April 18, 2025 The Energy and Real estate sector had a strong week, both up over 5%. The S&P500 Index had a positive showing last week +0.28% yet is still down over 10% YTD. The three sectors in the red this week were Communications, Technology and Consumer Discretionary. Consumer Staples and Utilities are both positive […]
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April 8, 2025 The S&P 500 has now retraced the entirety of current cycle gains above the S&P 500’s 2022 price high (chart below). As we noted in our weekly piece, the current level represents a 50% retracement of the entire bull market move from the trough in October 2022 through the peak in January
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April 7, 2025 Anyone else already tired of the word “tariff”? Tariffs have been slapped on trading partners, residual tariffs are coming back our way. If one puts on one’s bowtie and reads from the economic textbook, this is a bad setup. Tariffs are inflationary to the extent that they raise prices, but more precisely
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COMMENTARY: Bloomberg screens this week should have had background music playing UB40’s song Red, Red, Wine. The primary driver of this week’s sell-off was the start of a tariff war that the administration believes will level the import/export playing field in the future. Investors clearly don’t like uncertainty, as the S&P500 fell 9.0%, bringing every
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April 4, 2025 Tariffs are here and they brought the Bear with them. Wednesday afternoon’s pronouncements and news of reciprocal measures coming out on Thursday evening has equities taking the elevator downwards. Speed is the weapon of the bear, patience that of the bull. As we survey our various factor fund groupings this week, we
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April 2, 2025 The rotation out of US Stocks has hit its first potential pivot point at the start of April. The S&P 500 is retesting March lows after the end-of-month rally got snuffed out at the 200-day moving average last Friday. The rally came at the expense of ex-US equity performance. The chart below
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Please click the link below for our views on technical, fundamental and economic developments driving the S&P 500 Energy Sector as we start April. Energy Sector April Outlook
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