Microsoft is set to report earnings after the bell Thursday. Katie Stockton of Fairlead Strategies and Nancy Tengler of Butcher Joseph Asset Management lay out what to expect.

My mom, Tobie, worked two jobs, seven days a week from the time my dad walked out on my 10th birthday until she was almost 70 years old. She was grateful for the work – a full-time job as a supply clerk with the U.S. government and a part-time job (evenings and weekends) at Macy’s. In her 70s, after she retired, she worked part-time at the local middle school (until well into her 80s) – insisting, however, that she have Thursdays off for tap dancing lessons. 

Day to day, stocks seem to flail around like lotto balls in a gravity-pick machine.  Frenetic, directionless and wild.  Over the long-term, however, stock prices are fueled by economic and earnings growth and behave rationally. Let’s examine the facts.  

Facebook has gone full crypto, unveiling its digital currency, Libra. Matt Maley of Miller Tabak and Nancy Tengler of ButcherJoseph Asset Management discuss what’s next for the social media stock.

Matt Maley of Miller Tabak and Nancy Tengler of ButcherJoseph Asset Management discuss Beyond Meat’s new highs with CNBC’s Mike Santoli.

Stock prices are driven by company earnings, influenced by interest rates and sensitive to economic growth. Other factors affect stocks to be sure, and anyone — including the pundits — who tells you how stocks will perform in the near term are either lucky or reckless. Careers have been made and lost on one big market timing call. The odds are very low for getting in and getting out at the right time. Remaining invested is a much better long-term strategy.  

Technology stocks took a nosedive over regulatory fears. Tengler Wealth Management chief investment strategist Nancy Tengler with more. She also provides insight into trade talks.

Nancy Tengler, Chief Investment Strategist of ButcherJoseph Asset Management and Tengler Wealth Management, and Craig Callahan of ICON Advisers discuss markets on CNBC’s “The Exchange.”

Of course, the deepening trade war with China is the most important to date. The battle, in addition to tariffs, has widened to potentially include further bans on Chinese companies doing business in the U.S. as China may move to cut off the U.S. from the supply of rare minerals used in all manner of technology and consumer goods.

However, there is a long list of worries that the market is failing to climb.

“We do more research, we’re less competitive so we have all the instincts that you need to be a good investor. We can multi task between left and right brain and you need to be able to do that to be a good investor so it’s a crime in my view that women don’t engage more in the process,” Nancy Tengler, Chief Investment Strategist with ButcherJoseph Asset Management said.