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Continued Atrocities in Ukraine

March 13, 2022

Certainly, the atrocities in Ukraine have our utmost attention. It makes it easy to understand why all three major US stock market indices lost ground again last week (i.e., DJIA: -2.00%, S&P 500: -2.88%, Nasdaq: -3.54%), leaving the year-to-date results -9.34%, -11.79% and -17.90% respectively.

Oil, Inflation and Interest Rates

February 27, 2022

Thursday morning, per normal, the markets reacted violently to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but, surprisingly, rebounded to actually post slight gains in two of the three major US stock market indices for the shortened trading week (DJIA -0.1%, S&P 500 +0.8%, Nasdaq +1.1%).