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Weekly Market Recap

What Happened Last Week Trade Headlines: The US announced new tariffs against Brazil, Mexico, the EU, and others, but pushed the deadline out to August 1. Trump vs Powell: The

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Weekly Market Recap

What Happened Last Week All-Time Highs: Although shortened by the holiday, last week saw the major indices make fresh all-time

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A Rapid Recovery

Man-made tariffs, then un-man-made, took markets on a wild ride this quarter After plummeting nearly 19% on tariff fears, the

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Weekly Market Recap

What Happened Last Week Middle East Escalation: Investors largely shrugged off rising tensions last week, assuming a weakened Iran will

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Weekly Market Recap

What Happened Last Week Israel Strikes Iran: Israel struck Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and senior military leadership, leading to open conflict

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Weekly Market Recap

What Happened Last Week Labor Data: Friday’s non-farm payrolls report showed a slowing, but still a healthy labor market. Broadcom

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Stocks Bloom In May

Consider a goals-based investment perspective going into summer The old adage “April showers bring May flowers” proved true on Wall

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A Tariff Turnaround

Despite lower levies for now, uncertainty remains On Monday, the U.S. and China announced that they will temporarily suspend the

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Is The Worst Behind Us?

Although uncertainty remains, perpetual market swings may be less frequent While still higher than what Wall Street would prefer, market

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The Lag 7

The shift in market leadership continues The uncertainty weighing on stock prices lately has hit many of the market’s highest

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Take A Breath

Recent stock market losses are not as bad as they may seem Last week saw the S&P 500 have its

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A Small-Cap Surprise Party

Earnings have been much better than expected thus far among the market’s small companies. Large-company stocks have outpaced their small-cap

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AI in Flux

What does Nvidia’s historic rout mean for investors?  The bad news: AI darling Nvidia lost $593 billion in market capitalization

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Dance of the Dollar

Will Trump’s tariffs push the greenback even higher?  The U.S. dollar has risen sharply in value versus other world currencies

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Time to Think Small?

Small-cap stocks may offer tactical opportunities.  Investors who expect a late-year, post-election rally in small-company stocks may need to be

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Bitcoin Ascendant

The digital currency seems to have the wind at its back these days.  An ongoing post-election surge drove Bitcoin’s price

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Aahhhh…

With election results finalized, investors take a breath. The election is over—and financial markets are breathing a huge sigh of

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A Strong Foundation

Consumer spending, corporate earnings, and the overall economy remain robust. Investors will examine one of the last snapshots of the

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China Takes Off

It’s been 17 years since we’ve seen a weekly return this strong Long-suffering Chinese stocks broke out of their doldrums

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Let’s Get It Started

Are you ready? All eyes are on Jerome Powell on Wednesday as investors await the Federal Reserve Board’s near-certain decision

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A Smoother Road?

Successful investing doesn’t have to be a thrill ride. Anyone who has driven California’s Pacific Coast Highway or North Carolina

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A Fall Harvest?

Here’s how stocks may perform for the rest of 2024 As the fall harvest season begins, it’s a time of

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Ready To Cut

Fed Chair Powell tees up the long-awaited rate cut Fed Chair Powell said just about everything investors wanted to hear

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Don’t Panic!

The S&P 500 fell 3% on Monday—its biggest one-day decline in nearly two years—amid growing fears that July’s slowdown in

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The Comeback Kids

A growing number of stocks are having their moment in the sun Everybody loves a good comeback story: Seabiscuit. The

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The Case Against Pessimism

Don’t read too much into harbingers of stock market doom and gloom Sometimes, it pays—literally—to look beyond what’s “obvious” to

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July is Hot!

Is the seventh month of the year a stock investor’s best friend? While scorching temperatures continue to sweep across much

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Simply Ncredible

Thanks to AI, it seems a bunch of people want Nvidia’s semiconductors. Is it Nvidia’s world and we’re just living

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In Fighting Shape

Are U.S. consumers ready to go more rounds? “When will the consumer finally crack?” is a question that seems to

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The Details Matter

Derivatives can be effective when you know what you’re buying or selling. Covered call option strategies can be an innovative

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High Yield Action

Taking a tactical approach to “junk” bonds Yield-hungry investors eyeing an eventual Fed rate cut are moving into high-yield corporate

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An Inflation Head-Fake?

Prices of many services are heating up again. Last week, we learned that the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge—the core personal

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A World of Opportunity

Do shares of non-U.S. companies deserve a place in your portfolio? With soaring U.S. stocks—and domestic tech stocks in particular—capturing

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People Have Power!

Robust consumer spending continues to support a strong economy.  Last week’s impressive jobs data—employers added 353,000 new jobs in January,

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Good Vibes

The economy and inflation are lining up as investors hoped they would. All eyes were on the Fed this week

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Weekly Market Recap | 1/16/24

What happened last week Magnificent-7 (“MAG-7”) mega-caps led the “broadening-out” trades’ outperformers (e.g. small caps). Benign December CPI & PPI

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Perking Up!

Most stocks have been laggards this year, but that could be starting to change.  It’s no secret that a minute

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Small Packages

Will December bring glad tidings to small-company stocks? Small-cap stocks have had quite the slog this year. Punished by rising

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A Good Option

One active approach to risk management is currently beating the market. Risk management can be an important component of goals-based

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A Hard Road

Three years of less-than-stellar financial market performance. It’s been a tough slog for investors over roughly the past three years,

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The Homebuyer Blues

House hunters are facing a shocking number these days. Pity today’s homebuyers who are looking at an average monthly mortgage

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Q3 2023 Review + Market Outlook Webcast

https://www.horizoninvestments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Q3-Webcast-Super-TB-Small_1.mp4 Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner and Managing Director of Consulting Solutions Austin Fitch review the third quarter of 2023

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Turbulence Ahead?

Stock investors may want to brace for some bumps in the road. After months of gains and low volatility from

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Call Me!

A covered call strategy offers the potential for risk mitigation, current income, and outperformance. Innovative strategies to mitigate risk and

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Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

The positive surprises in the labor market just keep on coming. Job creation in the U.S. continues to defy expectations.

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A One-Stock Army?

Apple is once again worth more than the entire Russell 2000 In Marvel movies, it’s common for one superhero to

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The Wheat and the Chaff

Identifying investment opportunities may take a sharper focus going forward Fears about banks’ financial health have dominated many investors’ thoughts

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Too Much of Nothing

What tools can investors use to fight longevity risk in retirement?  Many retirees today probably remember the 1976 disco hit

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A Tale of Two Markets

There’s tech, and there’s the rest Investors in tech stocks these days are a wildly happy bunch. Everybody else? Not

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Europe Hits the Brakes

All eyes were once again on interest rates last week, as the European Central Bank (ECB)—the eurozone’s equivalent of the

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Fast Take: Market Update

https://www.horizoninvestments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Fast-Take-With-Zach-Hill.mp4 Hear Horizon’s view of the markets as we head into the fall, along with our expectations around Fed policy,

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Is now the time for ESG?

Many investors and financial advisors are still in the dark on what ESG factor investing means and how quickly the data behind this style of investing…

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