Market Updates

Click below to listen to Kavar Capital Partners discuss 2020 market performance, attribution and perspective, stimulus/legislative implications on the markets/economy, Covid updates – vaccines/transmission/etc. and planning thoughts – items to consider in the new year.  Market Update Call 3.3.2021

This week marks one-year since stocks hit their pre-COVID highs.  In the twelve months since those highs, investors experienced a monumental period for the markets that ran the gamut from a crash with the peak of volatility to “face-ripping” rallies to such downright odd... Read More →

Click below to listen to Kavar Capital Partners discuss the Fiscal/Monetary Response to COVID 19, YTD Asset Class Review & Identification of Opportunities and a Virus Update – stats on testing, hospitalization, fatalities, transmission rates, vaccine/therapeutics. Market Update Call 7.30.20

Are the markets too positive for the situation? After crashing -35.4% from its intraday all-time high to the intraday crash low on March 23rd, the S&P 500 has ripped back +46.3% from that level to the close on June 9th, nearly retracing all the... Read More →

Click below to listen to Doug Ciocca, Tom Boling and John Nagle discuss the Fiscal & Monetary response to the COVID 19 outbreak, a review of 1st Quarter 2020, data points we are tracking related to COVID 19 and a quick summary of the... Read More →

It has been a very wild 4 days in the financial markets!  If you have a thing for understatements, then that one must have made your night! The Dow Jones gyrations persisted into their 5th week, posting these dizzying daily results: Source: Morningstar Direct... Read More →

Click below to listen to Doug Ciocca, Tom Boling and John Nagle discuss the recent market impact of COVID-19. Market Call 3.17.20

While Tuesday was a day of reprieve, Wednesday faced a resumption of selling on Wall Street. Yesterday saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average climb 1,167.14 points, only to roll over and drop by 1,464 points today. This session’s selling was significant in that it... Read More →