Insights

Emerging Market Asset Allocation It would be unthinkable to put together an investment portfolio today that did not include Apple,...

Summary The stock market’s recovery from the COVID-influenced market sell-off in March accelerated last quarter as multiple...

Global stock markets, almost every single one, have been hitting on all cylinders lately.  In fact, some of the best recent performance...

A “Blue Wave” trade developed over the past two weeks in which investors bought stocks that would theoretically benefit from a potential...

Summary The U.S. stock market gained 8.9%<1> last quarter as investors gained confidence that the worst of the COVID 19 crisis was...

The Fed Not much to say about the U.S. stock market overall.  I’ve been reading a lot of analogies lately, so here is mine:  Imagine...

Summary Stock prices rebounded sharply last quarter as investors began to anticipate an economic recovery.  Whether the recovery...

Investors are herd creatures.  We can’t help it; 100,000 years of programming is hard to unlearn.  That said, what enabled our ancestors...

SUMMARY It probably comes as a surprise to no one, but the first quarter of 2020 was the worst first quarter in modern market history. ...

Exactly one month ago (February 19, 2020), the S&P 500 made a high just above 3393 before closing at 3384.  We didn’t know it at the...

THE NEW GOLD RUSH Welcome to the new gold rush.  There is a feeling in the investment world that we are in an Age of Disruption that is...

Summary 2019 closed on a high note for stocks as interest rate cuts fueled a speculative boom which has continued into 2020.  Against a...

What a difference a year makes!   The year-over-year gain from Christmas Eve 2018 to the same day in 2019 was close to 40%!<1>  We went...

As the markets moved into September there was a lot of fear.  As measured by GDP, purchasing managers, and the Institute for Supply...

SUMMARY The third quarter of 2019 paled in comparison to the previous two quarters as global weakness and trade fatigue combined to...

Thoughts ahead of this week’s Federal Reserve meeting: Investors expect that the Federal Reserve will ease 25 basis points. This time...

Investors expect that the Federal Reserve will ease 25 basis points and that stocks will rally as a result. My feeling is that since this...

SUMMARY The second quarter of 2019 is in the books, as they say, and it was another good one for both stocks and bonds.  US equities...

The S&P 500 is up close to 4% since the last Update and about 6.5% since the June 3rd low.<1>  And yet, nothing really seems different in...

Summary Stocks rebounded sharply in the first quarter as investors reacted favorably to the Federal Reserve’s change of heart on...