Business & Real Estate
Don't overlook the risk in your investments
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Investment companies and the financial media generally spend most of their time focused on returns and other benefits of the various investment opportunities they recommend.
Yet when it comes to communicating the risks associated with those investments, the industry is a lot less forthcoming, according to Larry Doyle, author of “In Bed with Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Timing the stock market proves futile
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- Written by Clyde Noel
Stocks moved higher Friday, with the Dow Jones industrial average within striking distance of all-time closing highs of 16,576.66 and the S&P 500 in record territory of 1,866.66. Anything above those levels would be a good reason to review your portfolio.
Of course, the bears have no shortage of reasons to be pessimistic, as they will claim that stock prices are unusually high relative to corporate earnings and stocks will suffer when profit margins revert to normal.
Timing the stock market proves futile
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- Written by Clyde Noel
Stocks moved higher Friday, with the Dow Jones industrial average within striking distance of all-time closing highs of 16,576.66 and the S&P 500 in record territory of 1,866.66. Anything above those levels would be a good reason to review your portfolio.
Of course, the bears have no shortage of reasons to be pessimistic, as they will claim that stock prices are unusually high relative to corporate earnings and stocks will suffer when profit margins revert to normal.
Transactions
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Los Altos
101 2nd Street #10, P. Wood to S. Fong for $890,000
38 3rd Street #106, Aasen Trust to S. & M. Firme for $805,000
Transactions
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- Written by Los Altos Town Crier Staff
Los Altos
101 2nd Street #10, P. Wood to S. Fong for $890,000
38 3rd Street #106, Aasen Trust to S. & M. Firme for $805,000
No slowing down : First Street hardware store owners celebrate 30 years in Los Altos
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Henry and Sue Nesmith, pictured with daughter Christina, are celebrating Los Altos True Value Hardware’s 30-year anniversary. The couple was inspired to open their own hardware store after learning how to flip houses while in college.
For Sue and Henry Nesmith, the seeds that led to the founding of Los Altos True Value Hardware can be found in a fixer-upper Menlo Park house, of all things.
Quiet markets can determine decisions
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- Written by Clyde Noel
The old Wall Street adage “Never short a quiet market” seems to be working, because we didn’t get anywhere with daily buys and sells last week. Large trading volume usually signals a rally to buy or sell.
Broadcaster and financial analyst Jim Cramer agrees that when the stock market looks horrible, resist the urge to sell. Selling into weakness is anything but strategic, according to Cramer, and sellers ultimately regret their decision.
