Market Commentary 1/26/17

I think I have touched on secular bull or bear markets before, but I wanted to put a little more focus on it in this post.  Most people are familiar with the term bull or bear market but do not know that those markets can be defined in different time frames. Secular...

Market Commentary November 9, 2016

Good morning. Yesterday I wrote in my Market Commentary “recent history has shown that polls can be way off, and the anticipated market reactions can be way off as well”. Well, I’d say the polls were way off and the initial market reaction in futures was way off as...

Market Commentary November 8, 2016

The October 28th FBI announcement that they were looking into more emails that involved Hillary Clinton exacerbated what had already been a short-term weakening in market indexes. This weakening continued through last Friday until the FBI suddenly announced this past...

Market Commentary October 18, 2016

As we pull closer to the end of this election season (Ugh), I’ve gotten a few questions about the impact it could have, if any, on the stock market. Historically elections don’t have much of a long term impact on the price levels of the major indexes. The election of...