Current Market Environment “This time is different.” As 2022 began, that sentiment seemed pervasive. With the S&P 500 trading close to all-time highs, continuing to be led by...
Current Market Environment According to ESPN major league baseball (MLB) analyst, Doug Glanville, MLB instituted the “warning track” in 1949. This came after a Brooklyn Dodgers...
Current Market Environment We find ourselves questioning the maxim, “Good things come to those who wait.” After waiting years for interest rates to rise, thereby ushering in a...
Current Market Environment The new year started as we expected: inflation continuing to rise, the Federal Reserve getting increasingly hawkish, interest rates rising, and with a...
Current Market Environment Don’t Fight The Fed 2021 began with a hopeful optimism of a soon-to-be vaccinated world, and our being able to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the...
Banks are on pace for their biggest year of M&A activity, in terms of dollar volume since the financial crisis, confirming one of our investment theses for the industry. And we...
Current Market Environment Cases of whiplash must have spiked lately. After all, in a few short months, market commentators have abruptly transitioned from: “inflation is...
Current Market Environment Transitory. Anyone following the markets during the second quarter heard the word bandied about ad nauseam, and the question of whether inflation would...
Current Market Environment The new year began with the Georgia Senate runoff which saw both seats going to Democrats, thereby giving the Dems an effective majority in the Senate....
First and foremost, we hope this writing finds you and your families healthy. It’s been a long twelve months and no one could be criticized for being happy to see the end of 2020....