Week of 12/21/2021

We will be open but working remotely on Dec 23rd and December 31st. We will be answering the phone and emails as needed. Our office will be closed on December 24th, as will the markets, in observance of the Christmas holiday. We hope that you have a wonderful Christmas and thought you might enjoy this 2018 oldie from the Joe’s (and Chris).

We are aware of the latest cybersecurity threat, vulnerability in widely-used code library Log4J. Commonwealth has been working to address the issue and has not detected any impacts so far. Data security is one of our key concerns and we remain confident that our partnership with CFN provides excellent resources in this area. Planning to eat turkey for Christmas? Thinking of frying one? It’s delicious, but folks get hurt every year using this method, often because the turkey is still frozen and will explode. Why? Learn more here. Inflation is mixed in its correlation to market returns. According to BTN research, in the last 70 years (1951-2020), inflation as measured by the “Consumer Price Index” (CPI) has been at least +5% in 12 different years, most recently in 1990. The S&P 500 has been equally split over the 12 high-inflation years, advancing in 6 years and falling in 6 years (on a total return basis).

Ask the Joes® returns next week!

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