by Ryan Redfern | Aug 26, 2022 | Market Commentary
While July turned out to be a decent month for most stock and bond indexes, August hasn’t been able to continue that momentum. As of Wednesday’s close, both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 are very close to being flat for the month. And the Aggregate...
by Ryan Redfern | Jul 29, 2022 | Market Commentary
July may end up being the best month of 2022 so far, if it can hold up the gains it made this week, post-Federal Reserve Rate hike. However, the major US indexes still have a ways to go just to get back to where they started at the beginning of this year. ...
by Ryan Redfern | Jun 24, 2022 | Market Commentary
As we are near the finish of the first half of 2022, most major stock markets have continued the ugliness that began right at the first of the year. As of Wednesday, June 22nd, the year-to-date numbers on the S&P 500 are near -20% and the NASDAQ 100 is down...
by Ryan Redfern | May 27, 2022 | Market Commentary
After an exceptionally ugly April 2022, with the S&P 500 (SPY) down -8.78% and the Nasdaq (QQQ) down -13.60%, market ugliness continued into May – just not as dramatically. So far in May (through the 25th) the SPY is down -3.55% and QQQ is down -7.02%. ...
by Ryan Redfern | Apr 29, 2022 | Market Commentary
Market Volatility continues. While the second half of March started to look like the stock market environment was improving, April came in and immediately changed that back to negative. And for most of the month, the major stock (and surprisingly the bond)...
by Ryan Redfern | Mar 25, 2022 | Market Commentary
After an exceptionally rough start to 2022, the stock markets seem to be taking a short break from the ugliness we have continually seen until the past week. That’s a lot of negative days and very few positive ones so far this year. However, at the very...