Investment Climate April 2024: Wither the Interest Rate
The first quarter of 2024 ended with most major stock market indices in positive territory with large and mid-size indices up around 10%...
Investment Climate January 2024: The Question of Our Time, Part VII
In writing the quarterly Investment Climate, we often pause and contemplate the mere fact that we are even bothering to write about a...
Investment Climate Oct 2023: Risk Off?
The third quarter of 2023 was marred by yet more consternation over the impact of higher interest rates on the economy and markets and in...
Investment Climate July 2023: Embrace the Volatility!
We will dispense the formalities of reporting the news this quarter and jump right into the point which we almost always end up making:...
Investment Climate April 2023: The Fed, Banks and Business
In the first quarter of 2023, markets continued the wildly volatile ride that they have been on for some time now, ending the quarter up...
Investment Climate January 2023: Rip Van Winkle Revisited
The troubled year 2022 has come to a close, and with it has ended our worst year ever (by far) of investment returns on our portfolio...