by Bret Wilson | Nov 1, 2022 | Market Commentary
Current Conditions All eyes are still on the Federal Reserve right now. The expectation for the November meeting this week is that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates 75 basis points. A month ago, the Fed clearly sent the message that they would do whatever...
by Bret Wilson | Oct 1, 2022 | Market Commentary
Current Conditions Recently, I have spent a lot of time examining market indexes to identify possible points of support and resistance, and the June lows seem to be a logical point of support. This week the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq indexes both hit that level of...
by Bret Wilson | Sep 15, 2022 | Market Commentary
Ten weeks ago, on July 1, 2022, we were wondering if the stock market had reached the bottom yet. At that time, I wrote that the economic data coming out was not positive and stock buying was not happening at that time, so the markets might not have reached the bottom...
by Bret Wilson | Sep 1, 2022 | Market Commentary
Recently I looked at our family budget to compare how much more we were spending on groceries and fuel in 2022 versus 2021 and 2019. I skipped 2020 as it was such an odd year due to covid. I knew we were spending more even though it felt like we were buying less, so I...
by Bret Wilson | Aug 15, 2022 | Personal
Personally, I don’t care for the word retirement. I prefer to call the time after you finish working at your career “making a life change.” I see it as the moment you can begin living life more on your own terms. But will you be financially secure enough to live off...
by Bret Wilson | Aug 1, 2022 | Market Commentary
Bad News Makes Us Nervous It’s certainly easy to get nervous about your investments after the barrage of bad economic news last week. The Federal Reserve raised its federal funds rate by 75 basis points on Wednesday—the 4th time they have raised it this year. Rates...
by Bret Wilson | Jul 15, 2022 | Market Commentary
In January of 2007, Steve Jobs changed the world as we know it by introducing the iPhone, which essentially put a pocket computer in the hands of the masses. Before long, all types of media became a constant presence in our lives. Kids born this century will have no...
by Bret Wilson | Jul 1, 2022 | Market Commentary
As I have written many times before, it is impossible to time the market, but as Winston Churchill once said, “History repeats itself.” Historically measuring the breadth of the market is one of the indicators that can give us a clue as to how close we are to a market...
by Bret Wilson | Jun 13, 2022 | Market Commentary
We’re all acutely aware of prices at the pump. In fact, my wife showed me a recent Facebook picture of a friend who filled up his pickup truck to the tune of $172.01. We’ll talk more about how high gas prices impacts our bottom line on everything, but let’s dive into...
by Bret Wilson | Jan 6, 2021 | Market Commentary
2021 Economic and Stock Market Preview If you had told me back in March that the market indexes would be setting all time highs by the end of the year, I would have told you to get your head out of the clouds. As I mentioned back in March, the market correction was...
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