Ryan Hastie, Portfolio and Retirement Plan Analyst |

U.S. stocks finished last week on a high note, with the Dow finishing Friday up 400 points, or 1.26%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also rallied, up 1.36% and 1.28%

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Bill Hastie |

Investors cheered last Friday with a monster rally fueled in part by Apple reporting strong third-quarter earnings.  The Dow surged 828.50 points, or 2.59%, the

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Bill Hastie |

Stock prices rallied last week as corporate earnings gave investors a hope of better things to come, capped off with a major rally on Friday.  On the day, the

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Bill Hastie |

Last Thursday’s huge rally certainly did not start out that way.  In the minutes before September consumer price index (CPI) was announced at 5:30am PDT, Dow

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Melissa Martin, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Pilates Instructor |

Over the last 20 years, researcher Dan Buettner teamed up with National Geographic to study the people living the longest and healthiest across the globe

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Bill Hastie |

Soft economic data early last week raised hoped that the Federal Reserve (Fed) would soon pause its monetary tightening cycle in its battle to curb 40-year high

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Bill Hastie |

Last month certainly lived up to its historical reputation of extreme volatility.  For the month of September, the U.S. equity markets suffered serious losses

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Haley Hitchman |

Turbulent, volatile, tumultuous, and even chaotic can all be used to describe last weeks investment markets.  Not only the stock market but the bond market as

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Bill Hastie |

U.S. equity markets declined last week, primarily on Tuesday’s announcement of August CPI and core CPI and led to a more than 1,200-point drop on the Dow. 

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Melissa Martin, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Pilates Instructor |

Growing up in the Salinas Valley, I was very fortunate to see first hand how my food was grown and where it came from. Driving down Highway 68, I not only

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Bill Hastie |

Last week saw solid performance in U.S. equities, capped off with a strong rallies Thursday and especially Friday.  On Friday, the S&P 50 gained 1.57%, its

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Bill Hastie |

U.S. stocks fell last Friday after strong labor-market data supported the case for the Federal Reserve to continue its pace of raising interest rates.  The

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