Pacific Park Financial Inc.

Price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios have been rising over the course of the four-and-a-half year bull market. It follows that there are fewer and fewer bargains. Indeed, a quick screen at Morningstar...

Americans are at it again. They are becoming wide-eyed at the prospect of real estate riches, convinced by media cheer-leading that the 2007-2009 collapse in home prices was a once-in-a-century...

If one focused his/her attention solely on year-to-date performance, he/she might eschew foreign stock ETFs altogether. With the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (SPY) and the iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 (IJH)...

Stocks as an asset class have shrugged off a wide variety of risks throughout the year. Sequestration failed to derail equity enthusiasm. The May-June interest rate spike did little to deter...

A do-it-yourself investor would be wise to track institutional money. Are there surprising, or not so surprising, moves that advisers make via their block trades? Often, the activity will give you the...

It has been five trading days since “no-taper” euphoria has passed. In that time, U.S. stock assets have been falling, though the declines have been modest. Most investors continue to...

The United States government is in the process of debating both a budget as well as a debt ceiling increase. Neither Republicans in the House of Representatives nor the president himself appears eager...

Warren Buffett and Berkshire (BRK.A) colleagues are publicly complaining about the absence of stock bargains. What they should be saying is that broad-based equity investors were wrong to cheer the...

The Math of Investing –If you were asked to choose between two investments – Asset X, which has an average annual performance of 10% over the past 10 years, or Asset Y, which has an...

According to Gallup, consumer spending dropped 15% from mid-August and it has been flat since the Federal Reserve’s tapering talk in May. Casual dining expenditures declined 3.5% in July as well...

Consider the golfer who focuses all of his game-improving efforts on hitting from the tee and the fairway. By ignoring the putter in his bag, he fails to improve at putting — an action that...

Stock Market Gurus -The tale of the “Tortoise and the Hare” is taught to us at a very early age for a very good reason. Slow and steady wins the race. Yet, the majority of investors forget...

Take a quick walk with me down Flashback Lane. The year is 2004. Homes, by most measures, are no longer affordable. Yet home prices did not peak until two years later in the early months of 2006.The...

For three weeks in late June and early July, the S&P 500 SPDR Trust ETF (SPY) lingered below a key 50-day trendline. Ultimately, SPY broke back above its moving average, and then rocketed to fresh...

How the Fed Has Influenced Stock and Bond Markets -Due to a swift rise in interest rates, conservative portfolios have recently experienced elevated levels of volatility – the kind of shakiness...

PowerShares DB U.S. Dollar Bullish (UUP) traded near $22.25 per share at the beginning of September, 2012. One year later, UUP trades near the same share price. In other words, over the course of the...