Summary First of all, we are happy to report that the fourth quarter of 2022 was a positive one for both stocks and bonds.  This allowed the year to finish…

Summary As hard as it would have been to believe, three months ago, that the stock and bond market could both continue to decline, they both did.  U.S. stocks gave…

Trademark Financial Market Update – August 29, 2022 1) The big news today was always going to be the market reaction to Fed Chairman Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech. Powell wasn’t…

Summary The second quarter was a difficult one for stocks, as the S&P 500 plunged -16.1%[1].  In fact, we’d have to go back to the first quarter of 2020 to…

Trademark Financial Market Update – June 1, 2022 1) Overall: Last week was a great one for risk assets.  Both stocks and bonds had been oversold from a technical perspective…