Hutchens Investment Management

While everyone has an opinion of what happens to QE3, the mechanics of the exit show no clear direction. All we seem to know is that it is marching to extinction.

Not unlike Twain, who reacted to his reported demise in a London newspaper in 1887, the American consumer has been declared figuratively dead throughout the grinding economic recovery begun in 2009.

Balancing US interests and values is difficult; in the Mideast it is impossible, said David Minor of Hutchens Investment Management.

As we move beyond earnings season the results are better-than-expected for 1Q2013, said David Minor of Hutchens Investment Management.

Austerity, does it work or doesn’t it? This is an academic question which cannot be answered in the real world.

With the easing policy introduced by the Bank of Japan’s Harukiko Kuroda on April 4th, the Central Banks of the developed world are almost all engaged in maintaining low interest rates at least through 2014.

With earnings season set to begin in a little over a week, the most recent ISM data falling back to the December 2012 level, and the housing recovery set for a slowdown because of a lack of inventory, the bears are gathering to exploit the "inevitable"...

With all the negative headlines that an investor can stand regarding an irresponsible marginal member of the EU, the weeklong saga has finally ended.

As the futures indicated over Sunday night, the next big sell-off could be triggered by the EU’s taxing of Cypriot bank deposits as part of the bailout of Cyprus.

Saturday, March 9 was the four-year anniversary of the market bottom when the S&P 500 fell to 676.53, its lowest level since September 12, 1996.  On Friday, March 8, the S&P 500 closed at 1,551.18, up 129.4% from that 2009 low.