On The Markets

On The Markets
Podcast Description
Understanding the stock market and economy probably wasn’t on your bucket list when you were a kid, when you graduated high school or even today 😂. And yet there it is, day after day, looming in the background and affecting real life events for you and your family, good and bad. Why’d it go up? When’s it going down? Wait, is “the market” actually much bigger than just 500 US stocks? It’s complicated. And they make it complicated on purpose! On The Markets gives context to complexity. A stock market and economy show in plain English. Hosted by Fermata Advisors co-founders Daren Blonski CFP® AIF®, Chris Sipes CFP ® AIF®, podcast host Dano Weir and more. The team shares the weekly economic, governmental and technical inputs that may be affecting the performance outputs in your portfolio, tax situation and more. Powered by the brands of Fermata Advisors, including Sonoma Wealth, Fermata 401k and Fermata Tax.
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The show covers a variety of topics related to the stock market and economic trends, including tariffs, consumer sentiment, federal reserve policies, and international market performance, with recent episodes discussing the impacts of tariffs on the market and the relationship between consumer sentiment and stock prices.

Understanding the stock market and economy probably wasn’t on your bucket list when you were a kid, when you graduated high school or even today 😂. And yet there it is, day after day, looming in the background and affecting real life events for you and your family, good and bad.
Why’d it go up?
When’s it going down?
Wait, is “the market” actually much bigger than just 500 US stocks?
It’s complicated. And they make it complicated on purpose!
On The Markets gives context to complexity. A stock market and economy show in plain English. Hosted by Fermata Advisors co-founders Daren Blonski CFP® AIF®, Chris Sipes CFP ® AIF®, podcast host Dano Weir and more. The team shares the weekly economic, governmental and technical inputs that may be affecting the performance outputs in your portfolio, tax situation and more.
Powered by the brands of Fermata Advisors, including Sonoma Wealth, Fermata 401k and Fermata Tax.
Cut the rates, money will be cheaper, millions can refinance, market tends to love rate cuts, …what could go wrong?
This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski , Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir explain:
- Why the scenario where rates need to be cut means we are likely looking at a major economic downturn
- Why single family home sales are looking like 2008
- In the last 20 years should you have been in all gold or all stocks? Joke’s on all of us, it’s a push? a
- What is a massive drop in “Doctor Copper” telling us about a possible recession?
8:01 US vs Global Equity Returns
11:45 US Equities vs The Rest Of The World since 2009
14:00 Investor sentiment
15:25 Odds of a rate cut
19:33 Job numbers
23:09 2 year treasury vs. Fed Funds Rate
27:30 Americans own more stocks than ever
31:25 Time between S&P 500 All Time Highs
33:12 S&P 500 – where are we going over time? CAPE ratios
35:38 Russell 2000 is still a dog
37:00 Gold vs. US Stock Market
40:10 New single family homes at near 2008 levels
43:20 Why do we look at “Doctor Copper”?
44:24 Jobs numbers
54:48 Market heat map
55:10 10 year treasury
56:23 Oil performance
59:00 NVidia and Microsoft performance
1:02:00 Agg Bond index
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