Hello, I’m Ken Moraif, Senior Retirement Planner at Retirement Planners of America, and this is our weekly video update for the week ending Friday the 13th, December 2019. And this week, the market was very happy. We got some great information to hang our hat on. The major news, of course, was Phase 1, or the aversion of the increased tariffs against China. That was all taken with great alacrity.
But I’ll tell you that as of my recording of this video,
Hello. It’s time for our weekly market alert video update. This one is for the weekend of December 6, 2019, and we got a lot of very good news on the economy: 266,000 new jobs created, 3 percent unemployment rate. These are the best employment numbers that we may have ever seen, and it’s very, very good news for the stock markets because obviously if people have jobs then in theory they should spend some money and if they do then companies that sell them the stuff they buy should make profits and if their profits go up,
Hello, I’m Ken Moraif, Senior Retirement Planner at Retirement Planners of America and this is our weekly recap for the week ended November 8, 2019 and again, it feels like I’m being repetitive every week, but the two drivers seemed to continue to be the Federal Reserve and the China talks and all this going on with the trade war.
So, let’s discuss those. The Fed may be done lowering interest rates.
Hello, I’m Ken Moraif, Senior Retirement Planner at Retirement Planners of America, and this is our weekly video market review for the weekend of November 1st, 2019, and it was a very solid week. The markets enjoyed several data points. Two of the most important, of course, were the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates, and then the jobs numbers that came in on Friday were very, very good and so the overall picture seems to be that the United States economy is in good shape and investors found that to be a good thing and appeared to have put their money to work and we saw a strong rise in the market.
Hello, I’m Ken Moraif, Senior Retirement Planner at Retirement Planners of America, and I come to you from the beautiful Holiday Inn Express in Orlando, Florida. I am here in Florida playing at the Men’s 40 and over Tennis National Championships and, unfortunately, we lost in the first round to Northeastern but I’m here to report to you about the week ended October 25 and, as they say, the show must go on So,
