You can tell things are slowly returning to “normal” as demonstrated by tension rising between the U.S. and China over trade, while protests in Hong Kong return amid rhetoric out of China.

With earnings announcements all but wrapped up, investors returned to news about the pandemic and more broadly, the effect it is having on the economy.

This first week of May was a good one for the markets as the recent momentum carried forward.

Bet you didn’t know that April was the best month for the stock market in the past 33 years. You read that right.

The markets look to finish down a little this week giving back a small percentage of the recent gains.

This Sunday will mark the fourth week of quarantine in Ohio. It hasn’t been easy, but it does appear we are “flattening the curve.”

I’d like to say things turned a corner this week, but they did not. We are in a period that is commonly referred to as “finding a bottom.”

It was another whirlwind of a week in the markets. We anticipate this will continue to be the case until the number of confirmed coronavirus patients peak.

We were hopeful that today was going to be the day that we would experience two consecutive up days in the past six weeks. Unfortunately, that wasn’t meant to be.

You know how I said last week I had 31 pages of notes. This week I have even more.