by David Wagner | Feb 5, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
Market Recap – January 2025: It was a very interesting month, as the market navigated a slew of headlines that, at first glance, seemed to be potential negative game changers for the market. 1) Threat of tariffs, and 2) Ramifications of DeepSeek. Yet, the market...
by David Wagner | Jan 31, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
I’ve fielded a lot of questions about DeepSeek and its potential ramifications on the stock market – I’ll be the first to say that I am not a pro in the technical jargon about Artificial General Intelligence (“AGI”), but I do think that...
by David Wagner | Jan 2, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
Market Recap – December 2024: The rally in stocks in 2023 was driven, mostly, by hope of market friendly events: The end of rate hikes and start of rate cuts, the economy slowing to a soft, not hard, landing, AI profit explosions and positive geopolitical resolutions....
by David Wagner | Dec 18, 2024 | Market Updates
Aptus Capital Market Outlook: Stocks for the Long Haul? Surely You Can’t Be Serious. I Am, and Don’t Call Me Shirley The movie Airplane! is sophomoric, obvious, predictable, corny, and quite often very funny. And the reason it’s funny is simply because...
by David Wagner | Dec 2, 2024 | Blog, Market Updates
Market Recap – November 2024: The market boasted its best month of the year, as market bulls believe that President-elect Donald Trump is the nominal GDP growth candidate. In a way, the market took the exact playbook from Trump 1.0 in November 2016 and transcribed it...