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...
by Ryan Redfern | Feb 24, 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,...
by Ryan Redfern | Jan 28, 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...
