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Falling Interest Rates & The Market

I hope you are all well.  Fall is in the air in Asheville with some nights cool enough to leave the windows open. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to begin a series of rate cuts when their meeting concludes on Wednesday. There is still debate among the talking heads about whether the cut will [...]

By |2024-09-16T16:04:35+00:00September 16th, 2024|Market Commentary|

Dow 40,000 and the Rule of 72

Last week, both the Dow and the S&P 500 hit new all-time highs. The Dow ended the day Friday just above the very large, very round number of 40,000.  Such highs typically generate a lot of headlines and in turn client questions. Typical questions include: how can the market be so high – just look [...]

By |2024-05-20T15:20:07+00:00May 20th, 2024|Market Commentary|

A Perspective on the Banks

I hope you are all well and enjoying a beautiful spring. Asheville is blooming and the longer and warmer days are a welcome change to the gray, rainy winter. Over the past year, the news of several bank failures and other banks requiring capital injections have surfaced memories of the 2008/09 financial crisis. That’s not [...]

By |2024-03-19T19:51:41+00:00March 19th, 2024|Market Commentary|

Monitoring Stress

I hope you are all well and enjoying a great holiday season! One question/comment I consistently hear from clients relates to current events (government shutdowns, deficit spending, wars) and the worry that the market is heading toward a cliff.  I spend a lot of time scanning the horizon looking for coming cliffs. The market goes [...]

By |2024-01-22T18:06:35+00:00December 6th, 2023|Market Commentary|

Markets & Indexes

I hope you are well and enjoying a beautiful fall.  The colors here in Asheville are spectacular. The market was down again this week and has entered a correction.  (A correction is defined as being down 10% from recent highs.)  You have likely heard a variety of explanations – from the Congressional problems surrounding the [...]

By |2023-10-28T15:37:50+00:00October 28th, 2023|Market Commentary|
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