by Tom Ventresca | Jul 14, 2019 | Mr. Seifert Sez
I Some Things Never Change! t was a pretty typical week in both the markets and in politics. The equity markets closed Friday on new all time highs, but since the markets can never go down again that was to be expected. There was the sex scandal involving Jeffery...
by Tom Ventresca | Jul 7, 2019 | Mr. Seifert Sez
The New Washington Circus: The Census! Here we go again with a new circus in Washington. We couldn’t wait for the Mueller report to unfurl on July 17th and now we need something better. How about the census report of 2020? Census reports have been taking place since...
by Tom Ventresca | Jun 30, 2019 | Mr. Seifert Sez
Best First Half In 22 Years – So What? The first half of the year is now in the books and it is one to remember. It was the best semiannual performance since the Spring of 1997. I am sure many investors don’t remember that because they were in grade school...
by Tom Ventresca | Jun 23, 2019 | Mr. Seifert Sez
Why Is The Fed Cutting Now? On Wednesday the Fed met and decided it was not going to cut rates at this meeting, but the Futures market has a built in 100% chance that there will be a quarter point cut in July. This doesn’t make much sense to me. U.S. equities are at...
by Tom Ventresca | Jun 17, 2019 | Mr. Seifert Sez
Can’t We Get Along? Things got testy again this week with our good friend Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Mr. Trump sparring over who is causing Oil tankers to blow up in the Strait of Hormuz. According to the President of Iran the problem is being caused...
by Tom Ventresca | Jun 9, 2019 | Mr. Seifert Sez
Market Stages Biggest Rally of 2019! As usual markets never announce themselves, they just happen. Following all of the gloom and doom in May when equities got hammered for six straight weeks, someone forgot to tell the Bears that the Bulls still had some ammo left. ...
