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See our recap of August's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers 50 Bitcoin topped $50,000 in August before finishing the month at $47,070. The flagship cryptocurrency (along with many other digital coins) has been on an impr...

See our recap of July's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers -8.27% The energy sector was the worst performer in July, losing 8.27%. The decline was due both to the fears of future lockdowns caused by the Delta variant of C...

See our recap of June's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers 14.6%  The S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller home price index showed a year over year increase in home prices of 14.6% in April. This is the highest reading since th...

See our recap of May's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers 13.2%  The Case-Shiller Index, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, gained 13.2% in March, according to data released in May. This is the largest increase sinc...

See our recap of February's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers 45.8% As of April 30, FactSet reports the first quarter year over year earnings growth for companies in the S&P 500 was on track to be 45.8%. This is near...

See our recap of February's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers An estimated $9.6 billion in goods moves through the Suez Canal each day. Traffic ground to halt for nearly a week in late March as a containership, the Ever ...

See our recap of February's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers The outperformance of the S&P 500 Value index against the S&P 500 Growth index during the month of February. Value stocks, which drastically underperf...

See our recap of January's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers According to JP Morgan, with 49.9% of companies in the S&P 500 having reported Q4 earnings so far, 84% have beaten their estimated earnings and 70% have be...

See our recap of December's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers The S&P 500 locked in an 18.40% return in 2020, an excellent feat in any year, and even more so in year during which the global economy shut down due to a...

See our recap of November's key statistics and market commentary below.  Noteworthy Numbers The S&P SmallCap 600 returned 18.17% in November, leading US stock asset classes in what was its best month of the year.       The Energy sector increased...