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2020 Financial Markets Update

November 2023 Market Commentary

November 16, 2023

Markets endured another disappointing month impacted by a further rise in rates. The S&P 500 briefly entered “correction” territory just […]

October 2023 Market Commentary

October 24, 2023

Maybe it is a sense of melancholy from summer drawing to a close. Perhaps it is traders returning from late-summer […]

July 2023 Market Commentary

August 17, 2023

The saying “Hope springs eternal” traces its roots back nearly 300 hundred years to “An Essay on Man: Epistle I” […]

June 2023 Market Commentary

July 13, 2023

Drive down a road on a hot summer day and you will invariably see a mirage. And no matter your […]

May 2023 Market Commentary

June 15, 2023

Déjà vu, which in French means “already seen” is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a feeling that one has […]

April 2023 Market Commentary

May 11, 2023

Markets are always faced with uncertainty, even in the best of times. Differing interpretations of uncertainty effectively creates a market. […]

March 2023 Market Commentary

April 13, 2023

In many respects, March was a tale of two halves: before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and after. […]

February 2023 Market Commentary

March 9, 2023

What a difference a month can make. January saw equity markets enjoy strong returns fueled by growing optimism that the […]

January 2023 Market Commentary

February 14, 2023

Maybe it was simply the act of turning the calendar to 2023, or that investors were tired of markets going […]

December 2022 Market Commentary

January 11, 2023

Investors hoping for a Santa Claus rally in December were no doubt disappointed with the metaphorical lump of coal that […]