by David Dirks | Jan 21, 2022 | Market Commentary
Q4 Market Commentary – January 7, 2022 US stock markets had another strong year in 2021 as the economy and corporate profits continued to rebound from the Covid pandemic. US GDP is estimated to have grown over 5% year over year in 2021, and growth in corporate...
by David Dirks | Oct 12, 2021 | Market Commentary
Q3 Market Commentary – October 5, 2021 The third quarter ended on a weak note, with the S&P 500 sliding almost 5% in September. Although 5% is a relatively small decline, it feels larger because it’s the biggest monthly decline we’ve seen since the sharp...
by David Dirks | Jul 15, 2021 | Market Commentary
Q2 Market Commentary – July 8, 2021 U.S. home prices have gone through the roof (pun intended). Every week we are hearing of more clients who have either sold their houses within days for prices they hadn’t dared to imagine previously, or who had to pay hundreds...
by David Dirks | Apr 27, 2021 | Market Commentary
Q1 Market Commentary – April 26, 2021 The pandemic has sparked many changes that will be long-lasting. It seems likely that we will Zoom more than we conference call from now on, we will continue to get more stuff delivered, and hopefully we’ll continue to...
by David Dirks | Jan 20, 2021 | Market Commentary
Q4 Market Commentary – January 9, 2021 If a fortune teller had predicted on New Year’s Day 2020 that in the coming year we would have the worst global pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918, that the economy would fall sharply, and that unemployment would reach...
by David Dirks | Oct 15, 2020 | Market Commentary
Q3 2020 Market Commentary – Oct 12, 2020 In many ways, this recession and the recovery to date has been the most uneven one ever recorded. Housing data, corporate profits, unemployment figures, and stock market returns mask the fact that while many sectors of...
