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Conclusion The U.S. stock market finished out the final quarter of 2010 with an impressive double-digit gain.  Encouraging GDP data, more Federal Reserve intervention, and the extension of tax cuts helped drive the rally. Despite the stock market’s strong year, the U.S. economy still faces significant headwinds.  Millions of Americans are still out of work, [...]

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Despite mixed economic data, the U.S. stock market witnessed a strong rally in the third quarter.  Thanks to an unusually strong September, the U.S. market is back into positive territory for the year. After a weak second quarter, the market posted a strong rally in the third quarter.  The market set aside fears about the [...]

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Despite the wild ride, investors should toast the markets in 2009 Investors received welcome relief from the markets rally.  Many areas of the market that fared poorly in 2008 bounced back in 2009.  U.S. equities turned in two of their biggest quarterly returns in over a decade, while corporate bonds had one of their best [...]

 Macroeconomic Conditions Data from a number of countries have provided an improving picture of the world economy.  As Credit Suisse’s chief economist Neal Soss noted, the world economy is doing better than it was doing a few months ago, but is still far from doing well.  In other words, almost all macroeconomic variables have stopped [...]