by Marketing | 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 JD Gardner | Dec 23, 2024 | Blog, Market Updates
Thanksgiving is my wife’s favorite holiday, and because of that, we make the long trek to Cincinnati, Ohio every November. There are a number of traditions, but they all surround the main attraction – her Grandmother’s house, aka “106”. Her grandparents have been gone...
by Aptus PM Team | 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...
by David Wagner | Nov 7, 2024 | Blog, Market Updates
It’s over. But, in a way…it has only just begun. Election Superlatives: 9 out of the past 10 elections, the results have yielded a situation where power flipped parties. This has been the highest level of political regime volatility since the Civil War....
by David Wagner | Nov 1, 2024 | Blog, Market Updates
Both the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 marked their last major correction low roughly one year ago (10/27/2023) with each now in the top decile of their historical 12-month price momentum. Yet, small cap stocks have underperformed their larger cap brethren during this...