Reflections on the Downturn
Let’s imagine for a moment that on your daily walk to work, your normal route takes you past a pawn shop that is known to display expensive jewelry. Over the past couple of days, you’ve noticed that the jewelry on display has been marked down—for reasons that you...
2021 Fourth Quarter in Review
THE QUARTER IN BRIEF The stock market kicked off the fourth quarter with a powerful rally in October and added to those gains into November until investors were blindsided by news of the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant and testimony by...
Powell News Kicks Off Volatile Season?
Provided by LongView Wealth Management The holiday season is often a quiet, positive time for the financial markets. The phrase “Santa Claus Rally” was coined in the early 1970s to reflect the stock market’s upward bias during the November-January stretch.1 But...
End-of-the-Year Money Moves
End-of-the-Year Money MovesHere are some things you might consider before saying goodbye to 2021. Presented by LongView Wealth Management What has changed for you in 2021? For some, 2021 has been a year of complicated changes. Did you start a new job or leave a job...
Wedding To-Do List
By: Sam Wishneff, CFP® Last year I made the most important decision of my life when I asked my best friend, Lauren, to marry me. After she (happily for me) said “Yes,” we realized we had some decisions to make. While we had been dating for...
2021 Third Quarter in Review
Presented by LongView Wealth Management Stocks raced higher through the first two months of the third quarter, overcoming rising Delta variant infections, a slowing economic expansion, and growing inflation worries. This market growth was...
Are Your Taxes Going to Change?
Provided by LongView Wealth Management Most likely, you’ve heard what’s brewing in Washington, D.C., called by one of these names. The Build Back Better Act. Or the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. Or the Jobs and Economic Recovery Plan for Working Families.1...
The Wall of Worry
Provided by LongView Wealth Management Have you ever heard the Wall Street expression, "markets climb a wall of worry?" It's the idea that financial markets are constantly on edge. Traders fret about how long a market rally can continue before it runs into trouble....
The Code of the West
By: Wesley Bigler, CFP® Having grown up in western Wyoming, I was surrounded by cowboys, my favorite of all time being my dad, Ken Bigler. He grew up in the very small coal mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming, and, from a young age, worked on several different local...
2021 Second Quarter Investment Market Report
The U.S. investment markets continued to defy gravity in the second quarter of the year, closing out the month of June—and the first half of 2021—at new record highs. This is the fifth consecutive quarter where the U.S. markets posted gains. Everywhere you looked in a...