by Ross Bowler | Jan 13, 2023 | Market Commentary
The World Repriced Investors have removed their rose-colored glasses and now perceive the world through a glass, darkly. The overarching optimism that opened 2022 is all but gone. In 2022, the S&P 500 delivered a negative 18.1% total return, its worst annual...
by Ross Bowler | Dec 15, 2022 | Market Commentary
Is inflation dead? This morning the Labor Department reported November’s month-over-month core inflation of just 0.1%, far below the forecast rate of 0.4% and, annualized, below the Fed’s 2.0% target rate. The Fed is expected to hike rates by an additional 50 basis...
by Ross Bowler | Nov 17, 2022 | Market Commentary
Positioning for a return to normal Last Thursday, October’s CPI stormed in at 7.7% which would normally be cause for panic, but because the figure was lower than September’s, stocks soared and interest rates fell. On Tuesday PPI came in lower than estimates,...
by Ross Bowler | Oct 24, 2022 | Market Commentary
When Bad Markets Happen to Good Stocks Sometimes, when the world seems to have stopped making sense, it helps to get anecdotal. For example, late last summer we learned that famed short-seller, Jim Chanos, was running a bearish campaign on data centers, claiming that...
by Ross Bowler | Sep 19, 2022 | Market Commentary
Groundhog Day Headwinds Déjà vu It seems that in each and every one of the last five months, I’ve performed the same mantra. High inflation. Rising interest rates. Markets sell off. We are here in September and I’m repeating myself. 8.1% YOY inflation. Interest rates...
by Ross Bowler | Aug 11, 2022 | Market Commentary
The Bipolar Markets On July 28, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased by 1.6 percent. By some definitions,...
