody was around to notice?  These […]

Dec

14

And That’s The Week That Was: 12.14.07

December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended December 14, 2007.  So, which report was more widely read this week: the summary of the Fed’s policy meeting or the Mitchell report on steroid use in baseball?  While Dr. Bernanke probably had a better week than […]

Dec

7

And That’s The Week That Was: 12.7.07

December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended December 7, 2007.  This week, President Bush did his best Superman, Batman and even Underdog imitations (anyone know his motto?), by announcing a plan to “bail out” the most unsophisticated of subprime mortgage borrowers and many (greedy) […]

Dec

3

And That’s The Week That Was: 11.30.07

December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended November 30, 2007.  So what do Donald Kohn and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority have in common (besides that fact that most people had not heard of either before the week began)?  Well, this week the Fed […]

Nov

26

And That’s The Week That Was: 11.23.07

November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended November 23 2007.  Ready or not…here come the homestretch for 2007.  What looked to be a year of potentially double-digit gains for the equity indexes has suddenly turned into one in which investors hope their portfolios merely […]

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