Articles

My wife and I are taking our family to Slovakia later this summer to hike the Suchá Belá Gorge. This is a beautiful yet treacherous hike up multiple waterfalls by climbing ladders and walking on sticks of rebar protruding from the rock. That all sounded great last...

This morning started differently than I expected. My daughter has been dealing with a virus for several days, and after a virtual visit with her doctor, we learned she may have chicken pox. As any parent knows, moments like that come with a lot of uncertainty. Are you...

Have you ever stood outside a ride at a theme park debating whether the line is worth it? I had this thought a few times while at a water resort with my family over Memorial Day weekend. While you're deciding, dozens of people get in line. An hour later, some of them...

We were so nervous! In 1997, my wife and I bought our first house and signed the papers for our $18,800 mortgage. going into debt for the first time. Looking back now, it wasn’t much money, but that debt felt like a huge responsibility. I suspect the tech companies...

My college-aged son called me upset a few weeks ago. The water pump went out and the head gasket blew on the car he bought himself. He said he saw the temperature gauge go up, and he pulled over as fast as he could, but it was too late; his engine was ruined. I’m...

I have been singing in my head, “East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'” for a few days now, as the continued closing of the Strait of Hormuz has led some companies to create interesting solutions. It looks more and more like a “Smokey and the Bandit” situation....

Last weekend, I had one of those rounds of golf that didn’t make much sense on paper. Typically, my strength is putting, the part of my game I rely on to save strokes and stay consistent. But this time, it was the opposite. My driver was dialed in, my irons were...

Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri. Seagate Technology is a global manufacturer of data storage products. They specialize in hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and storage systems. Its shares are up over 600% over the last year.

Individual investors, whom analysts call retail investors, are investing as if they were playing video games. There is a shaky truce in the Iran war, but the U.S. continues blockading Iran’s ports, and as I write this, Iran has fired on three cargo ships.

Major banks like JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup have described the consumer as “resilient,” noting that spending remains steady despite higher interest rates and persistent inflation. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Shortly after news broke about a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, global markets saw huge swings in volatility. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

As the first quarter of the market year comes to a close, it looks like the stock markets have endured this current difficult stretch. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Crude Oil prices plummeted, and stock markets rallied on the news from President Trump that the U.S. would pause bombing energy infrastructure early that morning. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Typically, during an oil crisis, for every 30% increase in oil prices, there is a 10-15% drop in the U.S. stock market. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

The Hormuz crisis has a second-order story almost nobody is covering, and it could hit your grocery bill harder than the gas pump. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Oil prices have surged 14% in the first few days as Iranian strikes on ships around the narrow Strait of Hormuz have driven energy prices into the conflict. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

The oil markets are in the crosshairs of the potential escalation between the US and Iran. Most of the concern is about transporting oil in the volatile Middle East region, especially if there were to be a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

2026 is shaping up to be a really big year for international stocks. Many of the global indexes are outperforming the S&P 500 this year. The economic forecast outlined in this material may not develop as predicted & there can be no guarantee that strategies promoted will be successful.