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Market Update: Taming the Bear

June 22, 2022

You’ve heard we’re in a bear market. We don’t particularly care for that term because it only helps stoke  investors’ fears. Too much ink is wasted on deciding when a bottom occurs during “bear” markets. It is a fool’s  errand.  The current investment climate is concerning. The weakness we’re seeing in stock and bond prices […]

Heightened Volatility – Stay the Course

May 19, 2021

In our last quarterly commentary, “A Nervous Bull”, we discussed how a little bit of investor worry actually fuels abull market. The volatility of the past week has not changed our opinion. In fact, we believe the type of pullback weare seeing in stocks is a welcome event and should propel the market higher, potentially […]

The Nervous Bull

March 19, 2021

There’s a phrase on Wall Street that the stock market climbs a “wall of worry”. We’ve referenced it in past notes when describing the sentiment among market participants. The nervousness you may have about investing right now, as stocks notch all-time highs, is shared by many investors. That, quite simply, is what creates the wall […]

A Year of Extremes

February 20, 2021

What is the best way to sum up 2020? Strange? Anxiety-ridden? Tumultuous? How about “extreme”? In every facet of life — dealing with a deadly pandemic, our home lives where both work and school have been confined to our houses, our political environment – the volume has been turned up to eleven. There has been […]

The GameStop Frenzy

January 29, 2021

The trading hysteria in shares of video game retailer, Gamestop (GME), is the result of a number of intersecting, overlapping trends. Is it the story of a powerful hedge fund being taken down by an army of retail traders? Partly. Market manipulation? Probably. Without question the dramatic price swings of the stock is incredibly unpredictable […]

Election Results – Market Reaction

November 4, 2020

We are hearing from a lot of clients as to our opinion on the market reaction regarding this historic election. I’ll attempt to frame it with the information we currently have, but as we all know, this is an extremely fluid situation.