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Trade War or Tit for Tat?
April 4, 2018Tensions have risen between the U.S. and China as both nations have proposed implementing tariffs as they jockey for position in…
Read MoreDoes Anybody Remember What a Correction Feels Like?
February 6, 2018In case anybody forgot, the past week is a reminder that the markets don’t always go straight up. With the S&P…
Read MoreAnd So It Begins…
September 21, 2017The Federal Reserve met and made two important decisions on policy — balance sheet normalization and the direction of future overnight…
Read MoreTrump Wins, Trump Wins — Uh-Oh, What Now?
November 9, 2016Wow. Our Brexit moment! We just witnessed a political revolution in the U.S. that hasn’t been seen since Ronald Reagan in…
Read MoreBrexit Wins
June 24, 2016The U.K. voted to leave the European Union after more than four decades in a stunning rejection of the continent’s postwar…
Read MoreRunning From Junk
December 16, 2015Tony Soslow, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager The markets turned volatile again last week as developments in China and the energy markets…
Read MoreGlobal Turmoil While the U.S. Market Stays Hooked on Low Rates
October 21, 2015Equity The third quarter of 2015 finally brought a long-awaited correction to the global equity markets. By any measure, the correction…
Read MoreStay Calm While Others Panic
August 25, 2015Stay calm while others panic — easier said than done. Warren Buffett is famous for saying, “Be fearful when others are…
Read MoreGreece and Puerto Rico Spark Global Volatility
June 30, 2015The Greek Tragedy Unfolds Before Our Eyes More than five years after first entering investors’ view, the Greek drama has again…
Read MoreOne Week Crush: What’s Next?
August 5, 2014The global equity and credit markets took it on the chin last week as a series of geopolitical and economic headlines…
Read MoreSell in May and Go Away?
May 12, 2014The U.S. markets have gone through a sharp rotational correction over the past two months. Growth, small cap, and high beta…
Read MoreTop or Pause that Refreshes?
April 11, 2014The market has been experiencing a rotational correction over the past month and a half with aggressive sectors giving back a…
Read MoreTaper Rally
December 20, 2013The taper of 2013 finally happened, and the market didn’t tank. In fact, the market had a banner day on the…
Read MoreGovernment Shutdown — What Does It Mean?
October 31, 2013At midnight on September 30th the government officially shutdown with non-essential staff being furloughed. There has been a lot of fear mongering…
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