by Kern Campbell, MBA | Apr 29, 2019 | Capital Markets Index Review, Financial Analysts, Investment Commentary, Market Trends
A Tale Of Two Markets For as bad as the market returns were during the fourth quarter of 2018, the first quarter of 2019 returns for investors has been equally impressive – this time to the upside! Here is a chart of the S&P 500 that helps illustrate the...
by Kern Campbell, MBA | Jan 7, 2019 | Capital Markets Index Review, Financial Analysts, Investment Commentary, Investment Ideas, Market Trends
Here’s What Happened in The Stock Market for 2018 2018 turned out to be a year where what should have worked, in the end, did not. The first few months of the year were wild and crazy with swings up and down. Then we had a reasonable upward move over the next 4-5...
by Kern Campbell, MBA | Oct 26, 2018 | Capital Markets Index Review, Charts, Education, Financial Analysts, Investment Commentary, Investment Ideas, Market Trends
Is This The Last Great Buying Opportunity In The Current Bull Market? In short, I believe the answer is YES! This is likely your best opportunity to “buy the dip” before the market moves meaningfully to the upside. Since 2009 I have been saying this market could and...
by Kern Campbell, MBA | Apr 10, 2018 | Capital Markets Index Review, Charts, Investment Commentary, Market Trends
Keeping Returns in Perspective As investors, we have a tendency to get too excited on the way up, and overly pessimistic when markets go down. I think the following chart may help us all remember that markets, like Olympic sprinters, cannot maintain an intense sprint...
by Kern Campbell, MBA | Feb 5, 2018 | Capital Markets Index Review, Charts, Investment Commentary, Market Trends
*Note: I wrote this article this morning prior to the markets big afternoon decline, but everything here still holds true. One day does not make a trend and I believe this is part of the process of markets returning to more normal ebbs and flows. We just didn’t...
by Kern Campbell, MBA | Sep 5, 2017 | Capital Markets Index Review, Charts, Financial Analysts, Investment Commentary, Market Trends
Market Update In spite of geopolitical tensions with North Korea, economic and market data continues to provide solid evidence that investors should remain in the bullish camp. Our facts based investment process continues to say that investors should stay the course....