by RG Admin | May 10, 2019 | Market Thoughts
On Sunday, President Trump sent an afternoon tweet that the current 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods will rise 25% on this Friday; he also threatened to place another 25% on an additional $325 billion of Chinese goods “shortly”. As one would expect,...
by RG Admin | Mar 22, 2019 | Market Thoughts
On Wednesday the Federal Reserve announced that they would not be adjusting the federal funds rate following their latest meeting. While the market initially responded to the announcement with a rally due to the prospect of stable rates being constructive for stocks,...
by RG Admin | Jan 30, 2019 | Market Thoughts
January Recap and Portfolio Changes At the time of our last newsletter we were in the midst of a pronounced selloff in the market. In that newsletter we covered some of the forces that were driving the sellers and pushing the buyers away. We have seen some of these...
by RG Admin | Dec 17, 2018 | Market Thoughts, Portfolio Update
During the course of weekend reading, we ran across an interesting quote regarding the value of forecasting by the financial journalist Jane Bryant Quinn that stated, “give them a date or give them a number but don’t give them both.” Following another roller-coaster...
by RG Admin | Dec 5, 2018 | Market Thoughts
Last week we saw significant positive developments across a broad range of sectors in global equity markets. The S&P 500 saw a weekly return of 4.91% with health care, consumer discretionary, and information technology leading the way. Investors seemed to have...
by RG Admin | Nov 15, 2018 | Market Thoughts
Now What? The last few weeks have been tumultuous to say the least. October closed one of the worst months in recent memory, followed by a strong rally following the elections, followed by renewed selling bringing the market averages to within shouting distance to...
by RG Admin | Oct 30, 2018 | Market Thoughts
The significant changes in the equity markets this month have provided an opportunity to re-allocate our RG TAAP portfolios. During the last rebalance in July, we changed some of the individual sector allocations in order to reduce the overall portfolio risk and...
by RG Admin | Oct 23, 2018 | Market Thoughts
Last week the markets saw more of the same level of volatility that has been the hallmark of this drawdown. The recent market selloff has been jarring to investors not only because of the nominal drop in their YTD returns, but because it seemingly materialized out of...
by RG Admin | Oct 10, 2018 | Market Thoughts
Top-Heavy Trade Tumble: What’s Happening Under the Hood The combination of increased global trade tensions and China and rising interest rates continue to weigh on the market, and as of this writing, the S&P is on its way to having the worst week in performance...
by RG Admin | Aug 29, 2018 | Market Thoughts
Last week was marked by good and bad news. The good news for equities was that the market continued to move higher and on August 23rd, became the longest bull market in history. As if on cue, many headline writers used this event to publish “the end is near”...
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