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24 Apr 2020 A Quick Update

Posted at 09:43h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®

We’re wrapping up an historic week for the US economy. On Monday, the unthinkable happened when oil prices dropped below $0 a barrel for the first time ever. On Thursday, the US Labor Department announced an additional 4.4 million first-time claims for unemployment, effectively wiping out...

27 Mar 2020 Where We Are

Posted at 09:25h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®

The stock market has enjoyed three straight days of gains after the Senate passed a massive economic stimulus bill in an effort to cushion the U.S. economy from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The stimulus bill will now head to the House, which will...

28 Feb 2020 What Should You Do When the Market Drops?

Posted at 07:00h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®

There are a lot of scary headlines in the news right now. I’ll forgo the commonly accepted blogging practice of listing a few examples here to avoid unnecessarily exposing you to more of them than you are already reading. Along with the scary news headlines...

31 Jan 2020 ‘Tis the Season

Posted at 07:00h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®

Tax season is officially here. The IRS began accepting paper and electronic tax returns on Monday, January the 27th and the due date for 2019 federal income tax returns is April 15, 2020, for most individual taxpayers. By now you’re probably somewhere between assembling a...