January 2022 Market Commentary Update When Covid-19 hit, the Federal Reserve and the government put over 8 trillion dollars into the economy to stimulate it. This influx created massive inflation, especially in real estate and a significant stock market rally. Now, the federal reserve is saying no more “Free Candy” as they pull back stimulus [...]

December 20, 2021 Market Commentary Omicron Fears and the Federal Reserve. Possibly no “Santa Claus” rally! The stock markets are presently reacting negatively to three realities it now faces: Last week, the Federal Reserve indicated it will begin tapering its bond-buying program in 2022. This tapering has given the markets and the economy artificial stimulation [...]

December 7, 2021 Market Commentary As of last week, three-month trailing returns for most of the well-known stock indexes like the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq were all basically flat, giving up all gains made in October and November. See more details below on our portfolios’ present positions. Our Biblically Responsible Portfolio Positions at this [...]

November 3, 2021 Market Commentary The Stock Markets rebounded strongly in October to recover its losses from September. On November 2nd, surprise news came out that the supposed contract between Hertz & Tesla for 100K vehicles was not a done deal. As expected, the Federal Reserve announced today it will soon begin reducing the pace [...]

October 4, 2021 Market Commentary The Stock Markets have been in a downward trend since September 2, 2021 with each low being lower than the one before and each high bouncing off the lows being lower than the high before.   At the time I am writing this commentary the S&P 500 index is down over [...]

By Bob Barber I hope this commentary finds all of you doing well. A few of you have contacted me lately asking how it's going with our managed portfolios.  To answer that question in a nutshell, we have been actively underweighting and overweighting the different sectors and asset classes that have been either oversold or [...]

State of the Company I hope this commentary finds you doing well as we all get settled into the new year. All the CIS staff is doing great and fortunately no one has gotten the coronavirus yet. We continue to be extremely careful by socially distancing ourselves from each other and fully utilizing online technologies [...]