by David Wagner | Oct 3, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
Market Recap September 2025 – Life Certainly Looks Like Easy Street in the Equity Markets: It’s always easier when the markets are going up. Equities have continued to press to all-time highs, and long rates have continued lower. We find it difficult to poke too many...
by David Wagner | Oct 1, 2025 | Market Updates
If someone looked up the Webster Dictionary definition of the Dave Chappelle Show, it would go something like this: It was rare sketch comedy that managed to be both outrageously inappropriate and socially brilliant at the same time. It felt like a college philosophy...
by David Wagner | Sep 5, 2025 | Market Updates
We’re going to do a new style of the Aptus Musings today; it’s going to be a bit more educational. I had a conversation a few weeks ago with a friend and realized that I needed to know more about this topic: Stablecoins. It has been a hot topic lately for...
by David Wagner | Sep 2, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
Market Recap – August 2025: The market continued its monthly gain streak, as August had every single week during the month have a positive return. The market has been in a rising asset value environment around the world since April, with nearly every equity index at...
by David Wagner | Aug 21, 2025 | Blog, Market Updates
The big debate in the final weeks of Summer is whether the delayed bite of the Administration’s trade and tariff policy will matter more for financial markets than the offset from likely rate cuts, monetary policy and fiscal policy. Best we can tell, it’s the...