The economic fallout from the COVID-19 virus continues to grow, with more events being cancelled and businesses scaling down or altogether suspending operations on a daily basis. In the midst of such widespread consequences, many analysts and pundits have begun to talk about the big R – recession – a word that strikes fear in [...]

You may remember prior posts when I talked about corrections being a process and part of that process is finding a bottom. We look for signals that suggest we are at or near the bottom.  Here are three that offer some encouragement. The market tends to find bottoms that align with previous market bottoms. Areas [...]

Keeping a long-term perspective is always important, but it’s essential when markets are stormy and emotions are running high.  A look at history shows that while markets react to news events in the short term, they have tended to reward patient investors over long periods of time.  Indeed, global markets have shrugged off the impact [...]

The markets continue to ping-pong – up 1,000 / down 1,000 – rattling the nerves of investors and bystanders alike.  Each day is a mirror of the previous.  Everyone seems to be trying to handicap the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy.  Throw in a price war over crude oil (usually a positive [...]

The markets are trading sharply lower this morning and undoubtedly you have heard the news media screaming about plunging oil prices and an expanding numbers of cases of coronavirus and quarantines. It can all be quite unsettling for sure, but know we are monitoring the situation very closely and will get in touch if we [...]