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Treading Water in Porfolio’s

Tim McPartland | November 15, 2014
After a week of the S&P 500 simply moving sideways and interest rates pretty much just hanging out around 2.35% (10 year treasury) our portfolio's have done just the same.  As we survey all of our holdings it would seem that we should not expect much portfolio movement to the upside anytime soon.  Certainly there are 'black swan' events out…

Crude Oil Hammered Hard – MLP’s Not so Much

Tim McPartland | November 13, 2014
Today crude oil prices started off weak today - down 50 cents or so before going into freefall around 11 am when it was announced that over 9 million barrels of oil daily were produced daily last week--the most in at least 31 years.  Some analysts claim that production will continue to grow in the months ahead.  With West Texas…

US shale pioneers circle the wagons

Tim McPartland | November 12, 2014

Interest Rates Continue at Low Levels

Tim McPartland | November 12, 2014
So the FED has ended the latest QE program and there has been little to no reaction from interest rates.  No giant surprise here--QE didn't do much to begin with so no real reason why ending it would cause a big uproar.  Of course when the end of QE was hinted at anytime in the last 18 months equity markets…
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