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Market Commentary: Week Ending 03-30-12

This will be CWM’s last weekly market commentary as we are changing our communication strategy. Going forward, we will be sending a monthly market commentary, as well as a quarterly financial planning newsletter. For all of our clients that have questions or concerns about the markets, feel free to give us a call or send an email; you don’t need to wait for the monthly market commentary to have your questions answered or to know how we perceive the current investing environment. Should the market experience an extreme event, I will be sure to send you my thoughts and

Market Commentary: Week Ending 03-23-12

This past week saw weakness in stocks mostly driven by realizations that both the European economy and Chinese economy are both slowing down. The embarrassing story of the week was the attempt to take BATS Global Markets (headquarters in Lenexa, KS) into an initial public offering (IPO). BATS, which stands for Better Alternative Trading System, runs two exchanges that collectively rank third in terms of U.S. share trading, behind the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The story with the attempted IPO of BATS is that the IPO was supposed to happen on the actual BATS exchange itself.

Market Commentary: Week Ending 03-16-12

The global markets saw big gains for the week. With the current gyrations in the markets, I thought I’d share my perspective on my current stance.

Buy Low

The US stock market has put in a nice run since October 2011. But, most of the gains, undeniably, have come along in a period where the global economic backdrop has been quite ominous (and continues to be). Since this past autumn, we have seen (are seeing):

November 30, 2011 – Western central banks flood the global economy with US dollars. This action was a result of European banks hitting epic

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