Looking Back at the Markets in April and Ahead to May 2023
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network After moderate gains in March, markets continued to rally in April.…
What Mattered This Week? Banks Seek Help from the Fed
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network There were two events that mattered this week. First was the…
Market Focus Moves from the Fed to Financial Crisis
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network Yesterday, the Fed completed its regular meeting and announced that it…
Will Q4 Earnings Defy Expectations?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network We are at the start of the period in which companies…
What 2022 Taught Us About Risk
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network For investors, 2022 has been a tough year. We had bear…
Will Midterm Madness Affect Markets?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network One of the questions I have been getting recently is about…
Looking Back at the Markets in August and Ahead to September 2022
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network August was a resumption of the earlier pullback after a surprisingly…
2022 Market and Economic Outlook: Finding the Upside
by Brad McMillan, CFA®, CAIA, MAI, Managing Principal, Chief Investment Officer, Commonwealth Financial Network® As we closed out…
The Next 'Crisis': The Debt Ceiling
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial After the past several crises, some real and some manufactured, we are…
Are Consumers Losing Confidence?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial One of the key indicators I follow is consumer confidence. With more…
Midyear Outlook 2021: The Long and Winding Road Back to Normal
by Brad McMillan, CFA®, CAIA, MAI, Managing Principal, Chief Investment Officer, Commonwealth Financial Network®, Member FINRA/SIPC If we…
Is the Stock Market in a Bubble?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network There has been a lot of talk about whether the stock…
Pandemic Economic Damage Gets Worse
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network The third wave of the pandemic may be showing signs of…
Is the Recent Market Pullback a Good Thing?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network Today, we have another down day in the markets, as the…
Is a Hopeful Market a Vulnerable One?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network As of yesterday, the markets spiked again, taking the major indices…
