On The Markets

"We never had a recession" these past 3 years but...we're looking at a bounceback anyway and it might be in the shape of a "K".  What that means for you and your portfolio now, On The Markets.  Join Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir this week to find out:  Why your experience of the economy might now might be if you got your...

Conflict in the Middle East, oil on the rise, gold’s up too.  Sadly, that could be a sentence accurately used in many different decades through time, and this week those all took center stage once again.  We take a look at their impact on the market at large this week as we go On The Markets.  Join Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dan...

Our show On The Markets is a market show but...hard to ignore the biggest headline this week, so we thought we’d have a little fun.  Please enjoy our new episode- How To Lose A Guy In 10 Months.  “If you aren’t laughin you aren’t livin” sounds like something Matthew McConaughey might say, and with that in mind we tried for some humor on the “breakup” this week of Elon Musk and President Trump.  Th...

We got a tariff backdown and a new slang term this week.  Join Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir and learn what the new definition of a “TACO” is as they go On The Markets...  There's a graph with a huge spike in it, spoiler it’s a social security chart New gulf to talk about in the housing market – is consumer stress forcing...

The kids say T-I-L, “today I learned”, that the word terrific meant “frightening” .  It’s current and past meanings seemed to sum up the duality of the current tariff situation, so credit to Daren Blonski for coining the phrase TAR-RI-FIC for today’s episode of On The Markets.  This week, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir look at:  Trump made new...

Tariffs?  Recessions?  Bonds, Stocks and Gold down in April?  The Honey Badger Market don’t care 😂😂.  If you’ve not heard of the honey badger joke on the internet, we’ll let you discover it yourself, but it’s the 2010s way of saying something does whatever it wants, regardless of outside factors. Let’s decipher that in our YouTube show, On The Market.  This week, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal...

Life in the market can feel like a game show sometimes 😂🙃 And so far here in the 2nd Quarter of 2025, there’s really only been one question- Deal Or No Deal? Is that it? Does the *entire* stock and *entire* bond market hinge on whether the US and China make a new trade deal? Sure can feel that way, but Daren and Chris’ answer might surprise you. Let’s go On The Market. Sonoma Wealth Managing Pri...

And just like that...it’s like April never even happened in the market.  And yet, have there been lurking signs for months (years?) that an economic slowdown has been slowly piling kindling, just to finally be lit by tariffs?  Let’s go On The Market.  Prepare your ears to hear this, but the S & P 500 has recovered nearly all of it’s dip from early April.  So back to all time highs?  Maybe.  Bu...

Q2's market turbulence seemed to find footing this week, as the S&P had a nice bounce to end the week.  Let's go  On The Markets  with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir to look at:    • While the S&P 500 is seeing a nice recovery in light of the tariff pause, Daren thinks he knows the exact spot where a downturn may pop up next.  • Trying...

Perhaps a calmer week in the S&P 500 as the Tariff Pause hits week 2.  While parties on both sides can argue their narrative, as we go On The Markets, with Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir, Chris Sipes CFP® and Daren Blonski CFP® dig into what the data is really saying about tariffs and the economy:  • What top business leaders actually expect will happen to their pr...

Daren Blonski is on assignment this week, so Marketing Director Dano Weir and SWA Managing Principal Chris Sipes CFP®, put their heads together and look at:   0:00 Intro  2:11 Orange Swan Event  3:41 Salt Trae  4:30 Sentiment in the toiler  7:29 What would tariffs even make if they went into effect?  13:56 Bear Market trends all the way back to 1800  17:03 Volatility index saying S&P could sur...

News headlines would have you believing the sky is falling-  but what does the data say?  Setting aside a political conversation whether any of this should be happening, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski and Chris Sipes dig in to what the effect on the market has been and if further changes are imminent on a special episode of On The Markets .Together with Sonoma Wealth Marketing Dir...

Whether you checked headlines constantly or chose to put the phone on airplane mode for the entire week, it was hard to escape news of tariffs and the impact their uncertainty had on the market.  People hire advisors for just these moments- to talk you through what's happening, so let's go On The Markets.  This week On The Markets Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir joins M...

Happy End Of Q1! (...what, you don't measure life in fiscal quarters?)😂 Alright SO the US is definitely doing TARIFFS and, oh, well they won't be that much, actually they WILL be even more, but maybe not depending on, well actually now we've set a deadline and....that's about how the last few weeks have been haven't they? This week On The Markets Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host...

The Federal Reserve and their Fed Funds Interest Rate has perhaps more power over markets around the world than, well anything. This week  On The Markets  Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir and Daren Blonski CFP® to look at: • How all eyes remain fixed on Treasury Secretary Bessent's goal to get the 10 Year Treasury rate down, and what impact that could have on the market...

No two ways about it- this week was about tariffs in the market.  But what felt like an inevitable decline in the S&P found a nice bounce on Friday.  Daren actually sees even more optimism than that, so let's go On The Markets... This week on our YouTube show On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® are joined by Marketing Director Dano Weir to...

The stock market "zoo" is usually a Bull (markets headed up) or a Bear (markets headed down).  But a lesser-discussed marsupial came to play on Wall St. this week...a KANGAROO Market, which is a market that is bouncing up and down and up and down like a....kangaroo.  Thanks to absolutely zero popular demand, Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir joined On The Market mainstays...

SWA Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir guest hosts this week with Chris Sipes CFP® to look at: • Why consumer sentiment and market performance are completely dipolar this week. • Would you believe that the Federal government spent more during Covid than either World War? A look at the downhill effect that had on the inflation we're feeling now. • Speaking of history, would you also beli...

On this week's episode of our stock market show, On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski and Chris Sipes examine: • Why you may want Europe in your portfolio right now. Off to their best start this year since 2000, why they may be the beneficiary from a potential US trade war. • A frank discussion on the 'bombastic' approach of announcements from the current administration,...

This week, our firm co-founders Chris Sipes CFP® and Daren Blonski CFP® look at: • Why the states that voted Red in the 2024 election may have the most at stake in a trade war based on their exports to the countries on the tariff list. • How the S&P and key investments performed in wake of the tariff announcements and pauses. •The downstream impact of good news in the job market is perhaps not...

Before you hit the chips and dip this weekend 🏈🏟️, we're taking a look at how the 24 Hour Trade War of 2025 (so far) hit the market, another great week for gold and Daren makes a huge call for the bond market. Let's go...On The Markets. This week, our firm co-founders Chris Sipes CFP® and Daren Blonski CFP® look at: • Why the states that voted Red in the 2024 election may have the most at stake i...

Chris Sipes CFP® is travelling for work this week, so Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski CFP® goes solo On The Markets , looking at: •Why the yield curve reinversion could mean we are possibly maybe definitely heading into a recession, soon, potentially. • A look ahead to next week's Fed meeting and why Wall St. does not expect a rate cut. • Why a drop in the value of the US Dollar thi...

A new year, an incoming administration and concerns about just what will the world's reserve currency of the future be? Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® translate how it's playing out in the market this week:  • A look at Bitcoin once again passing $100k in value, why the US may soon have a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and...did President-elect Trump just laun...

 Our firm's Managing Princiapls Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® break down the confounding interest rate environment on this week's episode of our show On The Markets :  • If you owned the top 5 best performing S&P stocks in 1999 before the Dot Com Bubble burst and held those positions for a decade, only ONE outperformed CASH.  What that fact may be telling us about current market conc...

Daren Blonski CFP® sadly caught the bug that's been going around this winter, but he's on the mend and will return next week!  Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir sits in with Chris Sipes CFP® for a look at what historical data may be telling us the S&P is going to do this year, including:  A stunning look at how every "expert" analyst missed the S&P mark by 14-30%...