Monthly Market Wrap (August 2026)

August 2026 presented investors with an unusually contradictory market environment. U.S. equities continued to advance despite weakening labor-market conditions, elevated long-term Treasury yields, persistent inflation pressure, and an increasingly…

Monthly Market Wrap (July 2026)

July was the month the argument that started in June finally got settled, and the market did not like the answer. June cracked the AI trade and then patched it up in the final two sessions. July reopened the wound, poured salt in it, and only…

Monthly Market Wrap (June 2026)

June was the month the market finally started arguing with itself. The first two days printed fresh record highs across the board, the middle of the month brought a hawkish new Fed chair and a savage AI selloff that wiped more than a trillion…

Monthly Market Wrap (May 2026)

The month of May 2026 will be remembered as the moment two structural forces — the AI earnings supercycle and the Iran war's de-escalation — combined to produce one of the most dramatic equity rallies in a generation. The S&P 500…

Monthly Market Wrap (April 2026)

The global financial ecosystem in April 2026 operated at the intersection of a significant regional war and a transformative technological supercycle. While the month of March was characterized by the initial shock of open hostilities between…