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If you bought bonds at generational lows last week and now you have losses – never mind.  If you sold your stocks recently because you thought new tariffs put additional pressure on [...]

What is noise as opposed to what is real becomes obvious in hindsight. Both the bond markets and stock markets around the world are responding to fears of a global slowdown and perhaps recessions [...]

No doubt about it, the U.S. and China are in a full-blown trade war.  There have been a few cease fires along the way, but these didn’t hold.  Stock markets all over the world [...]

More than one-half of the S&P 500 companies have reported and more than 75% have beaten their earnings expectations.  In addition, second half 2019 profit and revenue outlooks are coming [...]

Investors looking for a definitive picture of the economy and investing backdrop are not finding one.  Some companies are doing well while others are struggling.  Those that sell into [...]

Earnings season is now underway.  It’s still early, so it’s not realistic to draw any general conclusions.  So far, there are some contradictory data points; the consumer [...]

Nervous yet? It wouldn’t be unusual; after all, popular stock market averages are up 15-20% through the first half of 2019.  Concern is common, investors seem to be more jittery [...]

Stock markets have had this recurring nightmare ever since the recovery from the 2007-2009 financial crisis; “this is the end.”  Now that the recovery and bull market are over 10 [...]

More than just sector rotations, the U.S. stock market has been toggling between defense and growth.  One day investors buy up companies with defensive characteristics then within days these [...]

Some of our investors periodically ask us, “how are the money flows?”  They know we keep track of this metric.  The measurement is actually an indirect one and more [...]