Market Updates

At the halfway point of 2021 markets continue to push upwards as the re-opening economy booms.  The S&P 500 was up +8.55% for the 2nd quarter, eclipsing the +6.17% for the 1st quarter of the year and bringing the year-to-date return to +15.25% through... Read More →

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