Ron Phillips

2 weeks ago | advisorstream.com | Lewis Braham |Ron Phillips

By Lewis Braham April 4, 2025 Markets hate uncertainty. Yet the risk tolerance of individual investors varies. Some can tolerate more uncertainty than others. A few can even profit from the volatility that chaos brings. President Donald Trump has proved himself to be an agent of chaos with his aggressive tariffs and attacks on government agencies.

2 weeks ago | advisorstream.com | Jeff Sommer |Ron Phillips

By Jeff Sommer April 4, 2025 The mood has darkened in the U.S. stock market, and no wonder. Pessimism about the Trump tariffs has set off painful declines. But the picture has been less dire for people with investments outside the U.S. stock market. Holding plenty of bonds and including stakes in international stock markets were keys to stability and, maybe, even modestly positive returns in the first three months of the year.

3 weeks ago | advisorstream.com | Imani Moise |Ron Phillips

By Imani Moise April 1, 2025 If you buy a pair of shoes and choose the option to pay later, it could show up on your credit report. Affirm, one of the largest “buy now, pay later” lenders, on Tuesday will begin furnishing all new loans to Experian, similar to how a mortgage or car loan shows up on your credit report. So far, the change to this fast-growing form of consumer debt only applies to Affirm loans and Experian credit reports.

1 month ago | advisorstream.com | Brigid Mander |Ron Phillips

By Brigid Mander March 24, 2025 It took less than a minute from when we pushed my friends’ raft into the green current for the chaos and complications of the modern world to fall away. Drifting down the Upper San Juan River in southern Utah, life slowed to the speed of the river and the rhythm of nature. Over the next four days, sheer cliffs rose above the water; great blue herons fished, wildlife went about their business unperturbed on the banks.

1 month ago | advisorstream.com | James Mackintosh |Ron Phillips

By James Mackintosh March 14, 2025 Anyone trying to make sense of the stock-market plunge by focusing on President Trump’s tariff yo-yo was left scratching their head at the start of this week. Shares in Tesla, run by Trump’s chainsawer-in-chief Elon Musk, plummeted 15% on Monday to take them back below where they were before the election.