by David Wagner | Jun 2, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
Market Recap – May 2025: To some, it may feel miraculous that the S&P 500 is now positive on the year – which was a new development during the month. March and April should be categorized as having apocalyptic soft data, which is also known as survey data, but...
by David Wagner | May 30, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
I hope that everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend! We’ll start with two newsworthy pieces: 1. Now that the “One, Big Beautiful Bill” has passed the House and is on its way to the Senate, I’ll start shifting some Musing focus over the...
by David Wagner | May 14, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
First, let’s touch base on Monday’s news: the US and China will temporarily lower tariffs on each other’s products in a move to cool trade tensions and give the world’s two largest economies three more months to resolve their differences. The combined 145%...
by David Wagner | May 5, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
Market Recap – April 2025: The S&P 500 rallied to a one-month high in the last week of the quarter, rising nine straight trading days and recouped virtually all of the post-April 2, “Liberation Day” declines. First and foremost, the Trump administration has...
by David Wagner | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
I’ve had a lot of inbound calls regarding the markets over the past few weeks, so I’d like to start with some historical perspective. As our quarterly newsletter stated, future market returns will always be an unsolved mystery. But what would a recession...