2023 Highlights: Q4 Update

Stocks Power Back but We May See More Volatility The S&P 500 missed hitting a new high by 0.01% on Friday, as stocks on the surface had a big week. Yet, peeling back the onion showed much of the gains came from large cap tech (Apple for instance gained more than 12% on the week), …

Ryan is on location at Hard Eight BBQ in Stephenville, Texas and even after a big meal, the insights keep coming. In this episode, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist,break down what the recent jobs numbers and economic data are really telli …

Here Comes August, Buckle Up We wish we knew why, but August is a month that tends to have a lot of out-of-the-blue scary events pop up along with a good deal of market volatility. Well, just one trading day into August and the pattern continues. A weak jobs report piled on some negative ta …

Stocks just keep climbing—and in this Take 5 episode, recorded live from downtown Chicago, hosts Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist, ask the big question: Will the market ever go lower again? After a historic rally this summer, they break d …

The incredible bull market continues, with the S&P 500 closing at a new all-time high each day last week. November 2021 was the last time we saw that usual feat. For the year, the S&P 500 is now up 8.6%, a long, long way from down 15% back in early April. We remain optimistic that …

In this week’s Take 5, hosts Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist, explore the strange disconnect between rising markets and skeptical investors—and what that might signal for the second half of 2025. Despite market gains of more than 25% sin …

The markets have mostly stabilized following a pause on President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, but plenty of uncertainty remains in the second half of the year, and it’s an open question whether the bulls or the bears will win out in the end. Check out what the Carson Investment Resear …

Tariffs have dominated the news and the markets in the first half of 2025, and with few trade deals announced since President Trump’s “Liberation Day” back in April, that seems unlikely to change in the second half of 2025.  Check out what the Carson Investment Research team has to say abou …

Do you have a fear of heights? This is known as acrophobia, which is something many, many investors have. Studies show the fear of failure hits much harder than the feeling of success. This is why we always remember our favorite sports team’s tough losses much more vividly years later than …

Tariffs, shelter costs, services inflation—what’s really driving prices in the U.S. economy right now? In this week’s Carson Take 5, Ryan and Sonu break down the latest inflation data and what it means for investors, the Federal Reserve, and the markets heading into the second half of 2025. …