Despite another harrowing decline in the banking sector last week, the overall stock market has been holding up rather well, considering the circumstances.
Many analysts thought the worst of the banking crisis was behind us, but Citigroup and Bank of America reminded us last week that all is not well in the land of lending. [...]

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While stock markets are down, there may be one market where you can actually make some money.
Collapsing real estate prices helped lead us into the current recession and the government realizes that stabilizing real estate prices may be one key to pulling us out of the recession. Accordingly, the government is doing what it [...]

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With 2008 in the history books, we’ll use this week’s commentary to review some of the key stories over the past year. As you well know, it was not one of the market’s finest performances.
STOCKS SUFFERED MIGHTILY
Global stock markets shed about $30 trillion dollars in market value over the past 12 months. Of that, about [...]

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