March 2024 Mid-Month Recap

The U.S. stock market is overbought in the short-term and a near-term pullback can never be ruled out, especially in mega-cap tech land.  Regarding the Fed, the late December 2023 pivot has helped, but this rally is about much more than the Fed (we suspect...

March 2024 Market Commentary

The main section in last month’s February commentary was titled “The Tech Bull Market Rolls On.”   Tech stocks continue to lead the charge and exploded to the upside after NVIDIA reported stellar results last week.  AI continues to be the driving theme in the stock...

January 2024 Mid-Month Recap

Even though last week’s CPI (consumer price index) came in hotter than expected, we would argue against interpreting results as a notable uptick in inflation. “Supercore” (which strips out a range of very volatile categories) continued to trend weaker.  We were happy...