The Market in 2017 In what has been an unprecedented market since the end of the great recession in 2009, we had another positive quarter, with U.S. and international markets gaining just over 5%. Even bonds eked out a meager 0.8% return, despite slowly rising interest rates. We all love a rising stock market, and…
Brexit What is this Brexit that we have heard a lot about during the last couple of weeks? Britain voted on June 23 to EXIT the European Union. The immediate result was that stock markets immediately sold off and the US market lost 5.6% in 2 days. To put this in perspective, the US stock…
August 24 2015 Recent Stock Market Decline Over the last week, the markets have taken a beating. The overall US stock market has declined 9.9% since last Monday[1], which is in line with the overall international market which has gone down 9.7%[2]. The overall bond market held steady by going up 0.4%[3]. Let…