Investment Climate July 2017: Are We Due for a Correction?
The second quarter of 2017 ended with little fanfare but was rife with speculation that the markets needed at least a correction and...
Investment Climate April 2017
The investment climate continued to improve over the course of the first quarter 2017, reflected by the increasing value of stocks,...
Favorable Winds of Change
The markets reacted to the surprising results of the U.S. Presidential election with a resounding vote of confidence and have raced on to...
Investment Climate October 2016
The stock market recovered nicely in the third quarter after the “panic” over the Brexit vote subsided and the focus turned to the slow...
The Importance of Brexit
What a crazy few weeks in world markets! The second quarter was shaping up to be a decent rebound from the sloppy start in January, but...
We're Bullish...Eight Years and Running!
As we wrote our last Investment Climate, January 2016 had the distinction of being the worst start to a year in history. Well, much as we...
"The Sky is Falling...Again!"
The year 2015 went out with a whimper as major market indices in the U.S. ended relatively flat to down. This is not surprising given...
Get out of the "Market"?
The Fed didn’t raise rates and the market still had a fit. Many continue to say the next crisis is upon us, as they have for years now....
Beyond the Noise
In our last Investment Climate we discussed the long-awaited increase in the Federal Reserve’s target for interest rates. This debate...
To Raise or Not to Raise?
It really shouldn't be a question. Can the world be any more fixated on the next move from the Federal Reserve? Can markets really “hang...