The melt-up as it is being more widely referred to, continues. The S&P, Dow, and Nasdaq each logged new highs adding roughly 1% each during the week ended January 19. In the just 13 trading days since the New Year began, the 3 major indexes are all up between +4.8% and +5.3%; a pace that […]

Global financial markets are continuing where 2017 left off: moving higher and with optimism. In fact, the S&P did not experience its first negative performance day of the new year until Wednesday (Jan 10) of last week. It is under that context we came across a rather timely comic depicting the near-extinction of the market […]

Happy New Year-we look forward to continuing our work on your behalf in 2018! When we look at the distribution of returns for the S&P relative to history, 2017 could be defined as a year with no left tail. Not only did the index conclude with all 12 months being positive (never happened before), but […]

As hard as it may be to believe, there are just 9 trading days remaining in 2017. Most notable is that through the first 242 trading days of this year, the worst S&P drawdown was a benign -2.8% decline. That hardly-sinister setback is the second skinniest calendar year correction ever (1995 was the narrowest). And […]