Aptus Monthly Note

Aptus Monthly Note

2025 January 2025: Looking to 2025 2024 December 2024: Giving Thanks November 2024: Portfolio Reminder, Election 2024   October 2024: Are You Appropriately Positioned?   September 2024: How Do You Define Safe?   August 2024: Custom vs. Production July...
Aptus Q4 2024 Newsletter

Aptus Q4 2024 Newsletter

Bears Sound Smart; Bulls Continue to Make Money   It was Déjà vu for the markets in 2024, as the S&P 500 returned 25.0%, officially entering into the third year of the current bull market rally. In fact, this was the first time since 1998 and 1999 that the...

Rearview to Windshield, January 2025

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....

The Market in Pictures, December 20

Our team looks at a lot of research throughout each day. A few charts that caught our eye this week, and the way they fit the unfolding puzzle of evidence:   Joseph: The FOMC confirmed what the market had started to price in, that rates wouldn’t be cut as quickly as...