
DOUGHERTY DISPATCH: FIRST HALF 2025 REVIEW
What a year! And we’re only halfway through. In this mid-year dispatch, we are expanding our report to include a summary status of many of the holdings our clients have.

What a year! And we’re only halfway through. In this mid-year dispatch, we are expanding our report to include a summary status of many of the holdings our clients have.

It’s just been a few weeks since our last dispatch, but these times of turmoil call for a quick update on the financial markets, given gyrating ups and downs and

President Trump’s Liberation Day on April 2nd was not very liberating for investors. On April 3rd, the S&P stock index dropped a whopping 5% and today another 5%. Tech stocks

We know several people that suffer from FOMO. The disease comes with high anxiety, restlessness, and it occurs mostly in men. No, we’re not talking about a strange new virus.

Well not quite. Stocks climbed 6.2% in January – second best January since 1990 – as a result of good inflation and Fed news, but then declined 2.6% in February,

Good Riddance to 2022 ! The number 2022 has three twos in it, but you might think that with what happened last year it had the curse of three sixes.