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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Mega Tough to Play Microsoft
by Steve Haberstroh, Partner
If you find yourself buying stocks because your friends have made money in them or you want to sell a good business which stock has languished, take a look at Microsoft’s two-faced, two-decade run.
Read on: Mega Tough to Play Microsoft
Topic: The Market
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
2020 Semi-Annual Review: A Tale of Two Quarters
by The CastleKeep Team
We end the analytic portion of our review by reminding you that it pays to hold on. So, thank you for doing just that, especially during the most volatile and perhaps scariest six months some of us can remember.
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Topic: The Market
Thursday, June 11, 2020
In Recession
by Steve Haberstroh, Partner
We’re in a recession. So do we buy or sell now, or what?
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Topic: The Market
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
The Longest Quarter
by The CastleKeep Team
We started our 2019 Annual Review letter with “Everything Worked.” The opposite was true in the first quarter of 2020. Nothing worked. It was very ugly and it happened so fast.
Read on: The Longest Quarter
Topic: The Market
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Three Million Jobs Lost
by Steve Haberstroh, Partner
As I type this, the S&P 500 Index is up 3% to 4%. More than three million people lost their job last week! How on earth is this possible?
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Topic: The Market
Monday, March 16, 2020
The Most Common Question
by Steve Haberstroh, Partner
The S&P 500 Index dropped 11.98% on Monday, March 16. In a perfect world, we would have seen this coming, understood the extent of it, knew how long the selling would last, and perfectly timed our re-entry into the markets. But last I checked, as evidenced by the virus’ outbreak, we don’t live in a perfect world.
Read on: The Most Common Question
Topic: The Market
Thursday, March 12, 2020
10% from the Bottom
by Steve Haberstroh, Partner
You have no idea when the market will bottom. I have no idea when the market will bottom. Why? Because none of us perfectly called the top of the market so why would we expect to be able to call the bottom? Some of our clients have been putting cash to work in this environment. A common question has been, “When is the right time to invest?”
Read on: 10% from the Bottom
Topic: The Market
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Indiscriminate Selling
by Steve Haberstroh, Partner
Last week was ugly. The S&P 500 Index declined 12.76% from its highs literally seven trading days ago. Other than cash, gold, a few biotech companies, and video conferencing companies, there was virtually nowhere to hide. We would argue the selling was indiscriminate. Globally, investors were in total “risk off” mode.
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Topic: The Market
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Sleep Regression and the Stock Market
by Steve Haberstroh, Partner
Humans suffer from recency bias. We take the most recent information and extrapolate it into the future. Nowhere is recency bias more apparent than in the stock market.
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Topic: The Market
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
2019 Market Review
by The CastleKeep Team
Everything worked in 2019, despite trade wars, yield curve inversions, recession fears, tensions in the Middle East, House impeachment of the President, WeWork pulling their IPO ... So what is going on?
Read on: 2019 Market Review
Topic: The Market
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