Weekly Market Commentary October 28, 2024 The Markets Financial markets appear to have pre-election jitters. The United States election is less than two weeks away. The candidates are neck and neck. The outcome remains uncertain. And expectations for volatility have…
Weekly Market Commentary October 21, 2024 The Markets Happy birthday! The bull market in stocks charged past its two-year birthday on October 12. “This unique bull market is still young relative to history and, for now, supported by relatively…
Weekly Market Commentary October 14, 2024 The Markets There was a lot to celebrate last week! The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed above 5,800 for the first time—and that’s not all. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Weekly Market Commentary October 07, 2024 The Markets Living the realities of risk and reward. Asset allocation is important because it helps investors manage the risk and rewards of investing. In general, investments have different levels of risk and the…
Investors & Friends, Here in this first week in October, the velocity of news from home and abroad kicked up several gears as flooding decimated parts of Appalachia, the escalating conflict in the Middle East threatened to further draw in…
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Weekly Market Commentary September 30, 2024 The Markets The Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index hit a new all-time high last week. The S&P 500 has had quite a year. Despite a sharp downturn in August when investor confidence was…
Weekly Market Commentary September 23, 2024 The Markets Rates moved lower and stocks moved higher. In 2022, the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) began raising interest rates as it battled high rates of inflation. That year prices rose 8 percent,…
Weekly Market Commentary September 16, 2024 The Markets There was a lot of good news last week! Inflation continued to trend lower. The Consumer Price Index showed that inflation was 2.5 percent year over year (yoy)…
Weekly Market Commentary September 09, 2024 The Markets Investing in September can be like biting into a jelly doughnut and finding boiled cabbage—full of unwelcome surprises. “History suggests September is the worst month of the year in terms of stock-market…