Market Commentary
Quarterly Market Commentary – April 2022
By Standard Behavior | 01 Apr 2022
Resilience The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 5.8% since its January 4th record high and the broader-based S&P 500...
Monthly Market Commentary – February 2022
By Standard Behavior | 01 Mar 2022
Russia/Ukraine and the Fed Knock Raise Uncertainty There are three major themes that have been uppermost in the minds of...
Monthly Market Commentary – January 2022
By Standard Behavior | 01 Feb 2022
January’s Rocky Start January was an uncertain month for investors. It didn’t take long for a more aggressive stance by...
Annual Market Commentary – 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Jan 2022
A Grand Economic Reopening, a Gilded Age for Investors The reopening of the economy, new vaccines, the pandemic, strong economic...
Monthly Market Commentary – November 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Dec 2021
A Greek Alphabet Soup In December 2020, the news media reported a new variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19....
Monthly Market Commentary – October 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Nov 2021
October Trick or Treating Yields Treat Historically, September has not been kind to investors. Using S&P 500 data from the...
Quarterly Market Commentary – October 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Oct 2021
September and Hurdles Historically, September has not been kind to investors. Using S&P 500 data over the last 50 years,...
Monthly Market Commentary – August 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Sep 2021
Dodging Covid and Global Troubles August is historically a weak month for stocks. Reviewing S&P data back to 1970, the...
Monthly Market Commentary – July 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Aug 2021
Last Year’s Stock Market Rally Extends into 2021 Last year’s stock market rally was an explosive recovery that saw the...
Quarterly Market Commentary – July 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Jul 2021
House Price Explosion The pandemic has created long-lasting distortions in the economy. Fiscal stimulus checks and generous jobless benefits have...
Monthly Market Commentary – May 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Jun 2021
A Four-Letter Word Called Inflation Most have heard the question, “Is too much of a good thing, still a good...
Monthly Market Commentary – April 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 May 2021
A Robust Economic Rebound It’s been one year since the Covid pandemic pushed the economy off a cliff. Fast forward...
Quarterly Market Commentary – April 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Apr 2021
Looking Back—One Year Later It has been one year since the World Health Organization declared the Covid outbreak a pandemic....
Monthly Market Commentary – February 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Mar 2021
Too Much of a Good Thing? Treasury Yields Rise The Federal Reserve is in no mood to raise interest rates....
Monthly Market Commentary – January 2021
By Standard Behavior | 01 Feb 2021
Drama on Wall Street The major market indexes have had a very strong run since bottoming last March. We saw...
Annual Market Commentary – 2020
By Standard Behavior | 01 Jan 2021
Never Bet Against America 2020 tested America like no other year. It was as if the perfect storm made landfall...
Monthly Market Commentary – November 2020
By Standard Behavior | 01 Dec 2020
An Election and Vaccines A bitter election has ended. Some are jubilant, some are bitterly disappointed. Both candidates had avid...
Monthly Market Commentary – April 2022
By Standard Behavior | 01 May 2022
Interest Rates, Interest Rates, and Interest Rates Talk of a steep series of rate hikes, persistently high inflation, recent recession...