by Plum Street Advisors | 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 Plum Street Advisors | 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 Plum Street Advisors | 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...
by Plum Street Advisors | Jul 10, 2020 | Market Commentary
Q2 2020 Market Commentary – July 8, 2020 Early on in this health crisis there was an influential paper called “The Hammer and the Dance” by Tomas Pueyo in which he called the initial period of lockdown to flatten the curve “the hammer” and the subsequent period...
by Plum Street Advisors | Apr 10, 2020 | Market Commentary
Q1 2020 Market Commentary – April 10, 2020 Looking back at our last quarterly report feels like reading a report from many years ago. There was no hint of COVID-19, and we had just finished a year in which the US stock market rose by 31% (as measured by the...
by Plum Street Advisors | Jan 8, 2020 | Market Commentary
Plum Street AdvisorsQ4 2019 Market Commentary – January 8, 2020 Despite several headwinds, the global markets were buoyant in 2019. US-China tariffs increased throughout the year, domestic corporate earnings leveled off, global growth is slowing, and Brexit...
