Vericrest Insights

Happy Cinco de Mayo! What a tumultuous month in the equity markets, marked by the biggest stock declines since the early days of the Covid pandemic, huge single-day surges and similar swings in other investments, such as U.S. Treasuries. Despite the violence of the daily shifts, the monthly changes in major indexes were muted, with … Read more

We are going to start off with some perspective…. “I need to get out now and wait until the market comes back.” “I’ll wait until the market pulls back before I add more.” These are examples of investors who do not have an overall plan. When investors talk like this – and, worse yet, make … Read more

If you read or watch any sort of financial news, you’ve, no doubt, seen/heard prognosticators talk of the current valuation of the stock market – are we at the precipice of a market correction? To assess whether the stock market, specifically the S&P 500, is overvalued, we can look at its forward-looking price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio … Read more

Good afternoon. It’s been a turbulent week for markets, driven by key developments across multiple sectors. From major AI breakthroughs that could reshape the tech industry to the Federal Reserve’s latest policy stance and newly imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, investors are navigating a shifting landscape as we head into February. Each of … Read more

Happy New Year! Not sure about you, but I’ll still be writing 2024 until at least the middle of February. And speaking of 2024, if inflation was the word investors feared in 2023, AI was the word they couldn’t get enough of in ’24, as the hype for generative AI surged, reached fever pitch, and … Read more