Over the past month I’ve started seeing news about how it’s been quite a while since the market has had a 5% pullback. And while technically true, the overall index movement has covered up a lot of volatility. Many areas within the market have had drawdowns of 5% or more this year. Maybe that overdue market pullback has already happened.
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2020 Q3 Market Review
In a nutshell
- Stock markets continued to recover. Large caps positive for the year.
- Bond growth slows
- Housing in its own bull market
3 interesting things I saw this week – August 22, 2020
Small business recovery grants now available. Why so many people are unhappy in retirement. The stock market just had it’s best 100 day rally ever. No one is throwing a Zoom party.
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2020 First Half Market Review
In a nutshell
- The quickest bear market decline in history, followed by a 2nd quarter rally not seen since the 1990’s
- Gold and U.S. Treasury bonds best performers so far this year
- Inflation coming?