Just when we thought the market had set a low for 2011 (last Friday's close,) one more piece of bad news rocked US and world markets.
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Why the US employment situation matters more than any other indicator right now. Once a month on the first Friday, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the "Unemployment Situation" for the previous month.
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With less than 8 trading days remaining in 2009, we're pretty much sitting on our gains with our fingers crossed. About the only thing that could ruin our year at this point is a terrorist attack on the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York City
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By the end of October, we thought that the worst of the sub-prime crisis was behind us as many of the aggressive lenders (Countrywide, American Home Mortgage) in this space had already hit the wall.
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One week ago, the Dow was at all-time highs, the S&P 500 and NASDAQ at six year highs and the S&P 500 was within a few percent of making a new all-time high.
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For the most part, our clients trailed the averages for the year by about 4% despite a late year rally in technology stocks. As this was the second year in a row of underperformance (last year by 1%), we reviewed our strategy from top down to see whether flaws exist.
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