“After a strong start to the year driven by institutional investors, skepticism over the sustainability of the rally is now unanimously in question as bears begin to wrestle control from the bulls,” said Mark Hackett, chief of investment research at Nationwide. This pretty much sums up what we have been observing since the start of…
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January’s return surprised pretty much the entirety of investors including Wall Street. As of month end January 2023 most investors remained unconvinced by last month’s rally sitting on one of the largest money market balances since September 2021. Recall 2022 wiped out TRILLIONS of dollars in market value. Not to mention, January has seen a…
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For 2022, the Dow Jones declined -8.8%, the S&P 500 lost -19.4%, and the Nasdaq collapsed by -33.1%! It is essential to say that the annual percentage declines for all three indexes were the biggest since the 2008 financial crisis! Moreover, sanctuary could not be found in bonds. The U.S. Federal Reserve hiked the benchmark…
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After Wall Street’s worst year in more than a decade, investors approaching December and the year ahead probably want to know if things will get worse before they improve. It’s never a good idea to predict too far into the future. After all, few would have thought in late 2019 that a pandemic would soon…
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Winter is coming: What we know What we know is that the S&P 500 hit an all-time high of 4,818.62 on January 4. We also know that it hit a low of 3,491.58 on October 13. There have been a lot of changes since January 4 – war in Ukraine, Covid related supply chain issues,…
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U.S. stocks are rallying to begin the new week, month and quarter, bouncing back after the S&P 500 posted its sixth week of declines in seven last week. But what did we learn from last month? Read our commentary below and share your thoughts.
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Happy Labor Day!!! Last month stocks fell as investors focused on the likelihood of more interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve. There was also profit taking after July’s big rally. Only two (2) sectors were positive in August, Energy and Utilities. Interestingly, Healthcare was the second worst performer on the month, despite being…
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Good afternoon, Anyone following the market last week was probably breathing a sigh of relief as we FINALLY saw a market that led to some pretty big gains for the week. Ultimately this padded returns for the month end which were brutal the first half of the year. The Federal Reserve was central to last…
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Headlines that reinforced a slower growth environment were persistent last week, but just as persistent — or resilient we should say — was the stock market. It did not let the growth worries get it down. In fact, the markets traded through the growth worries to a winning week that was looking a lot better…
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Earnings season is kicking off and a federal rate hike spooked investors last week, but news was not as bad as many feared. Although we can breathe a sigh of relief, inflation numbers and other factors still point to an impending recession. iPlan continues to monitor leading economic indicators to determine when it will be…
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