- Individuals
- Small businesses
- Foundations
- Corporations
- Employee benefit accounts
August comes in as the "Dog Days" with record heat is upon us. So it is great to find someone in the cool during this time period. We got burned in the last quarter and rebounded nicely in July. Almost all accounts that got trimmed in May and June recovered more than 50% of the lost values.
We are in for some more rocky times. The Fed Reserve is replacing cash redemptions in its bad loan pool, with Treasuries. Banks are not lending, or offering good interest rates. So more bank failures will be coming in the next quarter. It’s simple math on the recovery. Banks lend money to small to medium businesses for operations and hires. Businesses generate cash flow and income, consumers buy their goods, Then we have a recovery based on jobs and consumer purchasing power.
What is the status of the market sectors? In July the Food, beverage and tobacco, Furniture, Machinery, Nonmetallic minerals sectors were down.
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