Q2 2024 MARKET COMMENTARY
2024 has continued the trends of where 2023 left off. The growth rate of inflation has continued to slowly come down, the economy has...
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Q1 2024 Market Commentary
After a rough year in the financial markets in 2022, it was a strong year in 2023. However, according to Barron’s magazine, just a...
Q4 2023 Market Commentary
DOWNLOAD The summer months are historically the weakest months in the market and this year was no exception. The S&P 500 and the Dow...
Q3 2023 Market Commentary
Download The Consumer Price Index, the key inflation gauge that measures price changes for a basket of goods and services, increased 4%...
Q2 2023 Market Commentary
In this commentary we discuss the indicators that suggest inflation may be easing, and how that will help the financial markets. We will...
Q1 2023 Market Commentary
DOWNLOAD As we head into the New Year, we finish the worst year in the financial markets since the “2008-2009 Great Recession.” The...
Q4 2022 Market Commentary
DOWNLOAD Inflation is the biggest problem facing the stock market today, and is primarily responsible for the fourth worst performing...
Q3 2022 Market Commentary
Download After a great ten-year run in the financial markets, the first six months of 2022 has been the worst start to a year since 1932....
Q2 2022 Market Commentary
DOWNLOAD For the first quarter of 2022, the major market indexes finished down for the first time in two years, with the technology...
Q1 2022 Market Commentary
Download Inflation, even if it slows down later in the year, and a tighter monetary policy will put pressure on the market in 2022. We...
Q4 2021 Market Commentary
DOWNLOAD As we head into the final quarter of the year, September has once again lived up to its track record of being the worst month of...
Q3 2021 Market Commentary
DOWNLOAD As the economy begins to open up, inflation has begun to rear its ugly head. In this commentary, we will highlight why inflation...
Q2 2021 Market Commentary
DOWNLOAD As we head into spring, the Federal Reserve has updated its forecast and is now projecting the U.S. economy to recover more...
Q1 2021 Market Commentary
DOWNLOAD Clients have asked us how the stock market could rally from a near 40% drop in March of last year, when the country has gone...
Q4 2020 Market Commentary
Download In February of this year the unemployment rate stood at a fifty-year low of 3.5% and stocks were standing at an all-time high....
Q3 2020 Market Commentary
Download Despite a weakened economy due to COVID-19, double-digit unemployment rates, and many sectors of the economy still down...
Q2 2020 Market Commentary
At the end of 2019, when news of the Coronavirus first broke out, the Chinese government denied that the virus could be spread person to...
Q1 2020 Market Commentary
Change in Federal Reverse interest rate policy spur large gains in 2019 The equity markets had a robust 2019 spurred by changes in...
Q4 2019 Market Commentary
Downloadable Version Throughout the past two years, in both 2017 and 2018, the domestic U.S. economy has been solid. Over the past few...
Q3 2019 Market Commentary
Downloadable Version In this commentary we will discuss the economy and talk about why the Fed has reversed course on interest rates, and...
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