Reading Time: 2 minutes Monthly Market Summary The S&P 500 Index returned +5.6% during November, outperforming the Russell 2000 Index’s +2.2% return. Cyclical sectors outperformed during November, with Materials (+11.7%) and Industrials (+7.8%) as the top two...
Reading Time: 8 minutes Market Searches for Direction During Third Quarter At the risk of being repetitive, financial markets were unsettled and volatile during the third quarter. In a continuation of the year-to-date trend, the stock market’s trend changed multiple...
Reading Time: 6 minutes For most Americans, few of us have ever known a stagflationary macroeconomic environment. And for over a decade, the U.S. has benefited from consistent (if at times low) GDP growth, with only brief and temporary blips along the way. While we...
Reading Time: 7 minutes Looking Back at a Rocky First Half of 2022 Financial markets remained unsettled and volatile during the second quarter. The stock market’s trend changed multiple times as investors continued to search for direction amid a sea of changing...
Reading Time: 3 minutes April 2022 Market Recap The S&P 500 Index produced a -8.8% total return during April, outperforming the Russell 2000 Index’s -9.9% total return. Consumer Staples was the only S&P 500 sector to produce a positive return during April’s...
