Finance
It’s Earning Season and I’m getting the sense that members of the Doom and Gloom crowd aren’t as enthusiastic is some others may be. Of the 334 companies that have reported to date for the fourth quarter (Q4 2012), 72% have reported earnings above estimates. This percentage remains above the average of 69% recorded […]
Financial Insight: Politics and Government, Have They Both Gone Mad? Read More »
Here it is, February 2013, yes, February. Time flies, when you’re having fun, right? New month and guess what, the next self-created fiasco is upon us, the Sequester. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves, again and again? Maybe the Congress is actually composed of sadists and fetish lovers, who have some sort
Investment Advisor Dempster Cherry Asks What rhymes with Sequester? Read More »
Things haven’t gone as some had expected…. Ahh…the Davos Forum of 2013, held in Switzerland, where the oracles of all knowledge across world governments, economics, business and technology go to attend expensive soirees and bestow upon us Lilliputians what is going to happen in the year ahead. The powers of divination concluded their self-romancing spectacle
Dempster R. Cherry's Economic Advice Week of January 28, 2013 Read More »
Recently I had the opportunity to see Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-Award winning play by Bruce Norris, which ends its limited run at the San Diego Repertory Theatre Sunday, February 10, 2013. When I first read the storyline, it brought back childhood memories of my own family and being the first African American
Theatre Review: "Clybourne Park" Humorously Explores Race Relations and Class in America Read More »
The first week of 2013 was quite spectacular for the stock market. Gains ranged from just under 4% for the Dow Jones Industrials and to near 6% for the Russell 2000. The overseas market place also took part in the rally and posted gains, with several hitting new 52 week highs. Noise on the street has
The January Effect By: Dempster R. Cherry Read More »
We have traveled almost four years into the current stock market cycle that began in March 2009, with the S&P 500 up 114% since the bottom. That in itself is significant as historically market cycles of this magnitude are not very common, 2003 through 2007 were the most recent examples and we all
Financial Advice: Taking a step back to view the landscape… Read More »
Going down to the wire is business as usual in Washington D.C. Given that the implications of the “Fiscal Cliff” decisions will set the course for years to come; it’s important to get it correct, although some elected officials fear that the base will have them drawn and quartered because of
Financial Advice: Get it Done Before 2012 Ends Read More »
In my office on the wall, there are many items attached and displayed in the general per functionary manner. Upon this wall there are licenses, shingles, and commissions, slogans, pictures and calendars. But the most significant and obvious is a print of Dogs Playing Poker. Yes, dogs playing poker. Several dogs sitting around a
Financial Commentary: A Bold Bluff Read More »
By: Dempster R. “Bobby” Cherry Congress returned to work for a few days after the elections to begin ‘serious’ deliberations on the “fiscal cliff’ and other matters last week. This week they will be back on vacation recess. Pardon me while I clear my throat. Given that the country now has more clarity on
Financial Outlook: Cliff Hanger Read More »
With great fanfare, the big news of the week was that finally the Silly Season has ended; to the winners go the spoils, to the loser…soul searching. The election essentially unspoiled the status quo and now the frenzied media, realizing that there’s no real story to be had there anymore, shifted their attention immediately shifted
An Eye-Opening Moment By: Dempster R. Cherry Read More »