Market In A Minute Blog

PVG Market In A Minute - September 6, 2023

Last week the market took advantage of the quiet period before Labor Day pushing the markets up, but still down -1.6% in August for the S&P 500. The market was led by technology

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PVG Market In A Minute - August 29, 2023

Powell’s speech from Jackson Hole was almost exactly what we expected, the market may have believed it was hawkish. There is now a 20% chance of an interest rate increase in September

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PVG Market In A Minute - August 22, 2023

Our opinion is to be patient and move money out of defensive holding after the stock market is lower. Short-term bonds are very attractive. We have been looking for a -5% to -10% pullback in August and September.

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PVG Market In A Minute - August 15, 2023

We think mergers and acquisitions are coming back. Toward the end of many market cycles, that we have experienced, acquisitions heat up. The reason is economic growth slows down...

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PVG Market In A Minute - August 8, 2023

We have been looking for a 5%-10% pullback in the market, especially as we have entered the worse 2 months seasonally. The S&P 500 was down -2.3% last week.

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PVG Market In A Minute - August 1, 2023

The current expectations are for 200,000 new job gains for July, with the unemployment rate expected to be unchanged at 3.6%. The trend in how job trends generally play out...

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PVG Market In A Minute - July 25, 2023

GOOG, MSFT, TXN, and V on Tuesday. GOOG has a low bar to jump over, I am not sure if management has the fire in the belly. We think they have an extraordinary business model...

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PVG Market In A Minute - July 18, 2023

This week, the important economic data will be Retail Sales and Housing data, very good indicators for the economy. In terms of earnings, we are looking forward to hearing

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PVG Market In A Minute - July 11, 2023

Now that the markets are higher with significantly higher valuations, bonds rates moving up recently is a big negative for the stock market

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PVG Market In A Minute - June 27, 2023

It was an interesting Saturday watching what was happening in Russia. Can you imagine a U.S. force of 25,000 barreling down the highway toward Washington D.C.

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