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Monthly Market Update for April: New All Time Highs Despite Market Uncertainty
Jesse Ellington | PresidentMay 14, 2026 April’s performance is a reminder that markets can experience strong rebounds even in the face of ongoing investor concerns.

Special Update: Iran and Long-Term Investing
March 6, 2026 Jesse Ellington | Ned Abbe | Bruce Faurot As you have seen in the news, the U.S. and Israel have launched military

2025 Year in Review: A Historic Market Year for Investors
2025 was a historically strong year for markets despite the many events that took place along the way. The past year delivered no shortage of

Special Update: Venezuela, Oil, and the Impact on Portfolios
Jesse Ellington | PresidentJanuary 14, 2026 The arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces represents an unexpected and significant geopolitical event. As has

Near-Term Resilience, Long-Term Fragility
Despite significant policy and geopolitical shocks this year, the global economy has demonstrated surprising resilience. Policy volatility has eased, AI-driven investment continues to accelerate, and growth forecasts for 2025–26 have been revised higher across the U.S., Europe, and China.

Finding Perspective Amid Recession Fears
The stock market has stumbled with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq declining year-to-date.1 While tariffs have garnered the most attention, investors are also concerned about

What the Trump Trade Means for Long-Term Investors
While the political world will focus on the election for some time, financial markets have already shifted their attention to the next administration’s policies, Federal

What Fed Rate Cuts Mean for Investors
The Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions remain a focal point for markets. While the timing and size of rate cuts are the subject of debate,

How Tax Proposals and the Election Impact Investors
With less than two months until the presidential election, the policy platforms for President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are gradually forming. Through

How Gold, Bitcoin and Market Breadth Impact Diversified Portfolios
The stock market rally should pause as investors weigh the timing of the first Fed rate cut this cycle. So far this year, the S&P

Market Update: 2024 Outlook
In 2023, the majority of predictions missed the mark as most anticipated a recession at the start of the year. Highly paid strategists, once again,

What a Goldilocks Jobs Report Means for the Fed and Investors
There’s a common saying among investors that markets take the stairs up and the elevator down. This is because the long-term trends that drive markets

Dover Advisors Expands with New Office and Leadership in Atlanta, GA
Bruce Faurot joins Dover Advisors from Janney Montgomery Scott, leading Dover’s new office RICHMOND, VA, October 3, 2023 – Dover Advisors today announced its expansion

7 Market and Economic Insights for the Second Half of 2023
Major stock market indices made significant gains in the first half of the year due to improving inflation, slowing Fed rate hikes, the absence of

5 Insights for Navigating Banking Crises in Q2 and Beyond
In times of market uncertainty, investors often turn to sayings such as “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” and

Should We Ignore Crowd-Think?
In the investment world, following the crowd can be hazardous. We seem to be at one of those inflection points where this piece of market

We Are Trying to Look Beyond a FedDriven Year
Inflation, interest rates, and the Fed have been the driving forces behind the market in 2022. These factors broke a number of trends that have

Bad News is Good News
Can we please just get some bad economic news? Given the markets’ hyper focus on inflation data, we are entering a prolonged period of bad

Game of Chicken
There is a lot of gloom and doom seeping into investor psychology at the moment. While much of that anxiety is well founded, some is