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Round 2 Goes to the Defending Heavyweight Champ

2Q 2020

Following the worst quarter for US stocks since the end of 2008, we have managed to tally the best quarter in 23 years, with the S&P 500 up 20.5% in the second quarter (including dividends). Since 1949, this was the fourth-best quarter – which followed the fifth-worst quarter. 2020 Q2 also featured impressive performance from… Read More

Round One Goes to the Virus

1Q 2020

The first quarter of 2020 was a pretty rough one. The S&P 500 ended the quarter down 20.0% (down 19.6% on a total return basis, including dividends) – the worst quarterly return since the fourth quarter of 2008. As everyone knows by now, this was all due to the coronavirus and the toll of this… Read More

Reflections on a Decade

4Q 2019

“Progress is invisible to most people because they don’t get their understanding of the world from numbers; they get it from headlines. Journalism by its very nature conceals progress, because it presents sudden events rather than gradual trends. Most things that happen suddenly are bad: a war, a shooting, an epidemic, a scandal, a financial… Read More

Of Trade Wars and Yield Curves

3Q 2019

2019’s third quarter was another wild one in terms of volatility in the markets. July gave us a promising start as US stock markets set new all-time highs early in the month. August was less favorable to the US investor. It started with escalated trade war rhetoric between President Trump and China, and then the… Read More

Trade War Fireworks

2Q 2019

All in all, the second quarter turned out to be a good one for stocks. The S&P 500 was up 4.3% on a total return basis (including dividends), but it wasn’t easy getting there. The index initially continued its first quarter run higher, eventually setting a new high on May 3rd thanks to a first… Read More

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