Capital Highlights is published monthly. It is a concise timely summary of US and global market updates that are informative and insightful.
We want to thank everyone who dropped off paper documents to be shredded and recycled. Your participation saved about a ton of paper for repurposing and out of landfills. The Blakeley Group hopes to see you again next year for this event. We continually remind ourselves that each of us make the recycling system work for everyone. ~ Dick Blakeley, CEO/CIO It can lead to loss of privacy, identity or worse! Protect yourself! Feel free to drop off all your sensitive documents you wish to have shredded at our office from now until May 30th. On May 31, we will have ProShred, (www.proshred.com) a bonded insured shredding company come to our office and do on site shredding. NOTE: Areas with blue text show the most recent market updates since the March Capital Highlights email. We are happy to have a new member joining The Blakeley Group. Reana Brady has joined the group assisting Dick and helping support the rest of the team. Please feel free to call or email Reana at 408-459-4911 or info@theblakeleygroup.com. She can help handle most requests and arrange time for calls in my calendar. "Please email or call 408-459-4911 if you would like to schedule time to call or meet to discuss what The Blakeley Group is working on in 2017.” ~ Dick Blakeley, CFO NOTE: Areas with blue text show the most recent market updates since the December Capital Highlights email. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” NOTE: Areas with blue text show the most recent market updates since the November Capital Highlights email. Please look at the last page on Fig. 4, the ranking is at a 14 and a reversal will be in taken when the ranking is 17. Stay tuned and we will see which direction the portfolio needs/should be positioned. SUGGESTED READING "Nuveen Briefing Paper on Markets and Presidential Election Cycles" Want your own copy? “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask. for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes." ~ Albert EinsteinJUNE 2017: Stocks Rallied for a Second Week
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on June 19th, 2017
MAY 2017: Commodity Weakness Continues in the Energy Sector
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on May 15th, 2017
APRIL 2017: Home Prices Surged to Their Highest Level in Nearly Three Years
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on April 10th, 2017
MARCH 2017: Consumers Confidence at a 15 year high
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on March 10th, 2017
FEB 2017: Job Growth Details
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on February 10th, 2017
JAN 2017: Predictions
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on January 6th, 2017
DEC 2016: U.S. economy grew at the fastest pace in over 2 years
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on December 12th, 2016
~ Benjamin FranklinNOV 2016: Uncertainty
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on November 12th, 2016
October 2016: Stocks Finished the Week Modestly High
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on October 6th, 2016
September 2016: Securities Markets were pretty "blah" in August
Submitted by The Blakeley Group, Inc. on September 12th, 2016
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