NEWS & COMMENTARY

In recent years, investors have grown accustomed to market downturns that have been short-lived. We’ve seen sharp declines followed by fast recoveries. We saw this in the last quarter of […]

 Ron Rough, Chief Investment Officer, reviews what happened in the markets in the first quarter of 2022. April Stock Market Update Hello, this is Ron Rough with a market […]

Though we often feel a certain nostalgia for the past, I have mixed emotions for the seventies. Besides being the decade where I spent my awkward teenage years, it was […]

In America, we woke yesterday to hear news of Russia invading Ukraine. Tensions had been building in eastern Europe for several weeks as Russia began to amass troops on their […]

Happy New Year to everyone. We hope your year has gotten off to a better start than the stock market. Through the close on Wednesday, January 26, stocks were down […]

 For investors, 2021 was a happy year. Ron Rough, Chief Investment Officer, reviews what happened in the markets in 2021 and discusses factors that might play a role in [...]

The year 2021 was a good year for stocks of all types—value stocks, growth stocks, small-cap stocks, foreign stocks. As investors looked beyond the rise of two COVID-19 variants, Delta […]

Historically December has been a strong month for the markets with the S&P 500 experiencing a gain 73% of the time since 1928. As shown in the chart below, typically, […]

Major indices reached all-time highs to start November. The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on November 8 for its eighth consecutive positive day. That is the longest streak […]