We had quite the turnout for our summer investment seminar Tuesday evening. Thanks to everyone who made it a special evening. It’s always so cool to see folks reconnect if it has been awhile, or watch others making new friends with each other and discovering they have a common interest or a shared friend. For …
President Biden has rolled out two major “infrastructure” proposals in the last few weeks. It’s hard to keep track of all the stimulus programs, let alone their names, so we’ll catch you up. The American Jobs Plan would raise funds for physical infrastructure (along with some non-physical “infrastructure”), for which the President hopes to garner …
Investing vs. Gambling Recently – not for the first time – there has been a lot of speculative activity in the market. Maybe it is pent-up frustration from people being cooped up for months at home, hiding from the virus, with not enough excitement. We have seen the stocks of companies barely formed, with little …
Greetings to you from the Fort on this drizzly January day. While winter hasn’t exactly been tropical here, it hasn’t been all that wintery either. The group that has the firmest ground to complain about this winter is certainly the snow lovers…even the winter “storm” last night brought ice instead of snow. Perhaps the winter …
Tuning Out and Focusing In American adults spend over 12 hours per day listening to, watching, reading, or generally interacting with media according to the 2020 Nielsen Total Audience Report. Of that, the average time spent consuming news is approximately 70 minutes per day. Another way of thinking about this is over a 50-year period, …
The Blue Sky Market It’s fall newsletter time! Three months have elapsed since you read your last Monarch newsletter, and we understand your excitement. It’s like how we feel about corporate earnings reports, which come out every three months. Especially this year, we find valuable nuggets of information in these reports. What was the cadence …
A curious phenomenon has overtaken the market in recent weeks…stock splits are hot again! In case you’ve been on a desert island or (horrors) a cruise ship in August, we shall fill you in. Apple kicked off the fun by announcing a 4-for-1 split. This means that shareholders received 4 shares of stock for every …
After an abysmal first quarter, stocks recovered so quickly that the 2nd quarter was one of the best quarters in history. Hopefully one lesson learned is the value of being in the market. The graph below, of the S&P 500, shows why we want to be long-term investors. There have been numerous 10-20% corrections in …
Keep Calm and Carry On The coronavirus epidemic has changed our world in a hurry. A few weeks ago the stock market was touching record highs, and now stocks are plunging, schools and restaurants closing, events canceled, and people are afraid to hug their friends. Government has sprung into action by (1) spending $2.2 trillion …
Likely you have heard that the governor issued a “stay at home” declaration, starting at midnight last night. Businesses should close or work from home through April 7, unless they are deemed essential services, as defined by the Department of Homeland Security. As it turns out, our industry made the list of essential services, so …
