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Colorado West Investments wrote a new post, What Fiscal Cliff? 5 months, 3 weeks ago
What fiscal cliff?
Stock prices rose last week to their best weekly gain in five months as investors cheered the start of the holiday shopping season, encouraging economic data from Germany and China, improved […] -
Colorado West Investments wrote a new post, Lasting Lessons from October 1987 7 months ago
October 22, 2012
Twenty-five years later, are there any lasting lessons from the October 1987 stock market crash?
You may recall that on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 22.6 […] -
Colorado West Investments wrote a new post, Encouraging, but still lackluster – Market Commentary 7 months, 2 weeks ago
That’s how one analyst described the September jobs report released last Friday by the Labor Department. On the encouraging side, the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since January 2009 and the […]
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Colorado West Investments wrote a new post, I am the Federal Reserve, hear me roar. 8 months ago
September 18, 2012
I am the Federal Reserve, hear me roar.
Printing dollars in numbers too big to ignore.
With an apology to Helen Reddy for paraphrasing her early 1970’s anthem, the Federal Reserve […] -
Colorado West Investments wrote a new post, Unfortunately, it’s not that simple 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Despite disappointment that central banks in the U.S. and Europe offered no new stimulus programs last week, the U.S. stock market rose for the fourth straight week – thanks to one piece of government news, […]
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Colorado West Investments wrote a new post, Margaret Thatcher Had It Right 10 months ago
June 25, 2012
While nobody knows what the future holds, one powerful person came pretty close to accurately predicting the problems Europe is having with the euro – a full 17 years before the current crisis […] -
Colorado West Investments wrote a new post, U.S. Economy Faces Two Main Risks 10 months ago
The man with his finger on the pulse says the U.S. economy faces two main risks. We have no control over one of those risks and the other, well, we do have some control, but whether our politicians will […]
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Colorado West Investments wrote a new post, Guest Commentary – Weekly Market Update 1 year, 1 month ago
When in doubt, blame it on the weather.
It’s human nature to want to ascribe a reason to everything that happens in the world. Rather than feeling like it’s all random, we always want to know why the market went […]
