There are five discourses in the Gospel of Matthew:
We're going to be focusing just on the first one: The Sermon on the
We survived the first couple of days of 2025 along with the first test of our newly elected government – the re-election of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. This may seem inconsequential to some, but on Wall Street everyone was holding their breath to see whether or not we'd
In 2023, stocks enjoyed strong gains, but all that did was make-up for the 2022 losses. In 2024, stocks posted another impressive year of gains, while bonds again struggled. This has left many people believing they should increase their stock allocation and reduce their bond exposures.
We're at that point of the year between Christmas and New Year where it's hard to remember what day of the week it is. At SEM where we have advisors across the country it will be a heavy dose of "out of office" messages when we try to contact them
Last week on an advisor call I was recapping my post-election blogs as I discussed: the euphoric post election rally, not letting political opinions influence our investment decisions, valuations and the chances of yet another 20%+ rally in 2025, what tariffs really are and the likely impact on the economy
