2024 turned out to be another banner year for U.S. stocks.  The S&P 500 led the overall market gaining 23% in 2024.  This follows a 24% gain in 2023 and marks the first time since the late 1990’s that the index has had back-to-back gains of more than 20%.  In both...

The big news this quarter occurred only a couple of weeks ago when after two and a half years, the Federal Reserve finally reversed course and cut the fed funds rate by half a point.  This marks the end of the Fed’s battle to rein in the skyrocketing inflation that we...

Except for a brief pullback in the early part of January, the stock market rally that started in late October continued to roll through the first three months of this year.  The S&P 500, as well as most of the major averages, has gained roughly 10% this year.  All...