Market Commentary

Looking Forward

Overview 2022 should be the year of a full global recovery, an end to the pandemic, and a return to normal economic and market conditions that we had prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. We believe that an improved public health situation should result in a release of pent-up demand from consumers for travel and services, [...]

By |2025-05-20T16:46:41+00:00January 13th, 2022|Market Commentary|0 Comments

The Battle is On

A battle between The Fed, Sentiment and Valuation One of the most important drivers, if not the pre-eminent force, propelling asset prices since the Great Financial Crisis has been Central Bank Policy, both here and abroad. The below chart outlines this notion quite dramatically. If current fiscal and monetary policies continue the path they have [...]

By |2025-05-20T16:47:34+00:00July 7th, 2021|Market Commentary|0 Comments

But Not This Year!

How has the market done this year? An easy question one would think. And often, it is quite easy, but not this year. Below is a table of different market indices with performance up to but not including the big dive in the market last Thursday. The second index from the top with the [...]

By |2025-05-20T16:34:30+00:00September 8th, 2020|Market Commentary|0 Comments

Is The Market Overvalued?

Is the Stock Market overvalued? We are going to try to answer this age-old question, but before we do, we want to remind you what we think of valuing the markets. Valuation should never be used to judge if the market should be bought or sold. Valuation is a way to measure the potential for [...]

By |2025-05-20T16:34:18+00:00August 7th, 2020|Market Commentary|0 Comments

Why Has the Market Been So Volatile?

Why did the market go down so much, and why has it rallied so much? The market started the year with upside momentum and the hope that a US China trade deal would help kick start the global economy. The market was up about 10% by February, but the outbreak of Covid-19 quickly derailed the [...]

By |2025-05-20T16:34:05+00:00May 29th, 2020|Market Commentary|0 Comments

Will the Bull Market Continue?

Review and Outlook During the second quarter the market moved modestly higher with a quick pullback in May. Our outlook is for a choppy range in the second half of the year with the bulk of the returns this year having been front loaded. There are many opposing forces the market will have to navigate [...]

By |2021-07-27T19:28:37+00:00July 16th, 2019|Market Commentary|0 Comments

The Bulls and Bears do Battle

Review and Outlook In our January Outlook we noted that “the fundamentals did not support a move much worse than this…as the market had become very oversold in December…we saw significantly large breadth in buying…this combination…rarely results in the market doing materially worse”. What resulted was in fact quite a rally, the extent of which [...]

By |2021-07-27T19:28:37+00:00April 15th, 2019|Market Commentary|0 Comments

Many Crosscurrents!

Review and Outlook In our October outlook we warned of more volatility to come. As it turned out, we got even more volatility than we expected. The market declined 13.5% during Q4, putting the S&P 500 at -4.4% for the year. The average stock in the S&P did even worse as the equal weighted [...]

By |2025-05-20T16:32:41+00:00January 15th, 2019|Market Commentary|0 Comments
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