Market Updates

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 →

I said the same thing when the market closed today that I’ve said after every round of golf I’ve ever played: “Wow, glad that’s over!” The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both fell a little more than 7.5% today – record... Read More →

In addition to combing thru the latest news on the Covid-19 Coronavirus over the weekend (I have found this website/heatmap to be very helpful, by the way: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6), you have likely seen/read about a conflict of an entirely different construct: an oil price war... Read More →

When I sent out the market recap on Monday evening, I closed on an optimistic tone, siting the probabilistic tendency of the S&P 500 to stage a recovery after a day of significant selling.  That did not happen. Each day this week, the Dow... Read More →

News over the weekend that focused on the escalation of coronavirus cases and, perhaps more concerning, the expansion of geographies across which those cases have been sited, catalyzed a significant decline in global stock markets today. In fact, for many indices, this was the... Read More →