Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. January has had a pretty decent start for 2025 with the market up about 2% as of January 21st. We had previously been in a downward trend but have recently broken out of that trend and appear to be marching back towards all-time highs. At least until this week when AI stocks were disrupted. As we enter into 2025 and [...]

  Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. The market just continues to march higher despite war in the Middle East, slowing consumer spending, and a really tight race between these two. For those wondering why I haven’t commented on the upcoming election, it’s because the results of the election do not matter to the long-term trajectory of the markets. There is no statistically significant difference between returns [...]

  Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. Well folks, we are finally here! We got our first set of rate cuts this month. The Federal Reserve cut their benchmark rate by 50 basis points or half a percent. The larger 50 basis point cut came as a positive surprise to the market which rallied on the news of a bit of extra monetary relief. Looking ahead, the [...]

  Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. So this month we had our first bout of volatility in a while. The early August selloff was sparked by margin calls on Japanese Yen carry trades. That’s a bunch of words that essentially mean people were over-levered, they were caught offsides, and had to sell as a result. Even though this is the same exact trade that caused the [...]