Widening high-yield bond spreads preceded the start of the stock market downturns in 2000 and 2008, causing many to ask if the latest bout of high-yield weakness portends another downturn.

Although we expect average returns for stocks in 2016, the path to reach them will be anything but routine.

Companies continue to buy back their own shares at a near record pace. We do not see buybacks as an indication that corporate management teams are less optimistic about the future.

Our thoughts are with the victims of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. Here we look back at history to assess potential market impacts of Friday’s tragedy.

European earnings have disappointed relative to expectations and may suggest tempering near-term expectations for European stocks.

You have to really hunt to find red in October. October 2015 was a great month for stocks, as the S&P 500 Index rose 8.3% to help take the index from a year-to-date loss of over 9% on August 25, 2015, to a 1% gain as of Friday, October 30, 2015.