Third Quarter 2019: Inversion U.S. stocks eked out a gain in the third quarter of 2019 despite the yield curve inverting for the first time in more than a decade and continuing trade war tensions with China. After the almost 2% rise in the S&P 500 Index during the quarter, the index is up more … Continue reading Third Quarter 2019 Market Snapshot
Sellwood’s August 2019 Market Snapshot is available for download.
Sellwood’s July 2019 Market Snapshot is available for download.
Second Quarter 2019: The Roaring Nineteens U.S. stocks are off to their best start to a year since 1997, as the S&P 500 rose 4.3% in the second quarter and 18.5% in the first half of 2019. The rally followed a disappointing fourth quarter of 2018, in which investors fretted about trade wars, slowing global … Continue reading Second Quarter 2019 Market Snapshot
This past March marked the 10-year anniversary of the market bottom that concluded the 2008/2009 Global Financial Crisis. The decade ending March 31, 2019 was a very interesting one for market observers and practitioners. We offer ten market observations from that decade, and, informed by history, ten predictions about what the next ten years may … Continue reading Ten Years, Ten Observations, and Ten Predictions