Topic: Frank Ingarra

Even Friday's drop essentially just erases Wednesday's 2.2% climb, says Jamie Cox, a managing partner at Harris Financial Group. Many individual investors are holding cash or fixed-income investments now, staying on the sidelines of the stomach-churning stock market and ...
After a month of choppy trading, U.S. stock investors were thankful to see February finish in positive territory.  The month's modest gains were the best since November despite concerns about consumer spending, sovereign debt, and the pace of the global ...
Stocks in Asia closed mixed today; U.S. futures are pointing to a higher open.. Economists expect the first month of payroll growth since December 2007, following a loss of just 11,000 jobs in November. Last week, the Chicago Institute for ...
Asian stocks closed lower today; U.S. futures are pointing to a lower open.. A drawdown of inventories is typical for this time of year, and cold weather should lead to another drop this week, says Allen Good, an energy analyst at ...

What's Up With Consumers' Wallets?

Stocks in Asia closed higher; futures in the U.S. are pointing toward a higher open.. "If the U.S. consumer now has a pulse, that has very positive economic and investment implications", says Orlando. "We continue to believe that Christmas won ...

Is Volatility Making a Comeback?

For starters, look to the dollar, say some market watchers. The market now is rising and falling in inverse relationship to the dollar, says Jamie Cox, managing partner of Harris Financial Group. If those traders start to see signs of volatility in ...