Lowe Wealth Advisors Second Quarter, 2011 Outlook and Strategy Update As we close the first month of the second quarter, investor focus seems to have shifted away from the Middle East turmoil, the tragic events in Japan and the continued sovereign debt issues of Europe and on to the U.S. Debt Ceiling. At the same time,
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Market Update on Japan’s Tragedy Update 8:00 AM March 15: We expect a significant drop at the open of the equity markets this morning. Panic selling is being seen. The best point of comparison we can provide would be the reaction of the equity markets on 9/11. The fear of the extent and impact of
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Libya and oil prices continue to fuel market volatility this afternoon. Lowe Wealth Advisors believes that potential stabilization will occur when the Libya situation is resolved. Oil prices could relax and our domestic stock markets could recover. The wildcard remains a spreading of the unrest to other major oil producing nations. While Lowe Wealth Advisors has a strategy
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Lowe Wealth Advisors hopes that those of you who are located here in the Baltimore-Washington region have had minimal disruption from the recent winter weather. The good news is that in the first sign of spring, pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in about two weeks! We would like to update you regarding the current financial
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2010 Wrap Up To begin, we thought it would be helpful to revisit the significant financial events along with some of the Lowe Wealth Advisors perspectives for 2010. Last year began with an atmosphere of anticipation for continued economic recovery. The market responses were going “as expected” until late spring when the European Debt Crisis erupted
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The landscape is growing increasingly murky as we approach year-end Briefly looking back at 2010, we saw much of the economic recovery peaking in May. Since then, most indicators have hit a plateau or are growing more slowly than expected. While we have seen bright spots in seasonal retail sales and consumer spending, merchants have
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This is a Marathon NOT a Sprint As we write this market update the capital markets remain in a state of flux. We see “ebbs and flows” and market increases followed by market losses. We see three potential risks to the capital markets at this time. China China is aggressively attempting to hold-off inflationary pressures
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The stock market swings of this week are evidence about not only the volatility of the stock markets, but also the potential fragility of the current levels. The markets reacted negatively to the news that China had raised interest rates unexpectedly, only to rebound the very next day. Nothing changed in China, yet 24 hours
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Investors appear particularly eager to put the rough summer months behind them. They are latching onto any positive news and translating that into a stock market rally, at least for the past two days. Is this a welcome relief and a change in direction? Quite simply, no it is not. The stock market perception is
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At the time of this writing the broad markets are down over 2% (source WSJ.com). The recognition by the Federal Reserve that the recovery is weakening has further confirmed our outlook. In fact, it is likely that none of our readers were surprised by the Fed’s comments and actions yesterday. The declines in the stock
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