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  Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, we again are adding stocks to our four … Read more about Stock Market News: Value vs. Growth, Sector and Industry Group Weightings and More

  Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, we are again adding stocks to our four … Read more about Stock Market News: Earnings Scorecard, Meme Stocks and Economic News

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, our Graphic Detail looks at Seasonality, offering … Read more about Stock Market News: Seasonality, Value vs. Growth Stocks and Dividend Payers

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, our Graphic Detail offers our annual review of … Read more about Stock Market News: Dow Jones, Market Timing and Interest Rates

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, our Graphic Detail feature takes a look at Q4 … Read more about Stock Market News: Earnings Scorecard, Economic Data, TPS 47th Anniversary

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, This month, we put some of the proceeds of recent … Read more about Stock Market News: Regional Banks, The Super Bowl Indicator and Presidential Performance

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, our Graphic Detail reviews Newsletter Portfolio … Read more about Stock Market News: Newsletter Portfolio Sector Weightings, Index Performance Attribution and Market Timing

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. In this month's newsletter our Graphic Detail feature takes a … Read more about Stock Market News: Seasonal Favoritism, Q3 Earnings, Value Stocks and Charlie Munger

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. In this month's newsletter we discuss geopolitical news, … Read more about Stock Market News: Seasonal Favoritism and Presidential Performance Averages

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. In this month's newsletter we discuss long-term investing, … Read more about Stock Market News: Long-Term Investing, Global Market Performance, Valuations and More

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, we offer a brand-new recommendation of a former … Read more about Stock Market News: Earnings Scorecard, Interest Rates, GDP Growth and more Economic News

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, our Editor's Note offers more perspective on … Read more about Stock Market News: Bank Metrics and more Economic News

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, in addition to our monthly 10-stock Portfolio … Read more about Stock Market News: Sector Weightings, Value vs. Growth Sector Attribution and more Economic News

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. In this month's Newsletter, we offer perspective on the equity … Read more about Stock Market News: Debt Ceiling, Q1 Earnings, GDP Growth and more Economic News

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. In this month's Newsletter, we discuss the equity market … Read more about Stock Market News: Equity Market Headwinds, Value Stocks, Dow Jones, Russell 3000 Value vs. Growth and more

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. In this month's Newsletter, we discuss the equity market … Read more about Stock Market News: Equity Market Rebound, Value Stocks, Federal Reserve Board and more

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary, helpful charts and graphs, recent equity market news, economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This month, we celebrate our 46th Anniversary and detail stock … Read more about Stock Market News: Our 46th Anniversary and Quarterly Earnings Scorecard

Every month, The Prudent Speculator produces a newsletter that includes a market summary for the month prior, helpful charts and graphs, recent stock market news, future economic outlook and specific stock investment strategies focused on value stock investing. This week, we cover short- and … Read more about Stock Market News: A look at short- and long-term returns of market-wide portfolios

Preview of January 2023 Newsletter     Editors Note  “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked.” — Warren Buffett Happy New Year! With stocks suffering a sizable decline in December, we suspect that few are sorry to see the calendar turn to 2023. After … Read more about Stock Market News: Our Portfolio Sector Weightings and Value vs. Growth Index Performance

Preview of December 2022 Newsletter Editor's Note “The time for moderating the pace of rate increases may come as soon as the December meeting.” — Jerome H. Powell After a spectacular October, equities continued their tremendous rebound in November. Inexpensively priced stocks again led the … Read more about Stock Market News: The Recent Rebounds in Equity Markets and our Earnings Scorecard

Preview of November 2022 Newsletter   Editor's Note “What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.” — Aristotle Maybe all that was needed to turn October into one of the best months in stock market history was for many Wall Street professionals to join Main Street investors on … Read more about Stock Market News: Two Reasons to Move Towards Equities

Preview of October 2022 Newsletter   Editor's Note   “Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.” — Plautus September lived down to its reputation as the worst month of the year this time around, with the S&P 500 tumbling 9.2% and the Nasdaq Composite Index skidding 10.4%, … Read more about Long-Term Perspective from a Value-Stock Basis to Help Navigate Today’s Market Environment

Preview of September 2022 Newsletter   Editor's Note “Mr. Market is there to serve you, not to guide you. It is his pocketbook, not his wisdom, that you will find useful.” — Benjamin Graham Though we have long known he has had “incurable emotional problems,” Benjamin Graham’s Mr. Market … Read more about Stock Market News: Making Sense of the Recent Market Gyrations

Preview of August 2022 Newsletter   Editor's Note “I do not think the U.S. is currently in a recession. There are just too many areas of the economy that are performing too well.” — Jerome H. Powell A month ago, the headlines were shouting, “Stocks Post Worst First Half of the Year Since … Read more about Stock Market News: Reason and Evaluation to Keep Calm Without Panic

Preview of July 2022 Newsletter   Editor's Note “Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.” — Dalai Lama To say that 2022 has been a tough year in the financial markets would seem to be a major understatement. After all, the S&P 500 tumbled 8.4% in June, skidded 16.5% in Q2 and plunged … Read more about Stock Market News: Two New Recommendations and a look at the Russell 3000 Index Performance Attribution

Preview of June 2022 Newsletter   Editor's Note “If you don’t know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.” – Adam Smith While it took a 6% plus rally over the last full trading week of the month to get into the black, we … Read more about Stock Market News: A Look at Our Quarterly Earnings Scorecard

Preview of May 2022 Newsletter   Editor's Note “We depend on mis-priced businesses through a mechanism where we’re not responsible for the mispricing.” — Warren Buffett With even the mainstream media shouting that the 12.9% loss on the S&P 500 index through the first four months of … Read more about Stock Market News: A Difficult Start to The Year and Our Seasonality and Index Composition

Preview of April 2022 Newsletter     Editor's Note “We do feel the economy is very strong and well positioned to withstand tighter monetary policy.” — Jerome H. Powell   While the month closed on a down note, March was nicely positive for equity investors, even as gains on the … Read more about Stock Market News: Equity Returns and Changes in the Fed Funds, Inflation and Interest Rates

Preview of March 2022 Newsletter   The Prudent Speculator - Editor's Note “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” — Warren Buffett As we add the Russian Invasion of Ukraine to the long list of disconcerting headlines with which we have had … Read more about Stock Market News: A First Time Recommendation and a Look at Our Quarterly Earnings Scorecard

Stock Market News: Two Brand New Recommendations and a Look at Calendar and Valuation Factors Over Time   Editor's Note “I think there’s quite a bit of room to raise rates without threatening the labor market.” — Jerome H. Powell After a spectacular October, equities continued their … Read more about Preview of February 2022 Newsletter

Preview of January 2022 Newsletter   Editor's Note “I am a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.” — Betty White Incredibly, 2021 began with a Democratic sweep of the two run-off elections for the Georgia Senate seats and a Mob Storms Capitol … Read more about Stock Market News: Offering Our Semi-Annual Review of Sector & Industry Group Weightings as well as Value & Growth Sector Attribution