2nd Quarter Market Commentary 2016 The Long and Short of It: The price of oil continues to make headlines causing some to think that the stock market’s performance is at the mercy of oil’s performance. We do not believe that to be the case for U.S. markets....
On paper things looked great for the markets as we wrapped up the 3rd quarter. The S&P 500 was up 6.35%, foreign markets as measured by the MSCI EAFE rebounded and were up 6.92% and emerging markets were up 6.97%. Even the bond market had a decent...