by Michael Sefscik | Sep 29, 2026 | Blog, Investment Concepts
Picture the same car lease at two different dealers: same exact car, same monthly payment, same coverage if something breaks. The only difference is that one lets you drive 2,500 more miles a year. Dealer A keeps its full fee. It’s built into your payment, and...
by Aptus PM Team | Sep 25, 2026 | Charts
Our team looks at a lot of research throughout the day. Here are a handful of charts we think are good summations of investor activity: from a Fed pushed back into hiking mode, to a market that looks calmer on the surface than it does underneath, earnings and margins...
by Brian Jacobs | Sep 25, 2026 | Blog, Investment Concepts
Plenty of bottled fruit smoothies carry as much sugar as a can of Coke, and does anybody drink a Coke at 8 am and feel good about it? The smoothie has a strawberry on the front and the word “natural” somewhere on the label, so it goes in the cart next to the eggs....
by David Wagner | Sep 21, 2026 | Blog, Market Updates
This year, Fall is arriving alongside a debt conversation that never really goes away, and rates that have climbed to levels unseen in over a decade+. Which brings us to the debt conversation. Many have called the U.S. debt situation a house of cards for decades now,...
by Aptus PM Team | Sep 18, 2026 | Charts
Our team looks at a lot of research throughout the day. Here are a handful of charts we think are good summations of investor activity, from a Fed pushed back into hiking mode, to a market that looks calmer on the surface than it does underneath, earnings and margins...
by John Luke Tyner | Sep 17, 2026 | Blog, Bonds
The 10-year Treasury yield is sitting around 5.00%, and the 30-year at ~5.37% (as of 9/16/26) — both brushing up against levels last seen in 2007. The Fed met today and delivered a 25bps hike, and if you have followed the 2yr Treasury (4.65% going into the meeting,...
