Weatherstone Capital Management April 2022 Market Outlook

The Coronavirus has taken center stage in the news and in the markets. While it has been on our radar for a bit of time now, the latest reports out of Italy and South Korea have escalated levels of concern, and there has been a corresponding reaction in the financial markets. In the past two…

It has been 10 weeks since China reported the outbreak of the Coronavirus. We have experienced significant volatility in the financial markets, and it is still uncertain as to the short-term and long-term impacts to the US economy. The financial markets were already struggling with the Coronavirus uncertainty, and today, we were hit with the…

After a 12-year bull market (the longest in history), the U.S. equity market has entered a bear market losing 30% from peak to trough. As we’ve discussed in the past, the markets hate uncertainty, and this is exactly why the markets are reacting so dramatically to the COVID-19 Coronavirus. We will discuss some of the…

The problems of sovereign debt in Europe have been going on for nearly two years when Greece first emerged as a serious problem in the spring of 2010 and then Ireland later in the year.  Since that time, we have seen Portugal, Spain and Italy all come into the glaring spotlight of scrutiny for the…

In the last couple of weeks, we saw a stronger than expected report on inflation, which dashed hopes that the pace of inflation had begun to slow down.  In response, the Federal Reserve Bank, at its regular scheduled meeting last Tuesday and Wednesday, raised short-term interest rates by .75%, the largest increase since 1994, in…