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Category Archives: Trade War

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 28, 2025

“The market will always go up in the long run. And if it doesn’t, it means the world has basically collapsed and you’ll have far worse to worry about than your index fund.” John C. Bogle Former Vanguard CEO   Here we go again! After a wild ride the past few weeks as the world […]

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April 21, 2025

Happy Easter and Passover.   Here are the numbers from the holiday shortened last week, The S&P 500 lost 2.93%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 3.46%, and the Nasdaq surrendered 4.87%. Internationally, the FTSE 100 had a good week, up 4.58% and the MSCI-EAFE gained 2.62%. The 2-year Treasury paid 3.75% and the 10 […]

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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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March 17, 2025

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! “This too shall pass” Abraham Lincoln After another tumultuous week it is wise to consider these words. But first the numbers. The S&P 500 finished the week off 1.16%, the Dow Jones Industrial average retreated 2.4%, the Nasdaq almost recovered down .48%. Internationally, the FTSE 100 was off .55% and the […]

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February 10, 2025

“All intelligent investing is value investing. You must value the business in order to value the stock.” Charlie Munger Well, its Valentine week, will the market show us some love? First last week, the week started replacing all the losses caused by the tough tariff talk the previous week only to give back some gains […]

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February 3, 2025

“Rule #1: don’t lose money. Rule #2: Don’t forget Rule #1.” Warren Buffett. Happy Groundhog Day! He saw his shadow, so 6 more weeks of cold!   After a very tragic week with two airline crashes taking 74 souls, nothing can be said to alay the horror to their families. That and the continued partisan […]

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Stocks edge lower in volatile week as tensions with China escalate

You can control your portfolio allocation, your own education, who you choose to listen to, what you choose to read, what evidence you choose to pay attention to, and how you respond to certain events. You cannot control what the Fed does, laws Congress sets, the next jobs report, or whether a company will beat […]

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S&P 500 posts first weekly loss in 2020 on coronavirus fears

I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this: that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about. – Alan Greenspan The Dow Jones Industrial Average was a victim of profit-taking last […]

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