Last week a handful of Chinese based technology stocks and American-based media stocks posted steep declines. The price drops of the hardest hit ranged from 23% to a massive 62%. …
Update: 3/22/21
Late last year, and again in January, we looked at how the 2020-21 stock market recovery from the Covid-19 crash was tracking the 2008-2009 stock market recovery. The similarities in …
Update: 3/15/21
At the beginning of March, we examined the recent bond market sell off and asked, “why you should I care?” For pure bond investors, the answer is straight forward – …
Update: 3/8/21
Over the last two weeks we have seen a substantial increase in market volatlity, first downward then upward. Talk of bubbles popping and major corrections on rising treasury yields seemed …
Update: 3/1/21
The market for US treasury bonds has been having a tough time of late. The yield on the 10-year note (which moves in the opposite direction of its price) started …
Update: 2/22/21
With stocks powering to new highs on an almost daily basis over the past few months, it seems like a good time to start asking questions such as: How long …
Update:2/15/21
Consideration for Managing Your 401k As You Switch Employers As financial planners, we often have our first encounters with clients seeking assistance as a result of major life changes: marriage, …
Update 2/8/21
“People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whom have …
Update: 2/1/21
GameStop and the January 2021 Short Squeeze “Buy low, sell high” Pretty straightforward, right? You buy something, wait for it to go up, and then when it does you sell …
Update: 1/25/21
A tale of two recoveries, revisited Back in mid-December, we presented a chart of QQQ (the exchange traded fund that tracks the Nasdaq 100 index) and showed how it was …