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...
by David Wagner | Nov 27, 2024 | Blog, Market Updates
Given the breadth of questions that I’ve received on President-elect Trump’s cabinet picks I thought I’d start with some commentary. In my opinion, the market is not political. It doesn’t care about political views and rhetoric, suggested...
