May 2022 Market Commentary

May 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%. ...
April 2022 Market Commentary

April 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)...
March 2022 Market Commentary

March 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...
February 2022 Market Commentary

February 2022 Market Commentary

When looking at possible issues the stock market could face in the first quarter of 2022, we never thought a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be on the list.  As usual, the biggest factors are the ones we can’t yet see or even perceive.  Interestingly,...
January 2022 Market Commentary

January 2022 Market Commentary

Well, that got ugly fast.  The S&P 5001 is now in range to achieve the largest loss in January going back to 1928 (reuters.com).  The previous January with the largest loss was in 2009 when the market started its last leg down of the 2008 recession...
December 2021 Market Commentary

December 2021 Market Commentary

Wow, here we are wrapping up another year.  The S&P 5001 was surprisingly one of the stronger markets around the globe this year, even outpacing the NASDAQ (a rare occurrence in the past couple of decades).  On the other hand, traditional “diversifiers”...