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Up and Holding

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

The stock market has been climbing an especially steep wall of worry over the past three months as concerns about the yield curve, slowing growth, and international affairs have been brushed aside by a stock market that had one of …

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2019 Forecast Recap

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

February 25, 2019 January 2, 2019 2019 Forecast Recap Market Reaction: The following is an UPDATE to our 2019 Market Forecast that was distributed in January. In that update we shared with you the January 2 graphs shown throughout this …

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Market Forecast 2019

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

MARKET STRATEGY: The opinions outlined in this 2019 forecast reflect the views of the portfolio management team as we appear to resume this ten-year secular bull market. We were correctly positioned over the last ten years on the long-side of …

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Mixed Bag

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

The markets are again in a downward pull within the ongoing trading range of the past year and are in the process of testing the low end of the range on news that seems to be taken as bullish one …

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No Election Surprise

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

No Election Surprises The markets have always hated surprises and with no surprises coming out of the midterm elections, the market had a relatively muted response in the days since the election. With the election behind us, traders will refocus …

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Up the Stairs, Down the Elevator

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

Up the Stairs, Down the Elevator The large decline in the markets on Wednesday and Thursday certainly made some headline news, but we have to keep in mind that pullbacks in the market are often more volatile than the uptrend …

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Mixed Results

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

Mixed Results The Dow Jones Industrials were up nearly 200 points on Monday due in large part to the resolution of some of the tariff issues with Canada but the rest of the market did not fare as well as …