A critical concept investors must understand is that markets are forward looking. This means prices reflect the aggregate of all future…

Over the course of the last week the market has experienced extreme volatility. The last three days alone have seen the largest one-day drop since 1987, the largest one-day gain since October 2008…

To say the stock market had a rough start to the week would be an understatement. Newsflow related to the coronavirus continued to deteriorate over the weekend, and Saudi Arabia’s recent decision…

After a string of seven consecutive down days, patient investors finally found some relief yesterday (3/2/20). The S&P 500 gained 4.6%, the largest single day rally since the volatile fourth quarter of 2018, recouping…

First off, I am not a doctor so I am not going to try and discuss viral transmission rates, virology, mortality rates, or try to put COVID-19 into any analogy to make us feel better or worse. Perhaps it’s also true…

The S&P 500 has recently declined roughly 4.7% since registering an all-time high last week (Wednesday). The majority of this fall came yesterday (Monday) with the index falling 3.35%…

The U.S. dollar has been appreciating relative to other currencies, and it is nearing the highest levels since 2017. Currency movements have both direct and indirect impacts on investors…

It has been a rough start to the year for oil, which has entered a bear market after falling over 20% from its early January peak. The market narrative explaining this weakness…

2019 was an excellent year for the stock market with many major indices reaching all-time highs. Whether investors can expect such strong performance to persist depends on why returns were so strong…

Coverage of the Coronavirus outbreak has been dominating headlines over the last few days, and the market seems to have taken notice. For the past several months the S&P 500 has steadily…