The Hang Seng Index (HSI) stands out as one of the most recognized and extensively used stock market indices in Asia. Its roots date back to 1964 when HSI Services Limited brought it into existence. Essentially, the HSI serves as a barometer for the collective value of shares from the largest companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. What sets ...

Santa Clarita Real Estate & Market Report: November 07, 2014: Wow, the stock market continues its journey upward as this week each closing bell was accompanied by a higher closing index. Although the market is not shooting up like a rocket as it did last week, we continue to see slow growing strength in the economy. The Fed has ended ...

The stock market took it on the chin in a big way on Thursday with a drop of 265 points, which comes on the heels of additional declines on Monday and Tuesday, thankfully on Friday at 9am PST the Dow has stopped the bleeding and up 53 points. The cause of the steep decline this week is focused on 3 main areas, global ...

In a week light on economic news, the markets were relatively quiet. Although there was some intraday trading that caused the stock indices to make some significant moves, here we are at the end of the week and the DOW is within 100 points of where it started the week. Housing seems to be quietly puttering along with no real ...

The report that everyone has been waiting for all week is the employment data released by the Department of Labor on Friday morning. This report comes on the heels ofThursday’s optimistic ADP Employment Report, which estimated an increase in private payrolls at a healthy 204,000. However, the Department of Labor announced that only 142,000 jobs were added in the month of August. This is ...

Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer, and as is normal, trading in the markets is extremely light. Even though there is some movement in the indices, it is based on incredibly light volume of trading.  It appears that unless there is a major crisis or occurrence in the world, little will happen in the markets. Don’t miss a ...

There seems to be little standing in the way of the stock market rising these days. Through the first 4 trading days of the week the market is up 275 points. Despite all of the doom and gloom predictions that the markets were going to get hurt as the Fed continued to taper their stimulus program, none of that has ...

It’s amazing how  home values here in California keep rising, just last week we closed a loan for a client that was unable to refinance their home just a year ago because they did not have enough equity at the time. This saved our client a ton of money each month and now have a plan to pay their home off ...

While the corporate profit reports being released as of late are stronger than expected, geopolitical concerns are dragging down the stock market in a big way. On Wednesday the DOW hit another record high which kept the upward momentum of the market going. However on Thursday the market did a turnaround and dropped 161 points.  With the news that Israel has sent ...

It seems clear that we are in the summer trading season in which stock trading volume has been lighter than normal.  Combine that with the lack of market moving economic data this week, and combine it with coming off the July 4th holiday weekend, there has been little to talk about.  Even the release of the FOMC minutes on Wednesday did ...