John Lynch

The Federal Reserve is expected to maintain its target interest rate range at between 1.5% and 1.75% on Wednesday afternoon when it releases its post-meeting statement at 2 p.m. Investors will be watching for any surprise changes to rates and indications from the Fed about where rates could be...

The third-quarter reporting season has kickstarted, with the big banks turning in mixed results.  Notwithstanding muted expectations for the quarter, an analyst at LPL Financial is hopeful about the future. Little To Cheer In Q3  The third-quarter earnings season does not hold much...

Value stocks have underperformed growth stocks for over a decade, and 2019 is no exception. So far this year, the Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSE: VUG) is up 23.5%, while the Vanguard Value ETF (NYSE: VTV) is up just 13.7%. JPMorgan recently said value stocks are currently trading at their largest...

U.S. markets fell on Wednesday after the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell below the yield on 2-year Treasury notes on Wednesday morning for the first time since 2007. According to the San Francisco Fed, each of the nine U.S. recessions that have occurred since 1955 came between six months...

Markets have been on a steady retreat since the start of August, trimming some of the heady gains they witnessed this year. One analyst has broached the possibility of a pullback or a correction, said he's not overly worried in light of solid fundamentals. Keeping Up With Seasonality August...

The next FOMC meeting is now less than a week away, and investors are extremely confident an interest rate is coming. The stock market has a history of mixed returns following Fed rate cuts, but rate cuts that happen when the U.S. economy is not in a recession have historically been a major bullish...

Trade negotiations between the U.S. and China stalled last month, leaving investors with little insight on when to expect a potential trade resolution. DataTrek Research co-founder Nicholas Colas recently discussed the impact cultural differences between the U.S. and China may have on the...

The big news for investors this week is the two-day Federal Reserve meeting that kicked off Tuesday. The Fed is widely expected to raise interest rates for a final time Wednesday, but investors will be watching closely for what the Fed has to say about its outlook for 2019 and beyond. Long-Term...

U.S. stocks took a beating Tuesday after the yield on five-year Treasury notes dipped below the yield on three-year and two-year Treasury notes for the first time since 2007. Bank stocks were hit particularly hard, as fears that an inverted yield curve could be signalling a U.S. recession and a...

Now that the votes have been tallied from the midterm elections, investors are shifting their attention to what the fallout from the midterms will be for the stock market. The early returns on a divided Congress are positive, with the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) trading higher by 2...

After ending the Sept. 20 session at an all-time closing high of 2,930.75, the S&P 500 Index has pulled back by about 7 percent as worries concerning the midterm elections, the Sino-U.S. trade standoff and a rising rate environment push traders to the defensive. But redemption...

Last week’s massive two-day sell-off in stocks rattled investors. The experts are saying market fundamentals remain strong and investors should consider buying the dip; the latest numbers from TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD) suggest millennial investors are doing just that....

The bull market rally after the 2008 financial crisis has unquestionably been one of the longest and most powerful stock market rallies in history. But just how long and how powerful the bull market has been is somewhat open to interpretation. What's A Bull Market? The traditional...

The S&P 500 traded lower by more than 10 percent Wednesday morning as investors digest the latest developments in an ongoing Sino-American trade dispute.  Negotiations Sour On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump expressed skepticism about a potential trade deal with China, tweeting...

The current bull market turned nine years old Friday, and it seems appropriate to take a look back and see how far stocks have come since the S&P 500 hit a Financial Crisis low of 676.53 on March 9, 2009. The S&P itself has more than tripled in value, up about 207 percent in those six years...