Financial Markets Commentary

07/05/2015   July 2015 - Mid Year Review for Investors

05/02/2015   Be Vigilant - not Paranoid - about CyberSecurity

04/03/2015   US Stocks Eke Out Modest Gain of 0.3% in First Quarter

03/09/2015   The 6th Anniversary of 676

02/16/2015   The Fabulous Future of Heron Financial Group


02/01/2015   US Economy Buoyant, but Stock Market Deflates

01/01/2015   2014 - The Year in Review for Investors

11/04/2014   US Stocks Score 35 Record Highs So Far in 2014

10/15/2014   The CNN Fear and Greed Index hits "Extreme Fear" (but we're not selling...)

10/10/2014   Rocking the Lifeboat - Comments on the Recent Stock Market Volatility


09/22/2014   "Wait and See" for Alibaba

08/18/2014   David Edwards on WSJ: Soothing Nervous Investors in a Downturn

08/02/2014   US Stocks Make 31 Record Highs in 2014

04/13/2014   US Stock Markets Surprisingly Steady - First Quarter Review

04/04/2014   5 Steps to Manage an Inheritance


02/04/2014   Heron Financial Group Doubles Assets in Two Years

02/01/2014   10 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back! Comments on January Stock Market

01/02/2014   David Edwards explains how to stress test technology clients' portfolios

11/13/2013   David Edwards discusses the economy with Mary Jane Popp, KAHI

10/17/2013   United States Debt Default Averted - For Now


10/14/2013   US House Republicans Determined to Burn Country to the Ground...

09/19/2013   US Stock Markets Reach Record Highs as Fed Remains Accommodative

06/21/2013   [Bulletin] Do not be concerned by the recent market pullback

04/15/2013   [Bulletin] Two Explosions at Boston Marathon

03/21/2013   Happy Clients; Terrified Prospects


01/22/2013   David Edwards on Bloomberg projects 8% gains for 2013 in S&P; 500

10/30/2012   Hurricane Sandy Update

09/17/2012   If you're a partisan Republican, skip this commentary

08/08/2012   "Fear Factor" still high among US investors

07/06/2012   Investors fret about Europe, but US stocks up 8.6% on the year


06/13/2012   David Edwards on "Why Investors are so afraid!"

06/13/2012   David Edwards on Bloomberg forecasts next week's Presidential Election

06/06/2012   May Rout Leads to June Rally

05/07/2012   US Presidential Election Half-Time Report

04/04/2012   David Edwards discusses "Purpose Based Asset Allocation"


02/14/2012   US Stocks Due for a Pause After Big 5 Month Rally

02/14/2012   Heron Financial Group | Wealth Advisors enters 20th year of business

01/26/2012   Will I be able to retire ever? Answers to our clients' #1 question!

01/04/2012   David Edwards discusses "The Economic Costs of the Destruction of Trust"

12/10/2011   2011: The Year in Two Headlines


11/18/2011   Behavioral Finance (why watching CNBC won't make you rich)

10/12/2011   How to Visualize your Personal Balance Sheet

09/20/2011   Talking our way to recession!

08/15/2011   Driving Buffalo over a Cliff!

08/05/2011   Bulletin: US Stocks down sharply on S&P; downgrade


08/05/2011   Buy stocks like cans of tuna fish!

07/25/2011   Data Points from Nantucket Island

06/21/2011   High net worth families still "scared to death" of stocks

05/10/2011   What is the greatest investment risk?...

03/18/2011   Backgammon as a Model for Stock Investing


02/22/2011   David Edwards predicts 10% sell-off for US stocks

02/07/2011   Why the US employment situation matters more than any other indicator...

01/31/2011   Recognition from Advisor Perspectives

01/10/2011   What to expect in 2011

12/30/2010   Pessimism was not the winning bet in 2010


11/30/2010   Investment lessons from the 1983 Diana Ross concert riot

10/08/2010   Why US stocks are surging despite anemic economic news

08/18/2010   Housing, state spending and jobs - bogeymen for rest of 2010

06/04/2010   The Parable of the Lifeboat

07/14/2010   It's always darkest before the dawn (of earnings reports)


05/08/2010   Brushwood is to forest fires as leverage is to financial crises

04/28/2010   Wall Street Journal interview

04/17/2010   Single dip or double dip recession? Facts favor the first scenario

03/19/2010   Useful frameworks for investment analysis

02/09/2010   Trust, illusion, values and the death of "common sense"


01/22/2010   Investors rattled by 5% sell-off in three days

01/03/2010   The psychology of why investors "Buy High/Sell Low," and avoiding that trap

12/21/2009   Running out the clock on the year...and the decade!

11/17/2009   The Alphabet Soup Of Recession Recovery

10/19/2009   The month that nearly broke the world financial system


09/15/2009   One year after Lehman Brothers' demise, world markets spookily calm

08/25/2009   US stocks up 53% from March 9th low, still 42% below record high

07/06/2009   Stocks rest in June after the biggest quarterly return of the last 10 years

05/02/2009   Continuing stock rally lifts S&P; 500 29.7% from March 9th low

04/03/2009   Rally in financials leads US stocks to best monthly return since October 2002


03/05/2009   Collapse of bank stocks drives US stock market to 12 year lows

02/02/2009   New Year's rally fizzles on economic woes

01/02/2009   US stocks rise modestly in December, deliver worst annual return since 1937

12/04/2008   US stocks set 11 year low, rally 17% in closing week of November

11/13/2008   US stocks retest lows for 2008 but close sharply higher

 

11/03/2008   World stocks set October low, rally in closing week

10/24/2008   US Stocks set to open down 6-7%

10/09/2008   Significance of late market sell-off

10/07/2008   Update regarding the European banking crisis

09/22/2008   Reflections on a turbulent week

 

09/15/2008   Reflections on a turbulent week

09/10/2008   The Significance of Recent Stock Market Volatility

09/01/2008   Oil down, Dollar up, Financials stabilizing

08/04/2008   Housing woes spread to Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac

07/15/2008   US Stocks set to slide at the open to fresh 2008 lows

 

07/01/2008   Eye of the hurricane!

06/10/2008   Calm after the storm, or eye of the hurricane?

05/05/2008   Credit crisis dissipates

04/05/2008   Credit crisis obliterates Bear Stearns

03/12/2008   Federal Reserve acts to break bearish market psychology

 

03/03/2008   Perception & Reality

02/04/2008   Volatile January ends on an up-beat

01/21/2008   Closer to bear market - closer to the next rally

01/15/2008   Correction to Bear Market? What are the risk factors?

01/04/2008   Challenging end to a challenging year

 

12/06/2007   November 2007 was the worst month for our strategy since September 2001.

11/08/2007   What the heck is going on out there!

10/02/2007   Investing through October

08/13/2007   European and US markets slammed by the news

07/30/2007   What do home-owners and hedge funds have in common?

 

07/01/2007   Percentage forecasts for 2007 stock market gains

04/05/2007   First quarter stock markets look choppy

02/27/2007   Liquidity is the chief factor to watch

01/02/2007   Technology does best when the economy is expanding rapidly

10/01/2006   Forecast for growth remains respectable 9%

 

08/10/2006   What will it take to get stocks moving again?

07/01/2006   Stock market overall stays cheap

06/09/2006   Fed Policy feels like Chinese water torture

05/19/2006   Intrigued by alternative energy companies

04/01/2006   Opinion: Current economic expansion is only in the 5th inning

 

01/19/2006   Recommended 27 companies for this year's themes

01/01/2006   Investors will recognize: Stock market remains undervalued