Final Tax Planning Tips for 2019

Final Tax Planning Tips for 2019

With year-end quickly approaching, taxpayers still have a few weeks left to plan with strategies that could provide meaningful tax savings. We included in the…

Edge Conference Call – Election Scenarios and Tax Proposals: What You Need to Know

Election Scenarios and Tax Proposals: What You Need to Know Dan Clifton and Jonathan Traub join Edge Capital to discuss 2020 election scenarios and tax…

Q4 2019 Quarterly Outlook

Edge Capital Group Q4 2019 Quarterly Outlook The barrage of negative economic and political headlines has resulted in a strong feeling of uneasiness in the…

What are the chances?

What are the chances?  Two of the pivotal points for the financial markets in the past several months has been US-China trade relations and Federal…

Yield Curve Inverts Further

On Wednesday, August 14, equity markets pulled back sharply on weak data out of Germany and China, fueling investor concerns over global growth. Germany’s economy…

Elevators and Escalators

It is often said that equity markets fall like an elevator and rise like an escalator.  We have seen that description hold true these last…

Trade Concerns Intensify

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Capital One Data Breach & Equifax Settlement

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Q3 2019 Quarterly Outlook

Edge Capital Group Q3 2019 Outlook The market is expecting that the US Federal Reserve will lower interest rates in late July, and potentially one…

US Earnings Season Kick Off

US earnings season officially kicked off last week, and through yesterday approximately 15% of the S&P 500 has reported results for the second quarter. This…

Up, up and away!

US equity markets established new all-time highs this week as the S&P 500 crested over 3,000 and the Dow exceeded 27,000.  Asset markets are ascending…

Fed Holds, Signals Cuts

At the FOMC meeting last week the Fed chose not to cut the Fed Funds Rate, but hinted that future cuts might be on the…

Making sense of the markets today

What do you have to believe to make sense of the bond and equity markets today? Fulfilling market expectations, this week the Fed kept rates…

The Global Bond Market

The global bond market is feeling negative. Truly negative.  Like “pay the issuer to take your money for years” negative.  Governments such as Germany, Japan,…

It all adds up

It all adds up. One, two, three, four. This week a combination of data points caused the equity market to rip and the 10-year US…

Curve ball

The Treasury yield curve is trying to tell you something.  The risk of a policy mistake is up and the risk to further economic expansion…

Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible.  You could say that was Theresa May’s mandate.  She faced a daunting task to execute on a 2016 referendum to separate the UK…

Who put who in “timeout”?

An ultimatum from President Trump last Sunday night that tariffs will be raised should China back away from the trade deal was the big news…

It’s tea time

Reading tea leaves is a practice that started roughly in the seventeenth century when Dutch traders started the import of the commodity into Europe from…

Q2 2019 Quarterly Outlook

Whether the Federal Reserve bowed to political pressure or re-examined with fresh eyes the muddled (but weakening) fourth-quarter economic data, the renewed December policy language…

Four million

Four million.   That is how many words are in the US tax code (known as the Internal Revenue Code or IRC).  At a normal pace…

Everybody’s working it

Everybody’s working it.  The employment report on Friday showed 196k jobs added.  The unemployment rate remained low at 3.8% and wage growth kept at a…

The “Pain Trade”

Traders have a saying that the market “tends to create as much pain as possible”.  The context which provides meaning to the statement is that…

A new lease on life?

A new lease on life?  Usually you have a set date when a lease ends, but in the UK’s case it depends.  This week the…

The Devil is Always in the Details

The devil is always in the details.  This is as true in index-based investing as it is in life.  Take for example the unfortunate airline…

The Pendulum

The pendulum of market sentiment swung back from optimism this week landing the equity market in a tight spot.  There is a lot of good…

It is ironic

It is ironic……Equity market assets are increasingly becoming passive while at the same time equity market trading is becoming more algorithmic. According to the Investment…

Slow-growth is not no-growth

Looking back, it seems December left everyone in the cold.  This week, the US Census Bureau finally released their report on retail trade for the…

It’s time for a temperature check

It’s time for a temperature check.  Released this week, new research from UK scientists reviewed the effects of 16th century exploration on the climate of…

2019 Tax and Planning Guide

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You can’t always get what you want

You can’t always get what you want, but sometimes you do.  Like this week. The Fed knew exactly what to say to give the financial…

Q1 2019 Quarterly Outlook

Edge Capital Group Q1 2019 Outlook Investor sentiment dissolved quickly during the fourth quarter, wiping out earlier 2018 gains and pushing global equity markets soundly…