Quarterly Market Review – Second Quarter 2025
Once per quarter, we roll up our sleeves & take a deeper dive into what's happened in the stock market—our quarterly market review (January- March 2024).
On April 8th, MANY people were convinced that world was ending, the sky was falling, and we would never recover as the S&P closed at 4982 versus 5868 on January 2nd. That's a 15% drop!!! To make things worse, it had actually gotten all the way UP to 6144 on February 19th. That mean's April 8 was a 19% "draw down" from the peak of the market
Fast forward to June 30th and we saw the S&P hit a new high of 6204. That's a 25% INCREASE from the April 8 bottom. And just shy of a 6% increase since January 2. Suddenly everyone is "all in" on the market and convinced that all is right with the world
I'm writing the IDENTICAL thing this quarter that I did LAST quarter. And don't be surprised if I repeat the next quarter. And the next. And the next. See a pattern? I certainly hope so!!!
Keeping a long-term perspective is CRITICAL to ensuring we do NOT "jump ship" when everyone is screaming "fire"! I am confident that this "crisis du jour" will pass.
Always available to connect if you have any questions or need any information
Curt
Click here to view our Q2 Quarterly Market Review.
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