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The stock market is capable of remarkable clairvoyance. Sometimes.

On Friday, September 30, Vestbridge Advisors Founder and CEO Sean Hanlon was featured on the ‘New To The Street’ program hosted by Jane King, with targeted distribution on NewsMaxTV, Bloomberg TV and Fox Business News.

We read a lot at Vestbridge Advisors, Inc. and this article is worthy of sharing. This is a reprint from the Yahoo Finance 10/11/2022 Morning Brief.

Wall Street firms have begun publishing their 2023 forecasts for the S&P 500.

Targets published by seven top equity strategists range from 3,800 to 4,200, implying returns of 4% to 15% from current levels.

The value of the stock market, at any given time, is essentially the price investors collectively are willing to pay for the future earnings of the companies comprising the market.

With three quarters of 2022 in the books, inflation continues to present a conundrum for the US Federal Reserve (“the Fed”) as it seeks to cool the economy just enough to bring prices down to a sustainable level without causing a recession and triggering panic in the markets.

Roughly speaking — very roughly – there are five theories, and two subsidiary theories, proposed by different groups of economists and others to explain rising prices, or “inflation” so-called:

Sunday, October 2, 2022; CEO Sean Hanlon was featured on the New To The Street program hosted by Jane King on NewsMaxTV at 10am ET.

There are many indicators that we as professional wealth and asset managers follow. One of them is the Put/Call Ratio.

As we near the fourth quarter of 2022, many investors are feeling anxious and uncertain about their portfolios as markets grind continuously lower in a bear market that began in January.

No investment strategy is infinitely infallible and always works. One that typically weathers most economic and market conditions is the 60/40, stock/bond, typically referred to as the classic balanced portfolio.