Farmer aid, breakthroughs in trade, and the earnings parade all combined to motivate investor buying in area stocks. And that buying lifted sh…
“Astounding optimism” launched the week for investors, but growing pains remained a part of the picture, too. Our Quad-City Times Key 15 was l…
A look back and a look ahead, the dichotomy of investor focus, ruled stock markets last week. While investors could now put the first six mont…
International trade worries pressured stock averages, but Lee Enterprises’ star shined brightly.
Tit-for-tat tariff threats created investor caution last week. A full week of international trade tensions contributed heavily to a four-day m…
Farm combine sales are climbing nicely in 2018. It’s good for Deere and Deere employees here at their East Moline Harvester Works, which makes…
Nothing is more certain than change. We remind ourselves often. But in business, the demand for constant change in products and services to re…
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Investors sold stocks off on Tuesday, quickly moved to re-accumulate them on Wednesday, and worked to finish the holiday-shortened week from t…
Early excitement gave way to renewed caution by stock investors last week. Monday opened to reduced concern about US/China trade talks after w…
Learning to live with higher interest rates was investors’ agenda last week. And, they did pretty well.
They’re back. Investors returned to bid stocks higher last week. After finding stock prices had been pressured downward to attractive levels i…
Could business be “too good” for investors? That strange suspicion was part of what kept stock markets under selling pressure for much of last…
Facts trumped fears last week. A week that began with investors wondering about the sustainability of today’s economic growth and business gro…
Markets that started the week strong ran into investor indecision as the week progressed. Stronger economic reports and stronger corporate ear…
Tariff talk troubled investors …for a day. But, while most financial media continued with a full week of 24/7 conjecture on what possible tari…
The week started badly. Then, it got worse. Investors sent stock markets tumbling on Monday, then tumbling again Thursday as they continued to…
Bright economists that can also make economics understandable for television audiences are few. Among the few, undoubtedly, is Larry Kudlow, w…
Jobs aplenty. Jobs galore. Investors worried about the pros and cons of tariffs. But, they returned to celebrate jobs. Growing jobs and growin…
Despite reports of growing confidence among businesses and consumers, investors demonstrated little of that confidence last week. An impressiv…
A President’s Day shortened week opened to investors pausing, following a powerful prior week gain for our Quad-City Times Key 15. Investors w…
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“…we have raised our sales and adjusted-earnings forecasts…” — Sam Allen, Deere & Co, CEO
Profit-taking by investors continued for a second week, following the broad-based fifteen month uptrend in stock prices. Indeed, some of the r…
Investors paused and stocks pulled back last week. Following an amazing uptrend that has lifted broad market averages for weeks, stock investo…
Corporate profit reports were center stage in last week’s financial markets, each bringing insight into a just finished fourth quarter, and mo…
Investors struggled to reconcile two major forces in investment markets last week, resulting in constant direction changes in the four-day wee…
Investors continued to shop for stocks in 2018. Following an impressive week of accumulation in the year’s first week, investors paused briefl…
“Look,” said Dick. “See it go. See it go up.”
