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Danville, Ca. April 30, 2025
The Market Monthly April 2025
John is happy to announce his podcast, The Market Monthly. This podcast is a review of global stock market highlights over past month and a preview of month ahead. Forward insights and perspectives are based on current financial market and economic trends with an emphasis on relevant developments in various areas from Fed policy to company earnings announcements. We hope you enjoy John’s podcast.
This month’s The Market Monthly podcast reviews the market’s highlights of April and offers insights into the market for May. Look for The Market Monthly each month at Buzzsprout.
It’s May!
April was the wildest month in the U.S. stock market since March of 2020. Kicking off with “Liberation Day”, stock market action in April was overwhelmed with seemingly daily tariff news. As investors were without clarity, they lost confidence. As investor sentiment plunged, trade war uncertainty sparked a spike in volatility. In the end, the stock market did what it historically does – it climbed the wall of worry. After falling about 15% in the month, the Nasdaq index climbed all the way back up to close with a small gain in April. Now in May, investors might here the echo of the old Wall Street adage, “Sell in May and go away.” While May is known as the first of the WSM’s (Worst Six Months), May has averaged over 1.5% in the SP 500 since 1950 in post-election years.
Tune in to John Gardner’s Market Monthly podcast for his highlights and insights for the market action in the month just passed and the one ahead. John brings his 40 years of stock market experience to you in his podcast.
As John likes to say, “Proper portfolio planning produces positive performance.”
Listen now.
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