Q1 2023 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on April 12th, 2023

March saw the financial markets extend this quarter’s rebound from the brutal 2022, both from a headline perspective and within most sectors. Still, stocks ended […]

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January 2023 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on February 3rd, 2023

January was a good month for investors, with markets ending higher despite concerns that the economy may be headed toward a significant slowdown or even […]

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Inflation- The Trend Continued

By Clint Edgington
Posted on January 17th, 2023

In our 2021 market review, we discussed the sources of our current inflationary economy and assumed it would continue.  And continue it did, negatively impacting […]

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October 2022 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on November 1st, 2022

After a rough September, markets rebounded in October with the first monthly gain since July. After two quarters of contracting, GPD growth came in higher […]

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Q3 2022 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on October 4th, 2022

The Fed’s rate increases are not slowing inflation as quickly as hoped. After remaining flat for a few months, inflation data released in mid-Sept was […]

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Q2 2022 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on July 11th, 2022

With inflation, interest rate, and geopolitical fears taking the stage and reversing market advances in the beginning of 2022, the second quarter extended these trends. […]

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April Market Update

By Clint Edgington
Posted on May 18th, 2022

Economic trends apparent so far in 2022 continued in April and worldwide markets tanked.  Interest rate increases, spurred by a more hawkish Fed, continued punishing […]

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Geopolitical tensions and inflation strike: Markets uniformly down 2022 Q1

By Clint Edgington
Posted on April 12th, 2022

World equity markets’ great 2021 is not continuing in 2022, while fixed income markets’ underwhelming performance last year is.  Inflationary pressures have been in the […]

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February Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on March 8th, 2022

February saw markets uniformly down.  Initially investors fretted over global Central banks tightening monetary policy, with the highest headline CPI of 7.5% annual inflation in […]

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“A Trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?” -Alexander Cairncross[1]

By Clint Edgington
Posted on January 7th, 2022

2021 Post Covid Trend Continues: Inflation, Blistering Stock Prices, Bonds Hurt As is usually the case, the headlines of a year that are memorable are […]

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