by Mitch Fisher | Jul 1, 2020 | Monthly and Special Reports
“Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.” Michael Corleone The S&P 500 dropped 34% in just a few days in March. The Coronavirus created chaos in our lives and our financial systems. Then, in a dramatic reversal, stocks roared back, with the S&P...
by Mitch Fisher | May 4, 2020 | Daily Market Blog, Daily Market Notes, Monthly and Special Reports
Light at the End of the Tunnel….. When the employment report for April is released this Friday, the economic damage from the deepest of the Coronavirus shutdowns will become clear. We estimate that nonfarm payrolls will be down roughly 22 million versus March,...
by Mitch Fisher | Mar 13, 2020 | Daily Market Blog, Monthly and Special Reports
“Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep…” Buffalo Springfield It can be excruciating to watch your accounts sink so low. Ouch! Although most investors knew this financial storm was coming…we didn’t know when, how fast, and how much havoc it would wreak...
by Mitch Fisher | Jan 13, 2020 | Monthly and Special Reports
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” Pearl S. Buck With another record year of growth in the financial markets, investors should be feeling more than just a germ of happiness. After falling more than 6% in May, stocks finished off the decade in high style....
by Mitch Fisher | Nov 5, 2019 | Daily Market Blog, Daily Market Notes, Monthly and Special Reports
No Recession on the Horizon….. Since the earliest days of the current economic expansion, there have been naysayers asserting the US was on the brink of another recession. Remember all the fear about another wave of home foreclosures, or a disaster in...
by Mitch Fisher | Aug 19, 2019 | Daily Market Blog, Daily Market Notes, Monthly and Special Reports
The threat of a recession is on the minds of investors. Some traditional measures of the yield curve are inverted and, in the past, those have preceded recessions. The link between an inverted yield curve and a recession has so dominated recent financial news that...
