Weekly Market Commentary

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group How can a massively disruptive event can leave such an indelible mark on the world that most observers find strikingly beautiful? Glaciers, volcanos, and rivers all shape their…

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group The market has seemed to recover quickly and is nearly back to even for the year despite the severe market decline in the first quarter. The decline was…

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group We are still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest, and a major election year. While markets enjoyed a nice recovery in April and May, June has been…

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group Markets have been rallying hard despite seeing depression era numbers, high unemployment, businesses struggling to reopen (at least many small businesses) and social unrest. Nevertheless, the market trudges…

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group From V to U or square-root – what does the shape of recovery look like? Last week we had a Live Market Update and enjoyed presentations from two…

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group There is no shortage of guessing these days as to what our future may look like. Some guesses are rosy. Some are dark and cloudy. What we do…

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group No one has 100% certainty of where we are headed next, so having a framework to make decisions is far better than “investments-by-feeling.” Sometimes the current situation feels…

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group Feelings about this topic can get extreme at times and there is no shortage of opinions out there. QQQ, the large ETF tracking the NASDAQ, has risen 65%…

Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group After quite a ride over the past two weeks, it seems as though stock markets in the US have come to grips with the nasty spread of the…