Commentary and Insights

Market Overviews Published Quarterly

Market Commentary - April 2022

“We’re gonna be in the Hudson.”

— Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III, January 15, 2009

No, they didn’t land in their original destination of Charlotte, North Carolina. But if you ask any of the 155 passengers if they were satisfied with their journey, the response would be resoundingly positive. There
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Market Commentary - January 2022

“I choose a block of marble and chop off what I don’t need.”

— Auguste Rodin; 1840-1917

In response to the stock market’s 25% drop on October 19, 1987, Italian artist Arturo Di Modica sculpted the bronze Bull of Wall Street and dropped it, sans permission, right in front
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“One thing, just one thing.” - October 2021

In the movie City Slickers , Mitch, played by Billy Crystal, is a softie from New York City who attempts to shake up his mundane life by going on a cattle drive from New Mexico to Colorado. Mitch and other urban-dwellers are led by a gruff cowboy named Curly,
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