Q2 2025 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on July 7th, 2025

The quarter began with equity markets continuing and deepening the previous quarter’s slump to a free fall due to Trump announcing broad tariffs and the […]

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Q1 2025 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on April 7th, 2025

Relatively subdued inflationary pressures and strong economic performance across the economy started the quarter with the bull market intact, hitting all-time highs in February.  The […]

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Fourth Quarter 2024 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on January 15th, 2025

The U.S. equity market trends that were persistent throughout 2024 continued in the 4th Quarter; and U.S. equity markets had their second consecutive year of […]

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Q3 2024 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on October 8th, 2024

Equity and fixed income markets both experienced broad gains this quarter, with the S&P adding nearly 6% to its 22% year-to-date gain and the U.S. […]

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Q2 2024 Market Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on July 15th, 2024

The quarter started with investor concerns of continued inflation subduing expectations of multiple rate cuts due to higher inflation readings and the Fed’s April release […]

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The Year in Review

By Clint Edgington
Posted on January 11th, 2024

The echoes of central banks’ historic monetary stimulus to counter the Covid-19 virus, the resulting inflation, and the  unwinding of that monetary stimulus to contain […]

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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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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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