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If you drive a gas powered automobile, I'm willing to bet that your recent visits to the pump were pleasantly surprising. Crude oil has dropped nearly 20 percent over the last few months and reached a 27-month low on Wednesday night of $80.52 a barrel. A good portion of this recent pullback in oil p...

One of the best things about fall in upstate New York is apple season! Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Honey Crisp, Gala - you name it, we have it. However, there is a different kind of apple making headlines. Apple Inc. has positioned itself not only as a trend setter in the technology industry but ha...

After last week's continued volatility, market experts on financial websites and television networks have been predicting where the markets are headed. Those predictions vary greatly and, at any point, you could see headlines similar to: "The deja-vu selloff is reaching a crisis bottom", "This has b...

Please pardon the interruption to our regularly scheduled programming, but the recent market activity has issued me a call to arms. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as of this writing, are officially in negative territory year-to-date, both down roughly 8% since their September peak...

The main reason that people plan for anything in life is to mitigate risk. We plan on how much gas we will need to reach our destination or else we may run out. We plan for how much money we will need to buy our weekly groceries or else we may go hungry. We plan for how much time we need to perform...

After a sharp decline Friday afternoon, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ suffered their worst weekly losses in over two years. For the week, the technology heavy NASDAQ was down 2.3%, the S&P was down 3.1%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 2.7%;this decline pushed the Dow into negative territ...

Many people have placed the majority of their savings into their 401k plans. So when you need cash, and the bank account funds are simply not sufficient or your investments are not providing the cash flow you need, it is extremely tempting to consider taking money from your hard earned 401k. Before...

Last Friday, markets were anxiously awaiting the release of the most recent jobs report. The Labor Department reported that, outside of the farm sector, the U.S. added 248,000 jobs in September well ahead of market expectations of 215,000 jobs added. Unemployment fell from 6.1% down to 5.9%; this de...

It's football season again and September and October are the most dangerous months for the stock markets. The crashes of 1929, 1987, and 2008 all began in those months. Does that have anything to do with football? No; but it does give me an opportunity to prove that correlations don't prove causatio...

After 20 seasons in the major leagues, Derek Jeter, the New York Yankees shortstop and longtime captain will retire. He played his final game at Yankee Stadium last Thursday in what was surely a storybook ending. After the Yankees blew the lead, Jeter played the hero, again; he knocked in the game-...