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Marketwatch July 2023
For the month of June and year-to-date, the NASDAQ finished positive 5.24% for the month and sits +32.74% year-to-date. The S&P 500 was positive 5.43% for the month and 16.38% year-to-date while the Dow gained 4.07% for the month and is positive 3.84%...
Marketwatch June 2023
In the words of William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing. With all the discussion of debt ceiling, U.S. default, and economic doom the markets were noisy but didn’t do much in May. For May, the NASDAQ finished positive 7.88% and sits positive year-to-date 30.89%....
Marketwatch May 2023
For April, the NASDAQ finished positive 0.37% and sits positive year-to-date 16.92%. The S&P 500 was positive 1.39% is positive year-to-date 8.91% while the Dow gained 1.84% and is up 3.24% year-to-date. The Federal Reserve reported in April that the M2 measure of...
Marketwatch April 2023
Nothing about the first quarter’s performance was linear. The broad-based S&P 500 seesawed throughout the quarter, ending January on a high note before tumbling in February, rising again in March, 3.51%, and ultimately ending the quarter up about 7%. The...
Marketwatch March 2023
For February, the NASDAQ finished down 3.05% and sits positive year-to-date 10.29%. The S&P 500 was negative 2.61% but remains positive year-to-date 3.40% while the Dow lost 4.44 in February and is down 2.91% year-to-date . Using M2 growth, alone, and Milton...
Marketwatch February 2023
2023 February 1: Williams Steinert Mask knows that as we enter the year 2023, we are dealing with inflation and its impacts on central banks that were behind the curve and forced to firmly react on growth which put recession in question and put pressure on risk assets...
Marketwatch January 2023
Goodbye 2022 – As we entered the year 2022, we dealt with old and new exogenous shocks, a pandemic becoming and endemic, and a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. But the year quickly became about inflation and its impacts on central banks that were behind the curve...
Marketwatch December 2022
Are we now entering the next bull market? The Nasdaq gained 11.48% over the past month, bringing its YTD loss to (26.3%). The S&P 500 gained 10% bringing its YTD return to (14.01%) and the Dow gained 7.97% bringing its YTD returns to (4.93%). Last month we wrote,...
Marketwatch November 2022
After the brutal September, the markets recovered some of the year-to-date (YTD) losses. The Nasdaq gained 4% over the past month, bringing its YTD loss to (30.1%). The S&P 500 gained 7.99% bringing its YTD return to (18.76%) and the Dow gained 13.95% bringing its...
Marketwatch October 2022
September was brutal closing the month with a 9% decline in and slightly greater than 5% for the third quarter. The Nasdaq lost about 10.5% over the past month, bringing its quarterly loss to roughly 4%. Both indices had the worst September since 2008. September is...