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2018 Q4

Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

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

Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

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

Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

Freeish Trade

In the last commentary we made the following comment:

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

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2018 Q1
Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

Well, look at that...the market does go both ways.

2018 started by continuing the calm, steady, upward market climb we have experienced for the last two

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2017 Q4
Posted on March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

2017 was a banner year for markets. Rarely in history have the markets displayed such consistent increases. We first noted the calm in the market in our 2017

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2017 Q3
Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

Market Update

As the last quarter of 2017 begins, market sentiment continues to be overwhelmingly positive. The calm in the markets we wrote about last quarter

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2017 Q2
Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

Market Update - The Great Complacency

If no news is good news, then all I have is great news for you today. The first half

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2017 Q1
Posted on March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

I don’t know if we could pass a Mother’s Day Resolution right now.

- Representative Matt Gaetz as quoted in the Wall Street Journal March

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2016 Q4
Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

President Donald Trump

Does that look right to you yet? The day after the election I sent a good friend of mine a message...."President Elect Donald J.

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2016 Q3 Quarterly Commentary
Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Blake Stanley

Interest Rates are Low? Who Knew?

The chart below shows the change in the interest rate of the 10 year Treasury bond over the

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2018 Q4

Happy New Year. Last year while writing the year-end commentary, we were contemplating the

2018 Q3

Global Trade - Keeping It Brief

The last two commentaries were largely

2018 Q2

Freeish Trade

In the last commentary we made the following comment:

Well, look at that...the market does go both ways.

2018 started