Economy and Investing

Weekend Chart Challenge – Revisited

Posted Apr. 04, 2019

Back in August of 2015 markets around the world had gotten choppy after a period of extended calm and some were asking what was up and what was next. We offered the Weekend Chart Challenge as a way to put it all in perspective. Late...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Falling Flat: The Not-So-Predictive Yield Curve

Posted Jan. 10, 2019

If you’ve been following recent market news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the recent turmoil in the stock market. As we noted last week, 2018 was the first year in a decade that US markets finished lower than they started. This fact doesn't mean a lot...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Quick Take: Market Perspective in Two Charts

Posted Jan. 07, 2019

The stock market has become much more volatile in recent weeks and months and we thought we’d offer a brief perspective. First, we know you’ve seen the headlines that market performance last year was the worst in a decade, based on the S&P 500. That...

Topics: Economy and Investing

What the Stock and Bond Markets are Telling Us

Posted Oct. 18, 2018

OK, let’s be honest, we never really know what the stock and bond markets are telling us in real time. It is only after the fact, with the benefit of hindsight, that we know what the signal meant. The economy and the financial markets are...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Is it Smart Money or Dumb?

Posted Oct. 03, 2018

In Jason Zweig's latest Wall Street Journal offering "The ‘Dumb’ Money Is Bailing on U.S. Stocks. That’s Smart." he makes the case that "now more than ever, investors need to consider investing in overseas stock markets." His argument is based on the observation that no...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Short Take – Emerging Market Blues

Posted Sep. 20, 2018

Emerging markets (EM) have been in the news lately, in part because stock markets in those countries have been falling in recent months (for reasons we’ll discuss further) but also because of crises and disruptions occurring in a handful of specific countries. The New York...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Defining the “Perfect” Investment

Posted Sep. 06, 2018

If you asked a room of 100 people to define the “perfect” investment, you may not get 100 answers, but you’d certainly get more than one. And more than one answer may be correct! The criteria for judging the merits of an investment include the...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Grounded Investing

Posted May. 30, 2018

At Yeske Buie, we believe there is a science to investing. Unfortunately, much of what passes for investment activity has little connection to this science. To some degree, this comes from the natural human desire to “beat the system,” to gain some special advantage, to...

Topics: Articles of Interest, Economy and Investing, Financial Planning

The Correct Way to Think About “Corrections”

Posted Apr. 04, 2018

We’ve had a bit of a bumpy ride over the past two months as market volatility, strangely absent last year, has come roaring back. We think it’s all going to be fine (you knew we were going to say that) but it doesn’t mean we...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Hello volatility my old friend…

Posted Feb. 06, 2018

As was surely inevitable, volatility has returned to the markets after an historically quiescent couple of years. As this is being written, markets in Europe are down nearly 5% after a similar drop in the US on Monday. What should we make of this and...

Topics: Economy and Investing

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Economy and Investing

Weekend Chart Challenge – Revisited

Falling Flat: The Not-So-Predictive Yield Curve

Quick Take: Market Perspective in Two Charts

What the Stock and Bond Markets are Telling Us

Is it Smart Money or Dumb?

Short Take – Emerging Market Blues

Defining the “Perfect” Investment

Grounded Investing

The Correct Way to Think About “Corrections”

Hello volatility my old friend…

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