Inflation, recession, and bears – OH MY! 🐻 What does all this mean? 🤦♀ I’m sure you’ve heard these buzz words along with others in the news lately. Listen to our thoughts on these topics and more in this week’s market update.
Weekly Market Update: a comparison of past recessionary bear markets to today
Welcome to the weekly market update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this week. Typically, I’m doing this weekly market update via video. But this week, I’ve caught COVID and have trouble getting out 3 sentences without my voice cracking. I am in good health and rapidly improving so no worries there. But in the meantime, you’ll just have to read rather than watch the Weekly Market Update. The S&P 500 had a reasonable 6.2% rally off [...]
Weekly Market Update: has P/E compression stopped?
Stagflation
this year I set out the case for why the American consumer is seeing inflation at the highest levels since the 80’s (see article titled “Kindling for the Inflation Fire”). Fast forward a few months later, and we’re still in a high inflationary environment. But, rather than continue to spend time discussing the cause of inflation or ways the Fed could fight it, I figured it would be worth our time discussing issues we can actually control. So, here is a definitive list of assets and how they behave under [...]
Weekly Market Update: market trends over the last 14 years.
Welcome to the weekly market update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this week. https://youtu.be/atXAKGNC4WU We had a pretty good week in the market. After the 4% sell off last week, the market exhausted investor selling, recovering most of the 4% loss. Currently, the market is trading in a sideways yet volatile trading pattern. In the news this week, it appears that we will finish the week with the first weekly gain since the month of [...]
Welcome to the weekly market update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this week. https://youtu.be/K_M_I_vzqsw This was a particularly nasty week that culminated in a 4% sell-off on Tuesday May 17th. As of this morning, this bear market that began in January is down 18.5% for the S&P. In the news this week, the market is trading like a recession is imminent with indiscriminate selling that has now spread beyond the high volatility tech space. [...]
Welcome to the weekly market update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this week. https://youtu.be/0sA1HGI21IE Volatility continues to grip the market as concerns about interest rates, inflation, and commodity pricing are high. Currently, the S&P 500 is down 17.8% from all-time highs and we are currently in the midst of a 30 day selling trend beginning at the end of March. In the news this week, Elon Musk elected to put is Twitter acquisition on hold [...]