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Market Breadth Broadens in 2026: Mid-Year Outlook
This commentary was prepared for clients on July 2, 2026. The second quarter ended very differently than it began. When we last wrote in April, markets were wrestling...
A Step Ahead of the Business Cycle: Recap 2022 Client Event!
This year, we celebrate 45 years in business and could not be more proud of this team and are honored to have worked with some of the best clients. YOU are the reason we're able...
A Golden Way to Protect Yourself from Inflation
Wow, in 2021 inflation surged to its highest rate in 40 years! This might not be a huge shock if you shop for groceries or fill up at the pump, but should you be concerned? While...
45 Years – Quality. Stability. Confidence.
Congratulations! We are pleased to report 2021 was a strong year! In fact, stocks have now advanced over the last seven consecutive quarters! This year’s path was unusually...
Worries, Worries, Worries… And Reasons to Stay Optimistic!
Summer doldrums plagued the markets as stocks traded in an erratic price range that became especially volatile as the quarter ended. Investors turned more cautious as a wide...
Impending Super Cycle Commodity Signal Argues Against Transitory Inflation
Aging demographics, technological innovation and an ever -expanding debt overhang are three reasons why inflation has been largely kept under wraps in the last three decades....
Grateful for the first half… Gains likely to Moderate Ahead
The stock market continued its blistering rally off of the pandemic lows set in March 2020. Indeed, gains were achieved in the last five consecutive quarters—an extraordinary...
What A Difference A Year Makes
It is hard to imagine that only one year ago investors braced themselves for Armageddon as the Covid pandemic and related lockdowns suddenly gripped the world. Stock prices,...
Good Riddance 2020, Happy New Year
Stocks enjoyed a solid quarterly performance, which added to the very strong recovery from March’s major market low. While 2020 started off on a smooth growth trajectory, nobody...
Five Charts that Make the Case for a Bull Market in Commodities
A year ago, as the economy was emerging from its third slowdown following the financial crisis, commodity prices looked set to move higher. However, due to the pandemic lockdown,...
Increasingly Positive Outlook!
In ways that nobody could have imagined, 2020 has been a highly turbulent year and certainly one for the history books. The longest economic expansion in U.S. history ended early...
Five Reasons for Being Bullish Despite a 60% Advance
The S&P Composite has rallied close to 60% since late March, making a historic and remarkable round trip in a short period of time. You would think that after such a move it...
A Welcome Market Rally… But Caution Still Warranted!
Despite troubling headlines of ongoing virus concerns and terrible unemployment numbers, the stock market pivoted direction in late March and embarked on its best quarterly...