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Oakland, CA | Piedmont; High Oil Prices and Rising Interest Rate Environment

Hi, I'm Erik Wolfers, founder and managing member of First and Main Financial. We've been helping clients with perfectly personalized financial solutions since 2001. Today, I want to give just a little bit of an update on the markets. Periodically, we go through very challenging economic times. Sometimes there are fears that drive markets lower but fo…

Oakland, CA | Piedmont; First and Main Financial Q1 2022 Market Summary

Q1 2022: -7.24% - U.S. momentum stocks -4.45% & -15.96% - Emerging markets (small & profit) stocks -7.30% - International profitability stocks -4.61% - U.S. large stocks -7.94% - Global high yield bonds -0.11% & -13.87% - U.S. small (value & profit) stocks -7.12% - CA municipal bonds…

Oakland, CA; Piedmont | Ukraine: Measuring Market Volatility with the VIX Index

Hi, I'm Erik Wolfers, founder and managing member of First & Main Financial. We've been crafting perfectly personalized financial solutions for clients since 2001. Today, I want to talk a little bit about stock market volatility which I've discussed somewhat in the past—but we've had negative global events with Russia invading Ukraine, which of course is…

Oakland, CA | East Bay; The Federal Reserve and Managing Market Volatility

Hi, I'm Erik Wolfers, founder and managing member of First & Main Financial. We've been helping our clients with perfectly personalized financial solutions since 2001—creeping up on 21 years now. Today, I want to talk just a little bit about markets and volatility. We've been going through some volatility lately in the stock markets as well as in the bo…

Oakland, CA | East Bay; Q4 2021 – Will Inflation Slow Down Markets in 2022?

2020, the year of the start of the pandemic, saw some phenomenal performances in the stock market with our best fund that year (domestic small profitability) being up almost 60%. That performance was on the heels of a 37.48% gain in 2019. ‘The market can’t go up every day,’ I always respond to one of my original clients when he mentions a big down day or a v…

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