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“Dinner was just okay.” After almost thirty years of marriage, I realized this was never the correct answer to my wife's question about whether I liked dinner. That being said, October is usually an okay month for stocks. While “just okay” doesn’t win me any points...

The Fed cut its rate by half a percentage point on Wednesday to start a change in policy direction and signaled two more cuts this year.

“The Federal Reserve (Fed) is ready to pat itself on the back….” Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Stock trading volume is low during the summer when most Americans take vacations. It seems that when Labor Day ends and everyone is back in the office, everybody starts trading at once. According to FactSet data, September is one of the year’s highest months for trading volume.

From an earnings perspective, all eyes have been on the computer chip maker NVIDIA, which announced its earnings and projections after the market closed on August 28.  Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Investment fund flows, which measure the movement of cash in and out of investments, can reveal patterns in investor sentiment and general investing trends.

Up-Downs: Building Resilience on the Field and in Investing — Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Historically, stocks tend to be a bust in August. July was the eighth positive month out of the last nine, but it was quickly forgotten when August started with a big market drop.

It's funny to remember how my friends and I played Spin the Bottle at junior high birthday parties. I didn’t have a girlfriend, and all the girls were cute, so I didn’t mind who the bottle pointed to. Up until now, that was what I considered the Great Rotation. Today,...

I bought a first-year model GMC truck a few years ago and had to have it towed three times in the first month. The computer was causing the emergency brake to lock up and not release. It took GM a few weeks to work out a computer patch, but once they did, it has been...

I had a business professor who was frustrated with our class and unexpectedly changed his test schedule. We complained that it wasn’t normal to change the test dates from what was printed in the syllabus, and he said, “That was yesterday’s normal; today's normal is a...

Joe Shearrer, is a Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Fervent Wealth Management Growing up, can you remember a time you were in a bicycle wreck?  When I turned five, I received a brand-new bike for my birthday.  The excitement got the best of me as I headed down our...

I think there are two kinds of people in the world: those who hit the brakes when they see a yellow light and those who hit the gas. I’m a person who doesn’t slow down for yellow lights. I think the stock market light is turning yellow, and I’m watching to see what...

“Dad, what if we made a washing machine that automatically dried the clothes too?” My teenage son is very creative and always dreams of new business ideas. I always ask him, "Will it be profitable enough to justify the expense?” Spending on artificial intelligence...

Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri. “The Fed’s biggest inflation-fighting tool is raising the federal funds rate, which affects bank loans, CD rates, and mortgage rates.”

Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri. “Investors navigated around the end of first-quarter earnings, record highs for the market, elevated volatility in fixed-income and currency markets, and increased political uncertainty stemming from former President Donald Trump’s conviction.”

Consumer confidence numbers released Tuesday showed an unexpected improvement in US consumer confidence in May after dropping for three straight months.

Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri. “Stocks are having a great May so far, up just over 5% as of the 22nd, and investors seem to be pouring money into a wide variety of stocks.”