Weekly Market Commentary

Market Recap for the Week ending 4.5.19 -Darren Leavitt, CFA The stock market started the second quarter with nice gains and forged new highs for 2019.  The S&P 500 gained 2.1%, the Dow increased 1.9%, the NASDAQ added 2.7%, and the Russell 2000 outperformed with...

Weekly Market Commentary

Market Recap Week ending 3.29.19 -Darren Leavitt, CFA Markets had nice gains last week as investors seemed to shrug off the most recent concerns over global growth.  The S&P 500 gained 1.2% on the week, gaining just over 13% for the first quarter.  The Dow added...

Weekly Market Commentary

Market Recap Week ending 3.22.19 -Darren Leavitt, CFA It was another extremely busy week for Wall Street.  Investors received the latest statement from the Fed Reserve Open Market Committee that appeared to be more dovish than anticipated.  Additionally, there were a...

Weekly Market Commentary

Market Recap for the week ending 3.15.19 -Darren Leavitt, CFA It was an extremely busy week for the markets.  Central bank news, corporate headlines, trade negotiations, technical variables, and a full dose of economic data were in play last week.  The market shrugged...

Weekly Market Commentary

Market Recap Week ending 3.8.19 -Darren Leavitt, CFA Economic growth concerns along with the inability of the S&P 500 to maintain a key technical level hobbled the market last week.  The market lost ground for five consecutive days.  For the week, the S&P 500...

Weekly Market Commentary

Market Recap Week ending 3.1.19 -Darren Leavitt, CFA Last week the proposed increase of trade tariffs on China was postponed while negotiations continued between the countries. Markets continued to view the negotiations as constructive although comments from US Trade...