The bad, the ugly and the opportunity By Marc DeCuffa, APMA® The year of 2022 has been another wild one for the Markets. While the previous three years had been marked with the fear and uncertainty of COVID-19 they were overall fantastic years for stocks. All major indexes were continuously hitting all-time highs, pushing valuations […]
With everything in the world moving so quickly, we want to remind everyone to take a moment to ensure that we are being the best version of ourselves at all times. Proxy is implementing monthly book recommendations to help motivate our clients and advisors to put their best foot forward in everything they do. The […]
There are a number of factors that drive the markets that most investors pay attention to. Things like earnings, economic growth, interest rates, inflation, market trends and valuations. All these things matter in terms of setting prices. But they are not the be-all, end-all. You can’t simply take fundamental data as gospel for how the markets […]
The stock market is the only place where anyone can invest in human ingenuity. It is a bet on the future being better than today. Stocks can be thought of as a way to ride the coattails of intelligent people and businesses as they continue to innovate and grow. Short of owning your own business, […]
We’ve never seen anything like this GameStop story. It’s taken on a life of its own and when this many people are paying attention to something there is bound to be misinformation and misunderstandings. So we wanted to look at what we feel are some of the biggest overreactions to this story: This has nothing […]
These are the two scenarios you’re going to hear about in the financial media in the coming days and weeks now that the Democrats have control of the White House, House and Senate:Scenario #1. The democrats are going to crash the markets with higher taxes. Buckle up. Scenario #2. The democrats are going to crank up the […]
This is the craziest market we’ve ever seen. And we don’t say that to be cute or funny. As experienced financial professionals – we mean it. The pandemic somehow turned a bunch of people into day traders. At first, they were buying beaten-down airline and cruise stocks. Now they’ve moved on to buying shares of […]
Some ideas are fleeting and go in one AirPod and out the other. Others just seem to stick for some reason and you’re constantly coming back to them over and over. Paul Graham wrote such an idea in 2014 about how to be an expert in a changing world and it’s stuck with me ever since: If […]
Coronavirus is sweeping the globe. With 2,500 confirmed deaths and over 80,000 reported cases across 34 countries (as of this writing), this illness has caused an international panic and market sell off. Because I am not an epidemiologist, I won’t opine on whether this level of panic is warranted. Nevertheless, what I can do is discuss how […]
After falling more than 4% on Friday the 20th and nearly 3% on Monday the 23rd, the S&P 500 closed at a drawdown of almost 34% from all-time highs. Things were looking bleak for the market but then a funny thing happened — it finally started going up…in a hurry. A 9.4% gain on Tuesday […]
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