Financial Commentary – Public

After touching historic highs in mid-February, US stock indexes slumped, with most technology winners of the past three years falling into a meaningful correction. All told, it was a first quarter that began on a positive note as markets cheered what they hoped would be a Trump 2.0 administration focused on deregulation and tax cuts. […]

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A second year of healthy growth for financial assets in the United States has, for most observers, put an end to talk of a “soft landing” or a “hard landing.” As I observed last quarter, the economy has landed, and the reason some have not noticed is because it was and is an amazingly soft […]

As your statistical report will likely show, this has been a nice quarter, a nice year and a nice twelve months for most clients. While technology company shares took a breather and went into a consolidation phase, a broader cohort of equities saw renewed interest and resulted in an overall positive performance of both domestically […]

The inevitable correction in technology was due and wild suggestions by politicians is the supposed excuse. I believe the secular growth of AI related tech stocks is unstoppable, and that while this correction may be uncomfortable for a few weeks, we are likely to find a positive resolution before year end.

7/18/24 – The Guardian: […]

As the chart below shows, this has been a good year, so far, for the broad Standard & Poor’s U.S. stock index. Driving this performance has been a handful of powerful technology issues. Absent these companies, the index’s rise would have been OK but nothing to get excited about.

Fortunately, most clients owned the technology darlings, […]

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The past three months saw a continuation of a tech stock driven market rally, and as non-tech stocks also began to rally, confirmed that a sustainable bull market is in motion.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is up 10.16% so far this year and up 29.71% over the past 12 months.

U.S. interest rates, based on […]

The major US and world stock indices had a volatile year in 2023, influenced by various factors such as the banking crisis, Federal Reserve Board policy, inflation, and geopolitical tensions. Here is a brief summary of their performance:

The capitalization weighted S&P 500 gained 24.2%, driven primarily by a handful of technology companies that came to […]

“…the Fed Board seems to be convinced that inflation must be stopped at all costs, so there is a good chance they will overshoot. Employment remains strong as does consumer spending. Resistance to inflationary price hikes appears to be absent. Therefore, I would not be surprised to see 10 Year T-bonds at 6%, even near 7% before […]