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Historically, stocks tend to be a bust in August. July was the eighth positive month out of the last nine, but it was quickly forgotten when August started with a big market drop.

It's funny to remember how my friends and I played Spin the Bottle at junior high birthday parties. I didn’t have a girlfriend, and all the girls were cute, so I didn’t mind who the bottle pointed to. Up until now, that was what I considered the Great Rotation. Today,...

I bought a first-year model GMC truck a few years ago and had to have it towed three times in the first month. The computer was causing the emergency brake to lock up and not release. It took GM a few weeks to work out a computer patch, but once they did, it has been...

I had a business professor who was frustrated with our class and unexpectedly changed his test schedule. We complained that it wasn’t normal to change the test dates from what was printed in the syllabus, and he said, “That was yesterday’s normal; today's normal is a...

Joe Shearrer, is a Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Fervent Wealth Management Growing up, can you remember a time you were in a bicycle wreck?  When I turned five, I received a brand-new bike for my birthday.  The excitement got the best of me as I headed down our...

I think there are two kinds of people in the world: those who hit the brakes when they see a yellow light and those who hit the gas. I’m a person who doesn’t slow down for yellow lights. I think the stock market light is turning yellow, and I’m watching to see what...

“Dad, what if we made a washing machine that automatically dried the clothes too?” My teenage son is very creative and always dreams of new business ideas. I always ask him, "Will it be profitable enough to justify the expense?” Spending on artificial intelligence...

Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri. “The Fed’s biggest inflation-fighting tool is raising the federal funds rate, which affects bank loans, CD rates, and mortgage rates.”

Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri. “Investors navigated around the end of first-quarter earnings, record highs for the market, elevated volatility in fixed-income and currency markets, and increased political uncertainty stemming from former President Donald Trump’s conviction.”

Consumer confidence numbers released Tuesday showed an unexpected improvement in US consumer confidence in May after dropping for three straight months.

Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri. “Stocks are having a great May so far, up just over 5% as of the 22nd, and investors seem to be pouring money into a wide variety of stocks.”

“The 2021 meme-stock darlings GameStop and AMC theaters are at it again, and I’m afraid it will end just as badly.” Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

” “Excess Savings,” which the market calls any savings amount above the average 2019 savings percentage, has been a popular topic among market analysts. ”  Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

“The S&P 500 index fell 4.2% in April, its worst performance since September, after having its best first-quarter rate of return in five years.” Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

“Investors are focusing this week on big tech earnings from Tesla, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Alphabet, and Microsoft.” Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

As a boy, I thought I had a superpower for a few days. I was standing outside of my parent's house, and I heard a noise. I was able to tell the direction the sound was coming from. I seriously thought that everyone else could only hear sounds, and I alone could...

“This is your captain speaking.” I had to fly to the East Coast last week for some meetings, and about a half-hour into our two-hour flight, the captain announced, " We’re a quarter of the way to our destination and have reached our cruising altitude. I don’t expect...

 Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri. “It has been just over four years since the pandemic market low. It began when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020.”