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Apple Stock: For a Healthy Portfolio, Diversify Among a Variety of Fruits & Vegetables

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:27:17 +0000

Apple (NASDAQ: APPL) is enormous. Just how big is it? Apple is by far the largest company in America. With a market cap of nearly $600 billion, Apple is larger than the entire 2010 GDP of Switzerland. Leuthold Group. Apple stock now comprises more than 4% of the S&P 500, and 18% of the smaller NASDAQ.

Time: Your Most Valuable Resource

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:41:54 +0000

We often act as if money is our most precious resource. We will spend our time doing things we don’t enjoy to earn a little more money or save a little. We focus our efforts on what we perceive to be our most profitable opportunities, instead of focusing on those that will bring us the most joy and satisfaction.

Has the Market Gotten Ahead of Itself?

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:06:20 +0000

Has the market gotten ahead of itself? The upward trend that started from the March 9, 2009 market lows recently celebrated its third birthday in grand style. Since then, the major market indexes have doubled.

Some Common Mistakes People Make When it Comes to their IRA’s

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:28:57 +0000

...If you have the financial flexibility to do so, make your IRA contribution as early as possible each year, January 1. By not waiting until tax time of the following year to contribute to your IRA or other retirement plan, you give your investments a year’s head start on earning tax-deferred growth...

The Life and Times of a Frustrated Optimist

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:49:43 +0000

My wife calls me a frustrated optimist. It is an apt description when I look at America, our economy, and even the investment markets.....Those folks look at America's staggering debt, our dysfunctional border, our nonfunctional political system, the turmoil in the EuroZone, wasteful government spending designed to placate financially powerful special interests, our refusal to address the sobering realities of federally promised entitlements, the rising wealth gap in America, and they wonder if my frustrated optimism stems from some sort of genetic defect or insanity.

Have we Booked Passage on the Titanic or a Sailboat?

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:15:35 +0000

Recent newspaper headlines tell us that the world economy is the Titanic heading for an inevitable collision with an iceberg and that our captains (U.S. policymakers) are asleep at the helm. Growing concern that Europe's debt crisis will spread and the failure of American policymakers to reach an agreement to reduce the federal budget led the S&P 500 4.7% lower two weeks ago to its worst Thanksgiving-week loss since 1932 (Bloomberg).

20 Ways to Give Thanks This Thanksgiving

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:09:58 +0000

Looking for a different twist on giving thanks at Thanksgiving this week? Here are twenty questions to engage family and friends. Print the list, cut the questions into separate strips, fold each in half and place them in a basket. Have each guest select a question from the basket and answer it.

Market Commentary

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:41:06 +0000

As of August 9, 2011, the markets are down about 15% since the beginning of July (www.finance.yahoo.com). The United States federal credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in its history so we are indeed sailing in unchartered waters. Here is a broader view of the current state of markets that we hope will give you some perspective beyond the immediate headlines.

The S&P Downgrade of US Debt

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:41:52 +0000

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 634 points on the first trading day after Standard & Poor’s downgraded U.S. credit rating.[i] After a drop of this magnitude, it is hard to find anything good at all. Yet this is precisely what I have to tell you: there may be good news behind the S&P downgrade.

Debt Ceiling Update

akhila.aiyer@gvfinancial.com (GV Financial Advisors) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:36:59 +0000

Given the fluid and rapidly changing nature of the debt ceiling debate, we want to provide you with an update and our current thinking on this situation. Despite ongoing political gamesmanship in the debt ceiling/budget negotiations, we believe our elected leaders will get their act together and we will NOT default on the national debt. Daily rhetoric from Congress suggests that these leaders understand the potential consequences and believe that defaulting on the US debt is not an option; however, this high-stakes game of “chicken” continues and the House remains far from securing enough votes to ensure passage of any of the options thus far presented.

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