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 ...

Never before in the history of writing my weekly commentary have I referenced that the Energy Information Agency Petroleum Status Report. I guess there is a first time for everything. Every week this report provides the status of petroleum reserves in the United States. We never pay much attention to it. However, the last three weeks it has been a ...

Real Estate & Market Report: January 22, 2016 – Many on Wall Street are hopeful that the slide in oil prices has stopped. The stock market has lost over 1500 points since the start of the year. This is the worst start in history for the market. The Dow, after being down all week was up Thursday and has been ...

Real Estate & Market Report: January 15, 2016: This morning I looked at a chart of the stock market for the first four days of this week, and began to imagine that I was looking at a roller coaster ride. If this ride was in an amusement park it would make almost every rider crazy with excitement. However, looking at ...

Ed. Note: The following article is a news release provided by the Southland Regional Association of Realtors. A total of 86 condominiums and 154 single-family homes changed owners throughout the Santa Clarita Valley during November, the Southland Regional Association of Realtors reported. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The home sale total was ...

Real Estate & Market Report: December 18, 2015 – By now, you have heard that the Fed has raised interest rates for the first time in over 9 years. The Fed, as do so many analysts and experts, believe that the economy is finally strong enough to begin the very slow journey to return to a more normal monetary policy. ...

Real Estate & Market Report: October 30, 2015 – The big news investors were waiting for came on Wednesday when the Fed announced that they are leaving interest rates alone for the time being. It was suggested that they may be ready to raise rates in December however, we have all learned that the economic reportsbetween now and the December ...

Real Estate & Market Report: October 09, 2015 – Despite the fact that the Fed has not raised interest rates as originally planned, which is an indication that the economy is not as strong as they would like, investors don’t seem to care much. The stock market over the last five trading days is up over one thousand points. The ...

Real Estate & Market Report: September 04, 2015 – Five hundred point stock market drops, 300 point gains…it’s amazing the volatility and what we can get used to. It seems that in the span of just over a week, investors and consumers have gotten used to the wild swings happening in the markets. The craziness has been driven by 3 ...

 The stock market as of late has been declining from its record highs. It appears that the economy is slowing down. The latest batch of corporate earnings has been disappointing and that has investors on edge as well. From my perspective there is without questions some craziness relating to the perception of a company’s success relating to quarterly profits. For ...