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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 turn of the calendar to September is often bittersweet, as it means the summer is in our rear view; however, for investors to see this particular August come to an end, is likely welcome. The volatility in the markets picked up quite a bit in this last month of summer, and likely caused some investor [...]
Over the past weeks, volatility picked up in response to the trade deal with China (or lack thereof). For much of this year, we’ve expected the trade deal to go through and for news related to China to fade from the front page of the papers. However, that all changed and President Trump is keeping [...]
We hope you have had a good start to 2019! The New Year is shaping up quite nicely. The markets have recovered well from the December lows, although not back to the all-time highs from early October. We think the market reaction to events late last year was overblown and that the January/February recovery was [...]
Despite the historical bias for December being the best-performing month for the S&P 500 going back to 1950, the market volatility certainly hasn’t let up in December 2018. As a matter of fact, the NYSE Bullish Percent, which is our guide to risk levels in the U.S, equity markets, reversed back into a column of [...]
The past two months of this year's market action have been frustrating. However, most of the signs we are watching are positive for US equities in the short, intermediate, and long terms. Domestic equities are still strongly holding their place as the number one spot in the world to be invested. This is important to [...]
October 2018, historically a scary month for investors, did not disappoint in terms of bringing on an increased level of volatility to the market, which often delivers many new opportunities to invest at lower prices. February and October are usually the worst-performing months of the year. Typically, in the month of February, after a good [...]
