Tom McIntyre: With the news being decipherable, the market will hibernate

Tom McIntyre of McIntyre, Freedman and Flyn says in the Market Call that the wild swings in headlines running from the tumultuous election through the pandemic and the twists and turns of the economy have left investors with few signals to read. He sees the market hibernating while investors try to figure out how to decipher signals, and expects a slow fourth quarter and start to 2021, and he suggests holding more cash than normal while waiting for it to play out. In the Big Interview, Kirk Chisholm of Innovative Advisory Group discusses modern portfolio theory, the 4 percent retirement-spending rule and other basic tenets of personal finance and discusses why those old saws don't serve investors so well any more. Also on the show, David Trainer of New Constructs explains why BOX belongs in the Danger Zone, and Chuck answers a question about funds based on the social (ESG) version of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index.