global market news
The domestic market, measured by the bellwether Standard and Poor’s 500 index, marked 100 basis points higher on the day. The Dow tested it’s record, with 300 points in the green and the tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 increased over 2 percent. On the year, the bellwether has marked an over 9 percent gain, underperforming smaller peers, as the Standard and Poor’s 400 and 600 indices have marked over 14 and 17 percent, respectively.
The more relevant, global markets, have followed the positive performance on the year. Global economies, as measured by the Standard and Poor’s Global Broad Market Indices, have compensated investors comparably. Developed economies have increased, in entirety, near 12 percent. Emerging market economies, have compensated investors comparably, near 12 percent on the year.
I will return to this passion, which I adore, and write in great length once again in the near future.
Until then, I find a task of the greatest humanitarian crisis on the globe in the palm of my hand. Modern day slavery, implemented through invisible cages, as I have come to learn, is prevalent.
While I am well-versed in economics, wealth advice, estate planning, and equity and debt markets, up and down the capital stack, modern day slavery is not my specialty.
or so I once thought…
I can confidently say, with thanks to independent research, which has carried from my time in capital markets- I am now one of the most knowledgeable voices in this space. I owe a special thanks to several, who once trained or had been employed, by the most private of agencies and entities. These individuals have been instrumental in sharing their experience and education, which was once unfamiliar territory.
In justifying the dedication of my time to the knowledge, this is not arguably, but truly, the greatest risk to my clients in the future and today. In becoming educated on this topic, I am fulfilling my fiduciary duty to clients in a way that I haven’t seen done in the past, and do not see today.
Those who are unprepared for the state of neurowar and cognitive deception, will fall behind to those who know how to protect their clients from this present, and growing threat.
