by Gregory Prato | Jul 15, 2022 | Blog
July 14, 2022 With all of the negative headlines dominating the news today, what should investors do? Here are some questions that many clients may have and answers that may help during the volatile market periods like we see today: What does a possible recession mean...
by Gregory Prato | Jul 13, 2022 | Blog
At Prato Capital, we receive lots of emails from investment firms looking for our business, meaning they want us to invest our client’s hard-earned savings with them. And recently many of these emails have highlighted their short-term returns that have outperformed...
by Gregory Prato | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog
It has been quite the week in the economic and investment fields. The mainstream news and business programs have devoted a lot of airtime to this week’s news of the S&P 500 entering a bear market¹, the Federal Reserve raising the benchmark interest rate by 0.75%...
by Chris Conway - Prato Capital | May 5, 2022 | Blog
May 5, 2022 April Declines News headlines described the April returns of the S&P 500 as “the worst April returns in 30 years.” Although that may be correct, in the past 30 years, we have seen months with greater declines greater than April 2022. And let’s not...
by Gregory Prato | Apr 15, 2022 | Blog
Noise During the first week of April 2022, there were two headlines about the possibility of a future recession that made me think about the noise coming from the financial media. These types of headlines are eye catching and normally draw an emotional response but...
by Chris Conway - Prato Capital | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog
The stock market has been volatile so far this year. We have seen days with the major US averages closing with gains or declines of 2% several times already this year. With the headlines dominated by the Federal Reserve poised to raise interest rates, the highest...
