Quarterly Market Views – Beck Capital Management

U.S. GDP, just reported, grew at 4.1% in the 2nd quarter and has averaged 3.1% for the past four quarters. The tax cuts, repatriation, and more friendly business environment has business and consumer confidence at the highest levels in 20 years. The result has been a recent surge in capex spending among businesses small and large.

As the employment rate has surged, resulting in more jobs than job applicants, business has begun to turn to productivity investment. These, along with concerns of debt and trade deficits are the topics for this quarter’s Market View. More significantly, these will be the theme for our investing over the next few months to years.

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Apr192018

Market View April 2018: Bull Market “long-in-the-tooth”?

By Frank Beck April 19, 2018 Leave a comment

It is likely that you’ve heard (probably many times) that the bull-market is old – one of the oldest in history. 1st, bull markets don’t die of old age and 2nd, this one has been hampered by over-regulation and anti-business sentiment for much of its life.

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Jan282018

Market View January 2018: Meaningful and Positive Impact of Tax Reform

By Frank Beck January 28, 2018 Leave a comment

Tax reform has created meaningful economic effects and significant investment opportunities. We discuss those opportunities, the impact of rising interest rates, and our investment themes for 2018 in this quarter’s report.

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Jul242017

Market View July 2017: The Market Advances as Washington Thrashes

By Frank Beck July 24, 2017

In this report we discuss Congress’ progress on the reform agenda, market valuation, and several of our investment themes for the second half of 2017.

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Apr242017

Market View April 2017: The U.S. Economy Advances As Washington Toils At Reform

By Frank Beck April 24, 2017

Since the November election, the media, investors and the public have been focused on the reform agenda in Washington. We believe the economy has a real opportunity to accelerate once Congress makes meaningful progress

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Jan132017

Market View January 2017: A Year of Political Change – A Year for Investment Selectivity

By Frank Beck January 13, 2017

The 115th Congress is seated and the new Administration will take office in several days. We believe fiscal policy changes will provide significant investment opportunities, but selectivity will be necessary as there will be winners and losers.

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Oct122016

Market View October 2016: A Disliked Bull Market

By Frank Beck October 12, 2016

To say the stock market is disliked is an understatement. Investors have withdrawn money from actively managed mutual funds for over 18 months. Yet the picture is relatively positive

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Jul122016

Market View July 2016: Brexit – The U.K. votes to leave the European Union

By Frank Beck July 12, 2016

For the U.S stock market, we believe the volatility driven by Brexit will be short-lived. We suspect that in a year or two we will look back and wonder what the fuss was all about. We are even more confident in five years that will indeed be the case.

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Apr72016

Market View April 2016: 2nd Quarter Outlook

By Frank Beck April 7, 2016

The stock market started off the year exceptionally weak, with all major market indexes down double digit percentages going into the low on February 11. We believe much of the weakness was due to selling by foreign sovereign wealth funds, where the related country’s fiscal budget is heavily affected by the price of crude oil.

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