Presumably due to the stock market’s strong performance during these bizarre times, people have increasingly been asking me when ‘we’ are going to have a correction. After all, the market can’t just keep going up forever,…
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Written By: Mac Frasier Director of Planning, Advisory Services As shocking as this maybe I would not consider myself to be someone who is up to date with the latest happenings in pop culture. However,…
This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released “The Employment Situation – July 2021.” I won’t mince words, it was a good report, and better than many were expecting after the somewhat disappointing ADP Employment…
On this week’s Trading Perspectives podcast, Sam Clement and I discussed the recent upsurge in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta Variant. Would this lead to another shutdown of local economies and schools? Usher in new…
The Tokyo Olympics have finally gotten underway. Since the Japanese authorities have banned spectators, these games will probably be pretty boring to watch on the television. You don’t realize how much a raucous, engaged crowd can…
After the stellar ‘run’ the stock market has had over the last couple of years, albeit with a few hiccups along the way, a lot of investors are wondering: “is now a good time to buy?”…
Oakworth Capital Bank’s Investment Committee predicted the 2nd Quarter of 2021 would expand on the 1st Quarter’s strong growth and market returns. Frankly, given the tailwinds in the US economy, this was an easy prediction which…
Unless you really follow the markets, and I mean really follow them, you might have missed the relatively sharp drop in longer-term interest rates over the last couple of months, especially for US Treasury securities. This…
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, adopted the Declaration of Independence. This document explained why the 13 American colonies were struggling against the British Crown, and why they considered themselves no…
This past week, I made several economic presentations. During the Q&A period after one of them, a person asked if I remembered a prediction I made at a presentation on the same day the first case…