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Turn on the tv, open a newspaper, or even when you're out with friends, you'll no doubt hear about what the stock market did today.

Or so far today.

Or worse...where they're sure it's going next.

We were pleased to be a sponsor for the inaugural King's Daughters Child Care Center Dragon Boat Race this weekend. Over 500 people came together at Wheeling's Heritage Port, for the first running of Dragon Boats in the Ohio Valley. 

Wow, what a month August has turned out to be!

After trading essentially sideways for the better part of 12 months, most major stock market indexes have crossed the threshold to be considered a correction.

Correction - a decline of at least 10% in the value of stocks

In times of "crisis", it can be easy to be swayed by salacious reports in the media predicting doom and gloom. Sure, the current situation in Greece is concerning, and even scary to a degree.

Happy New Year!

Just as reliable as the ball dropping in Times Square each year, you can expect to see financial magazines showing you all the best places to invest your money in the new year.

Not unlike the ads for tax relief, investment magazines play on your desires to get rich quick to sell their year end issues.

Despite a bumpy ride throughout 2014, the US economy gained pace while the US equity and fixed income markets outperformed most markets around the world. This performance came with higher market volatility in the US, a rallying dollar, slowing economies in Europe and Asia, and rising geopolitical tensions, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.