Aptus Q1 2023 Newsletter

Aptus Q1 2023 Newsletter

The S&P 500 Was Up This Quarter? Surely You Can’t Be Serious. I am, and Don’t Call Me Shirley.   Airplane! is a comedy  that does not conform to any known standard of parody. In fact, the movie is far from the likes of comedies today that are so hung up on...

Fleeting Bond Rally

While bonds got off to a fast start this year, February’s returns were almost the mirror image from a total return standpoint. As the chart shows, Bloomberg’s Global Aggregate Index returned -3.32% last month. With data going back to March 1990, this ranks as the...

Aptus Musings: Debt Ceiling Part Deux

I’m going to cut to the chase here – I’ve been reading a lot on the debt crisis here recently, especially after the Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook last week. This report projects the US fiscal and economic outlook...