Real Estate & Market Report: December 02, 2016 – As of late, the stock market has been trading within a fairly-narrow range. By: Fred Arnold At this point investors have accepted the reality that the Fed will likely raise rates at the December policy meeting. Bond yields and mortgage rates have been rising at a record pace since Donald Trump ...

It seems that the presidential election is in the driver’s seat in the minds of investors. By: Fred Arnold Many experts were expecting the Fed to raise interest rates at this week’s Fed meeting. Despite the Fed decision to leave rates where they are, the markets reacted with little more than a yawn. The stock indexes remained little changed since the ...

The best news of the week is that if you have any investments in the stock market, you have likely seen a significant recovery of the money you have lost in the last couple of months. For the last two weeks the stock market has been moving higher and most of the losses from earlier in the month have been ...

Officials with Pinecrest Schools announced on Monday that it will be shutting the doors of all five campuses, one of which located in Santa Clarita, at the end of the school year due to financial troubles. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Pinecrest Schools, who have been operating for 65 years, houses campuses ...

Ed. Note: The following article is a news release provided by Single Mothers Outreach. Single Mothers Outreach has graduated nearly 140 single parents from its financial training program since 2008. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Mothers are given the vital tools they need to become self-sufficient from the financial training program, which ...

Have a plan when leaving money to your children. The average inheritance is spent in less than a year. A living trust can help avoid financial problems. There are many famous stories of trust fund babies, from Paris Hilton to the Rockefeller clan.  And whether your children stand to inherit less or more than those big names, there is one ...

Stock market analysts and news commentators always look for an explanation as to the movements of the stock market and the behavior of investors at any given time The see saw of the market this week has been tied mostly to what is happening with Greece. If you have been following the stock market this week you would think that, ...

One of two things can be the cause of your debt.  If you have multiple credit card debts of about the same size, then it usually means you lack the discipline needed to NOT charge on your cards when you can’t pay them off. By: Arif Halaby | Total Financial Solutions Cause of Debt The day often begins with an ...

As expected, with minimal market data reports coming out this week, the stock market has been relatively flat for the first 3 days of trading. (Monday the markets were closed)  Continuing to hover just over the 18,000 mark investors seem quite content to remain where they are. Mortgage rates have been rising since last week as optimism for the U.S. ...

Have you thought to yourself that you may have all of your eggs in one basket?  When it comes to retirement account assets, you may be right. If you have all of your accounts in the stock market and it goes down, you may lose your ability to retire the way you had planned, says Arif M. Halaby, CEP, CEO ...