Market Rally

After a really bad roller coaster ride for investors this week with some flash declines due to economic data. Friday investors decided to weigh in on the European crisis after getting good economic news from overseas. The markets rallied to a 277 point 2.30 percent increase on the Dow Jones and other markets today with short sellers jumping back in on the market rally. Investment brokerage houses however down graded stock valuations on several stocks like Rimm ( Research In Motion) and Ford Motor Co. due to poor overall performance. Some analysts see the market overall weakness as a sign of a possible return to a bear market in the short term future. In other economic news that hit investors and business this week is the GDP fell by more than one percentage point to 2.1 percent. This after the last quarter seen no improvement in growth reported by the Commerce Department for both this quarter and earnings for business in fiscal year 2012 stayed flat. Lots of investors reacted sharply to more companies laying off worker and shrinking investment in new product development by businesses this year. Economic pundits talked over this week if the currently proposed fix to European fiscal crisis is actually going to solve the problems that many EU currency nations are dealing with now. The current solutions to dealing with European problems have been the hot topic of conversation at many board rooms in companies in America and abroad. This month the Federal Reserve changed the interest rate and announced more change to the Twist program. This caused many on Wall Street to review their investment strategy and some institutional investors to bail out before the markets radically declined. On the bright side more investors seen new opportunity to buy cheap stock and make a profit even in a weak baseline market. Look for a new rallies next week as investors size up the news and economic data set to come out from Europe and from the Treasury and Commerce Department. Most analysts project a fiscal expansion on some sectors of the economy but with more bad news from government sources could cause a scale back by investors and businesses. The green shoots in the economy are driving some expansion that both business and investors see as a sign that the economy is about to greatly expand. How the expansion is going to happen is what makes investors nervous about their portfolios. With slow economic growth most business and individual investors are taking a reserved approach presently. When the opening bell for next weeks session on Monday happens for stock markets look for most of main street and wall street to jump fully back in the market indexes. Have a great weekend and enjoy it be prepared to get in early Monday and make some great money..

Dow Losses

It sure has been another blood bath for stocks on wall street today as we feel the pain again of another dose of triple digit loses. Most investors just bailed out of stocks and really went looking for safety in their portfolio after last weeks disaster decline on Thursday. Stock performance started out this Monday as the same sour note with investors hedging bonds over stocks. This shift has driven the market indexes to another 146 plus points decline before closing bell with most stocks and some bonds off a full percentage point or more today. I think this is just a market correction that we have all have to bear the brunt of this week. On the brighter side some under value stocks in the oil and utilities sector actually gained a average of 2 to 3.5 percent  in today's market weakness which is good.
Stocks like Geo Petro and Teco Energy gained a healthy 2.4 percentage on the market share price. Look for a some solid stocks to do well such as Verizon and Microsoft in the coming days as investors buy back in on cheap dividend payers. Good investment in the cheap stocks and bonds are a solution to the building your individual wealth even in a weak market. Have a great day and invest wisely so you earn money on your portfolio especially on dividend paying investments.

Back to Work

Well, It sure has been a rough ride with my health for the last six weeks but I am happy to announce that I am all better now. I know that that I let this blog go dormant and forced to walk away from posting to it because I could not see the screen for several weeks. So I lost my readership on here due to my illness but I am back to work here now. I hope that everyone took the time to read all my back articles and gave a lot of thought to what I have written. It is great to be seeing this page clearly again and be back to writing hard hitting investigation articles with plenty of commentary. I apologize to my readers for being absent but I hope in my absence you found simple quality time to spend with your family and friends. Now that I am here again to stay and write the good opinion articles and investigation news pieces look for a great deal of journalism coming your way. Everyone have a really great weekend and stay cool as most of the country of America is on sweat mode averaging one hundred degrees today.

Pink eye..

This sucks having pink eye in both eyes and dealing with blurred vision. I can barely read this screen today and what would be very easy to do is one heck of a chore to do. I apologize for not being able to post regular to this blog due to health problems. Thanks for your understanding with this blog...

Holiday today

Happy memorial holiday today to all my readership worldwide..

Vision Problem ..

I am sorry to my readership that I have not been posting to here like I promised but I am having blurred vision that is very annoying to me. It is making it hard to read the screen and everything else this week. When it becomes better then I will go to posting to this blog frequently but until I can see clearly I will not be here for a short time.. Sorry for the inconvenience to everyone online who reads this blog..

Stock Correction Coming

Well stocks were mixed this week with heavy trading in all major markets. This week has seen a 217 point drop on the Dow only to have institutional investors come to the rescue after a sharp decline. The decline was due in part to more economic data showing slow growth in the first quarter going into second quarter earnings for American businesses. This combined with some good news that unemployment is staying at 8.2 percent is giving investors pause for thought on this new information. We see that most major investment houses and the federal reserve holding the line on pouring more money into the market. The reaction by the federal reserve this week was the usually muted yawning and we will wait and see if this is going away soon. Mostly investors just held their noses and jumped back in on the upside on late Thursday when the market indicated a upswing starting. Some recent data shows that the GDP for this quarter has actually gotten better with a 2.4 percentage growth over last years report. Still not enough to put joy in the hearts of investors and more money in everyones pockets but it still is better than the last three years. The last three years saw America with crippling double digit inflation and combined with more national debt increases to add to the problem. Credit has gotten harder to get for every part of the economy and banks failures have become more common as pancakes with homemade apple pie. So what to do this year? Investors watch out the seesaw of the markets is going to continue with more mixed economic data to come. However I see the third quarter of 2012 should have a more stable field for the avid marketeer. Why? Simple you will see the big companies shifting to cutting costs meaning that they will be hiring more workers but at a cheaper labor rate. Profits soured by tight credit will be offset by new venture capital being involved in the later part of this year. Overall if your going to invest go with diversity and by all means add plenty of dividend paying stocks to your portfolio. You might want to also go with managed bond funds like Vanguard or Janus that provide you longer term stability with lower market risk. In any investment decision think with your head not your heart so that you win more than you lose by a three to one margin for winning trading. Strap on you jet pack this week coming is going to be a shift climbing up in the markets so everyone should be poised to jump in on the new growth. Have a great Sunday everyone and enjoy it to the maximum. Smile .......

Kid in a Candy Store

I am just feeling really gitty about the stock market today decline. You see while all the investment houses stole the show by telling investors to go in big on the market over the past month. I told everyone to get out now so that they would keep their portfolio intact and wait until the market dropped enough on down swing. OK.. I hope everyone took my advice here and did not listen to the advisors in wall street fat cat firms who lined there pockets when the market nose dives. The numbers don't lie and neither does the chart data which shows the knee jerk tears and sobbing of the outside investment community.  The smart ones in business bailed out when the chart data started to reach toppings at the peak signaling at reverse decline going to happen so they kept their money. This market has been really strange this year so far with many changes in the past few months both positive and negative. Some advisors have suggested that the markets are going to climb to 15000 marker this year but I think it is very unreasonable to get everyones hopes up. The real story is unemployment is up and more businesses are cutting back or folding up shop permanently. This will effect the investment plans of many individuals and corporate investors who feel that they are skating on thin ice praying that they can all stay afloat. Having a good insight as I do I could see this coming and bailed out until the markets go down to the bottom then buy in on cheap stocks. You know folks this decline is temporary so take advantage of the cheap stocks then ride the wave to near the top. Every smarter investment guy will you that your nuts to buy on the down side supposedly because your losing your shirt. Trust in you knowledge he does not know his bank from his wallet so he is a loser doing his advice column. But if your smart like me you buy on the dip and bail out when the charts are screaming sell it before you get to the top of the wave. This after all is a business and anyone who is idiot that treats this any other way is just going to lose their entire portfolio. Take your risk at a calculated ratio so you get at least three to one on wins and losses. This way you grow your portfolio meaningfully while other poor slobs are popping tums and crying in their towel over their losses in the markets. My advice is buy in now while it is low this morning and watch your charts to bail out later this week. Yes there's going to be a few volitle stages but do the smart thing and stay with it unless you think the stock is going to the toilet then by all means bail before you lose everything in you accounts. Following this advanced advice here will make you money and after all that is the business you choose to be in which is a very risky but profit driven one.. Have a good day now and really reap the rewards you deserve..

Factory Output Slow..

You would think that with all the current hype that the economy is getting better. A good prediction of how the overall economy is doing is to look at factory orders for durable goods such as refrigerators and computers etc. Looking at the GDP which is how we currently measure economic output it tells a total different story which is factory orders are sharply down. What does this all mean for our economy and more over how is our trade partners affected. The answer will surprise you in the fact that when our output slows the rest of the world feels eventually the same pain as we all do. If you look at prior documented slow GDP you see a pattern of weakness in the rest of the worlds monetary system. Usually the banks are the first to react to these changes as they have the inside information to know how to deal with their own business interest well before you and I know about it. So watch the banks and the Federal Reserve to see if there is any changes in policy which would certainly show a attempt to heading off a financial crisis. A economic slow down allways has some prior individual indications just like if you look at a chart for a popular stock you want to buy.  Taking a deeper look into the economy you see that the current weakness is due to a combination of factors including heavy handed government regulation of business in America. Every time you add a new layer of regulations more businesses in this country fail which slows the GDP because you are losing output. The larger companies are more able to shift to meet the new government demands. However the small business entry is forced to use more creative ways to generate new revenue or fold up permanently. If the backbone of American business which is the mom and pop shops continue to fail at the current attrition rate we can see more of a deeper recession. This is a pending disaster that the government bean counters and the Federal Reserve have not taken into consideration lately. You can not have a soft monetary policy that does not fix the problem which shows a total lack of understanding of all our countries problems. For many decades we in this country have been like a dumb chicken running around on a drunken spending spree and passing the problem to the next generation. It is time to start supporting our own national interests and let the rest of the world sink or swim on it's own. That is the only way we are not going to have a total financial collapse in every sector of our economy. Having a clear understanding of our overwhelming financial mess we are in is no easy task. We in America do what is right by cutting our national debt and supporting ourselves not on credit then we can fix our financial mess sooner. So let's pump up the GDP by getting our financial house in order and pay off the massive debt we have incurred over many decades.

Stocks Mixing Today

Nice to see that some small stocks have made gains while blue chip stocks are taking a beating. Looking at the overall Dow proformance today can lead me to think that this is the beginning of the course correction I wrote about last week. One can see that looking at the Mac D and other charts this morning that we will see over this week a futher decline in most technology stocks meanwhile raw goods such as sugar and corn will go up. Where to invest this week is of important matter since most stocks are down. Well buy the cheaper beaten down tech stocks and mix your portfolio with some solid dividend paying ones
Everyone knows that buy on the down market is good to do but read your chart data out to one year from date of possible purchase to see if it is a reliable proformer. Look for the upswing on the stock and ride the wave but get out before the stock tops. If you do ride the wave this week be careful not to read the charts incorrectly so you fail to get the most out investments. Hope everyone going to make lots of money this week and this should be a good week to do it.

Wealth Management

Anybody with some good skills can make money but not everyone knows how to do wealth management. You have to know how to invest your savings and make it work for you. Be careful to avoid putting your money in risky bonds as well as other low profit tools. Investment wisdom should be to look to buy cheaper stocks that pay a fat dividend so your money works for you. By doing this you grow your portfolio with tools that help you achieve your goals over both short and long term. Try many new ideas to group your investments into a positive position so that you have more winning trades combination with dividends. Lastly if the market goes up or down read your chart data before buying any securities so you know everything about it before putting your hard earned money in it.

Stocks Waver

It is that time in the new year when most people are focused on all those new resolutions that they would like to fulfill. If your are a investor it is time to create a new strategy to successfully get boat loads of dividend in your portfolio account. It makes sense to do your research and go with cheap stocks which do exist in the busy market. The problem with this is the current market is beating down some big name stocks and pumping up the short term little Guy stocks. So should I go short term or play the long game by buying and holding? This is the matter of which custom strategy you go with as to where you invest your hard earnings into the market. If your like most of the small cap investors you will go with buy and hold in about 10 stocks that hopefully do small shifting in the market. The problem is with this strategy is you stand to loose most or all of your portfolio if those stocks go in the toilet. With the current market volatility you cannot afford to make this kind of common mistake. It is better to put a smaller amount into your stock portfolio and play them on the short game. By flipping the stocks on the short game strategy you minimize the risk and increase your overall profits. Sounds easy but trying to do it takes some skill to make it work in your favor. It is however the best strategy to make your investment portfolios grow at a level above 6 percent. This should be part of any investment goal to achieve a good return on your money. In other words make your money work for you by playing the short game to keep buying and selling on a short term basis. If your like me you look for good deals in the market and buy beaten down stocks then sell them as soon as the.market goes up to a certain accepted level. This makes money while lowest risk at the same time is the way to beat the market by a seven to one margin. Do strategy in the current market and you will become a Wall Street fat cat and a favorite with all your new found friends. Happy investing!!

Business Prospects

I continue to see some new economic data that is encouraging business expansion in this new year. If you look closely at the GDP this month the numbers tell the story of a revenue reversal in the positive direction for corporate America. The decrease in unemployment has most business people planning a new phase of experienced worker's hiring. This reflection is good for every part of the economy with most companies saying that first quarter earnings are up.  Better quality workers are now available now with more people having a college degree that makes it more comprehensive the hiring process. Some businesses have now started offering better benefits packages to lure in these high skilled workers. Overall with this kind of improvement it is in favor of making this year a great year for corporate America to beat the overseas competition in every aspect of business. While the stock market is double what it was in the past year it still shows a shaky recovery for this year so far. Hopefully that will change in favor of a more solid recovery as this year continues. In order for this to happen their needs to be more investment by both government and private sector business so that the economy growth is more than 3 percent. It looks like we might see that happen if the stock market becomes more bullish and corporate America become more confident in the new green recovery. This will be good for the economy if all that I am talking about happens this year.

NEW YEARS DAY 2012

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Economic News

Well some new good news is in which shows a increase in overall sales by 27.8 billion dollars. This is good news for most businesses who have seen slower than usual growth this year. Overall this year has been troubled for retail in 2011 with many large chain stores and other small business feeling the pain equally. The last quarter of this year has been the best in three years for many sectors of business that had seen many failures. If you combined all the current growth though over a years time it still is not as good as it could be done. The new payroll tax law that is about to become law will further impact business by making employers pay more to keep employees on the books. The ugly truth is that even with the new economic data for the fourth quarter it still needs improvement. Well I am going out on a limb here and going to stare into my christal ball and make some new years predictions. OK.  Here goes the banned predictions about the economy. Just making a dry humor  joke.. Stop Laughing!!!  The new year will bring a continue growth in retail and other sections of the economy for 2012 year. You will have to watch precious metals prices and employment data as a good indication of how the new year will shape up to being whether mixed or bad results. If precious metals stay high and unemployment climbs to 13 percent average you will see business take a wait and see attitude. This will greatly shape the consumer confidence and buying habits for the upcoming new year. While I am going with mixed bag review here I think that there will be some constriction on the stock market in the new year the market overall will be more favorable to investment. The big question is how will all this good news be received by the Fed Reserve and how difficult it will be to obtain credit for most employers? I think that it will be a shaping factor in year 2012 as business will be more inclined to investment and expansion if fiscal policy is geared to improvement. If the Fed and banks lower the lending rate to a better rate then you will see major economic good happen. Think your exempt your not because your in for a better ride in the new year with lots of good economic data to be happy about. This will make for a interesting new year in 2012 with all the changes that will happen so enjoy the ride.

Vacation

I am still doing my holiday vacation so I just want to update my readers that all is going well with creating a new project list for year 2012. Due to a lot of changes in my business ventures,journalism and other things I doing I am going to bring to the table lots of new ideas. Hope everything is going well with everyones holidays. Next year I will bring a new style of journalism that is going to be interesting. Just having a new step in a futuristic process for development of this blog will bring news combination with video transformation. This process I started early this year which incorporated current news and opinion to bring to my readers a new journalist view. I will continue to add YouTube videos and commentary that is both stimulus to my readers that will increase knowledge to all. Happy holiday to all my readers and enjoy your week.

Holiday Tribute

I know that I have been strangely absent from here but I have been working three jobs plus management of all my various business ventures. So now that I have a little time this Saturday morning I wanted to let my readers know that I am still going to keep posted everyone about current events. I have taken a short vacation from writing and doing news pieces but now I am back so look for the news and great commentary.. I admitted to myself that I could have done a lot better with keeping my readers up to date but my mother and one of my dogs died this year so I took a vacation to deal with the pain. Hopefully I will get to writing investigation news articles soon and so you will have lots to read combined with important topics of interest. So sorry for the vacation but I needed some personal time away from here..

Turkey Day

Well this year has been all about change and most is not for the better of me. My mother died in July and my living situation is a disaster plus way to many other problems. I lost mostly everything I own in a storage unit in February of this year including my beloved truck. So what does Thanksgiving mean to me this year? My answer summed up is I feel I have mostly nothing to be thankful for this year. For the first time in my life I truly feel I don't care about this day since my sweetheart wife is gone and both my parents are dead. My other dog and cat that got stolen from me in 2007 are probably both dead now too. So my day today is just going to be about visiting my other dog that is still living as I have had two dogs. This will be Turkey day and what it.means to me.

Business Flux

This morning has been so far a really great opposite open opportunity to learn how to market trade your investments. You see why this because of the yo yo of the market swing. If you combined the third quarter earnings of all the technology stocks and big bond holders you would see the clear picture. Until now the mostly you would have invested heavy in these companies and your own company because of such rosey economic data. You would now be living a nightmare because you failed to see the landscape ahead of you and fell into this sink hole. If your going to invest in a swing time like this you had better read your plan carefully and allow yourself wiggle room. This way you can change with the times ahead and put your money to work for you making a profit. Watch the stock market when you own and run your own business so you always have a good idea of what the economy is doing at all times. By doing this you are less prone to make a costly mistake and put yourself,your company in a better position to profit from current and future economic data trends.

News Reports

I just want to let everyone know that you can now see my very first news documentry on CNN NEWS by going to I-REPORTS.CNN.COM/JNorton1 or go to CNN.Com and Click I-REPORTS and search for me under my name (John Norton).  I have gone a long way in journalism now being on CNN NEWs and I am proud of this accomplishment as well as now I am told that I have been awarded a new column in one of the newspapers (Street SIGHTS) that I write for as a community service project which is just awesome. I never thought that my creative skills would take me to such a new level much less my becoming a journalist which never had I done in life until the last few years. WOW!! Well I have worked hard at it and it has not come easy doing it but I love doing this I have to admitt to that aspect. Look on CNN NEWS to See my NEWS I-REPORTS and also listen to my talk show (Modern POLITICAL THINKING) on WWW.BLOGTALKRADIO.COM/JOHNNORTON and all the other newspapers and magazines I write for weekly.. Have a great day and enjoy it everyone.. SMILE!!