2019 Q3

The third quarter brought a lot of movement in the domestic stock market but by September 30^th the S&P 500 had not gone far from where it started the quarter.

2019 Q2

The resilience of the US Stock Market continued in the 2^nd quarter.  The economy is still growing, although more signs of a slowdown are appearing.  Due to some good posturing, Q1

2019 Q1

If you were looking for a little encouragement after a volatile December, the 1^st quarter did not disappoint.  Global markets strongly bounced back, clocking in gains that would be considered

2018 Q4

Happy New Year.    Last year while writing the year-end commentary, we were contemplating the Zen-like calm that had taken over the markets.  Nothing could scare investors: rising interest rates...no biggie;

2018 Q3

Global Trade - Keeping It Brief

The last two commentaries were largely focused on the developing global trade war...which country has said what, who's threatened who with

2018 Q2

Freeish Trade

In the last commentary we made the following comment: 

Will there be a trade war?  In our opinion, it seems unlikely.  Thus