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May 26, 2025

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived,” General George S. Patton. Happy Memorial Day As we start the official beginning of summer, lets remember what today really means, here are the numbers. The S & P 500 finished the week down 1.70%, […]

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May 19, 2025

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” (after the last 6 weeks I had to use this again) Warren Buffett I have always said that money is the great equalizer, your enemy or rival becomes your friend if the relationship is financially mutually beneficial. But first here […]

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May 5, 2025

“Sell in May and go away” Old Wall Street adage Not so Fast! But first the numbers, the S&P 500 gained 2.85%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average matched it up 2.855 also, Nasdaq led the charge, up 3.37%. Internationally, the FTSE 100 had a good week, up 2.155 and the MSCI-EAFE gained 2.45%. The 2-Year […]

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April 14, 2025

“A little revolution now and then is a healthy thing don’t you think?” Captain Ramius from the Hunt for Red October.   After numerous conversations with many of our clients this week, I felt compelled, with all humility, to try and explain what is happening in this version of our newsletter. Further, as next week […]

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April 7, 2025

“All past market volatility looks like an opportunity, and all future market volatility looks like a risk” Morgan Housel   Panic is not an investment strategy, that said here is the scary results from last week (actually the last two trading days). The S&P 500 lost 8.21% for the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average […]

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July 22, 2024

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson   Folks, we are living through historic times, as I write these words, President Biden has succumbed to the intense pressure to withdraw, this past week we saw an assassination attempt on President Trump, an electric, […]

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April 8, 2024

April 8, 2024 “Know what you own and know why you own it.”  Peter Lynch All good things come to an end. After a stellar first quarter the markets decided to take a breath. Here are the numbers. The S&P 500 lost 1.02%, Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated 2.27%, the Nasdaq trimmed 1.31%, internationally, the […]

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S&P 500 drops on hotter than expected inflation data

Above all else, in other words, the stock market is people. It is people trying to read the future. And it is this intensely human quality that makes the stock market so dramatic an arena, in which men and women pit their conflicting judgements, their hopes and fears, strengths and weaknesses, greeds and ideals. – […]

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Dow gains over 6% and snaps its eight week losing streak

There will be bear markets about twice every 10 years and recessions about twice every 10 or 12 years but nobody has been able to predict them reliably. So the best thing to do is to buy when shares are thoroughly depressed and that means when other people are selling. – John Templeton  After experiencing […]

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Stocks drop as inflation data surges, interest rates rise

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what’s actually happening to the companies in which you have invested. – Peter Lynch Despite mostly better than expected earnings from the big money center banks last week, the major stock averages all […]

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