The current bull market has lasted 3,245 days and is the second longest on record. The longest was 4,494 days and that was from late 1987 to early 2000s.

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One month versus another may not impact your portfolio directly but, over time, as we see more people becoming employed, we see more people saving.

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On Friday Turkey’s currency crashed. They have a government that has kept interest rates too low for too long and have also had out of control spending.

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One of the ways to start saving for college expenses is a 529 plan. A benefit of one of these plans is that earnings grow tax deferred.

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Currently second quarter corporate earnings are up around 23%. Expectations were that 190,000 jobs would be added in July.

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With all the trade and tariff talks going on, what players in the global economy will get hurt the most in relative terms?

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On Friday, the second quarter GDP number came out at 4.1%. This number represents the total growth of the U.S. economy, net of inflation.

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We expect GDP to pick up this quarter to anywhere around 3.5% to 4%. We have seen much better consumer spending and business investments in the economy.

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Since 2009, 69% of the S&P 500 companies have beat expectations. After the first quarter of this year 79% have beat expectations.

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The trade tariffs were enacted but the market was up thanks to a good jobs number. There were 213,000 jobs created last month.

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