Facts Vs Feelings Take 5 – Welcome to 2024

This week on Take 5, in the spirit of Halloween, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist at Carson Group, discuss market fears in a lighthearted way. They mention potential economic concerns like elevated mortgage rates, energy p …

A Down Week Well, it was bound to happen eventually, but stocks finally fell last week, with the S&P 500 Index down about 1.0%. Remember though, the index was higher the previous six weeks, giving us the longest weekly win streak this entire year. After such a strong week, some red on t …

This week on Take 5 (and from the Carson headquarters!) Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist at Carson Group, discuss all things gold! Gold is at all-time highs. Is it a bad thing? Tune in and hear Sonu and Ryan’s thoughts!

A Broken Record Tell me if you’ve heard this yet, but the S&P 500 gained last week with more new all-time highs. The S&P 500 has now made a new all-time high this year in all the months that don’t start with an ‘A’ (as in April and August). A total of 47 new all-time …

This week on Take 5, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist at Carson Group, discuss key factors such as rising inflation, the surge in small- and mid-cap stocks, and why investors remain calm despite higher CPI and PPI numbers. …

More New Highs for 2024 We might sound like a broken record, but stocks made more new highs last week. The S&P 500 is now up five weeks in a row, something it has done only two other times so far this year, falling during the sixth week each time. In fact, it hasn’t been …

This week on Take 5, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist at Carson Group, discuss the factors behind the current market strength and provide insights into what lies ahead. Tune in as they analyze: The impact of GDP growth Pro …

What A Run, But… Today is the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on Israel. That day and its aftermath have taken a tremendous human toll and tensions continue to escalate in the region, but our job is to focus on the impact on markets. Following October 7, 2023, oil …

Latest news out of China: Their stocks recently soared around 25% over five days. How could this affect the US stock market and economy? Carson Group’s Chief Market Strategist Ryan Detrick and VP, Global Macro Strategist Sonu Varghese share their insights. Highlights include:   US stock mar …

The Bull Market Continues Stocks had a rough start to September, but the bull market continued and it is looking like the S&P 500 will be higher this year in the usually weak month of September. (The S&P 500 was up 1.7% on a total return basis as of Friday, September 27, with one tr …