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April Market Update   With its 2.8% drop on Friday, the S&P500 (500 largest companies in America) is now down 10.4% for the year. The markets responded to news Federal Bank Chairman Jerome Powell is considering additional interest rate increases of up to...

March Market Update   The yellow shape represents a to scale size of Russia to the global economy. Ukraine is a fraction of Russia’s economy.   U.S. stocks are stable today following the Federal banks long-anticipated move to hike interest rates for the...

Russia invasion of Ukraine The long-awaited invasion of Ukraine officially started yesterday.   President Putin is determined to overtake Ukraine, so he has access to their Oil reserves and Black Sea shipping channels.  In anticipation of this, and other economic...

We experienced additional market volatility this week, in anticipation of the Federal Bank’s announcement on interest rates. For several days the market declined +3%, followed by an end of day rally to bring markets back to even. The DOW (30 biggest companies in...

Our S&P500 stock market hit an all-time high today with the Dow Jones being close behind. This despite the market’s obsession the past 2 weeks with Omicron-COVID. There are signs our economy could be equally strong in 2022. Current concerns with non-COVID issues...

The markets experienced additional volatility, as it has periodically over the past 10 days as the world begins to understand the Omicron virus which is emerging from south Africa. The markets are concerned the new variant could produce another round of social...

“Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.” Colin Powell The most closely watched economic indicator today is inflation.  The federal bank has made it a top priority to manage inflation during the next year.  Inflation is like the...