T his Week from Jesse Hurst
Jesse W. Hurst, II
CFP® CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™
AIF ® ACCREDITED INVESTMENT FIDUCIARY
 
What's on Your Bucket List?


I am blessed to have so many clients that I enjoy spending time with. They share many deep and personal stories about what is happening with work, life and family. We take the responsibility of managing those relationships and aspirations extremely personally and seriously.

One of the things that happens on a very regular basis is clients sharing stories about trips and travels that they have taken utilizing the financial resources that we help manage for them. At least once a month, I come home and tell Rachel that we have a new trip or idea to add to our own personal bucket list based on something that one of YOU shared with me. Thank you for the inspirations and the stories.

It seems that one of the places that nearly every client agrees should be on their own bucket list is Italy. I have a number of clients each year that make Italy a destination for their travel plans. Rachel and I were blessed to travel to the Tuscany region with a group of friends four years ago. We were hoping for an opportunity to return again and see parts of the country that we had not seen before.

We were able to make that dream a reality this summer with a twelve-day trip to the northern and western parts of Italy. After flying into Rome, we stopped in Orvieto on our way to three days in Florence, which is one of the most beautiful cities we have ever been in. It is a place we will go back to, given the opportunity. From there we stopped in Lucca on our way to four full days in Cinque Terre, where we did a number of cooking classes. As many of you know, Rachel and I enjoy cooking together and take a few classes each year. From there, we were able to spend a few days in Milan, including one day touring Lake Como by boat.

It was our trip of a lifetime... this year. We had amazing tour guides and travel planners and we are more than happy to share names and numbers with all of you, our friends and clients that are considering a trip to Italy. I would like to thank the incredible team at Impel Wealth Management that made it possible for Rachel and I to take this trip, knowing that our clients were well cared for in our absence provides great peace of mind for me, and it should for you as well. Thank you for allowing us to share a little bit about our trip as we keep "Moving Life Forward".  Please continue to share your trips, travels and inspirations as they are meaningful to us.


Jesse
































Weekly Market Commentary
August 5, 2019
 

The Markets
 
Tariffs strike again.
 
The Federal Open Market Committee completed what it called 'a mid-cycle adjustment' with a quarter-point rate cut last week. Some investors were unhappy when Fed officials implied there would not be another reduction this year. They'd been hoping for at least one, reported Barron's.
 
Despite the disappointment, investors settled and U.S. stock markets rallied on Thursday.
 
Then, like a movie villain that just won't die, U.S. import taxes - a.k.a. tariffs - reared their ugly heads and wiped out the week's gains. Barron's explained:
 
"By midday on Thursday, the stock market had all but recouped its losses in the wake of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting the previous day. That's when President Donald Trump announced that he will impose a 10 percent levy on an additional $300 billion of Chinese goods on September 1. The shock sent stocks underwater and resulted in this year's worst week for the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite, which slid 3.1 percent and 3.92 percent, respectively. The Dow got off with just a 2.6 percent nick. For the broad U.S. stock market, the paper loss was about $1.1 trillion, according to Wilshire Associates."
 
Tariffs have pummeled U.S. and Chinese economies for months. Early estimates suggest imports from China to the United States fell by 12.6 percent from June 2018 to June 2019, while exports from the United States to China fell by 16.8 percent during the same period, according to a source cited by Barron's.
 
Bond investors were jolted by the tariff announcement, too. The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes dropped from 2.1 percent last week to 1.9 percent, reported MarketWatch. In Germany, all maturities of government bonds are offering negative yields.
 
In the face-off between rate cuts and tariffs, tariffs may prove to have a greater impact.


Data as of 8/2/19
1-Week
Y-T-D
1-Year
3-Year
5-Year
10-Year
Standard & Poor's 500 (Domestic Stocks)
-3.1%
17.0%
3.7%
10.8%
8.6%
11.3%
Dow Jones Global ex-U.S.
-3.0
7.7
-5.9
3.9
-0.4
2.8
10-year Treasury Note (Yield Only)
1.9
NA
3.0
1.5
2.5
3.6
Gold (per ounce)
1.5
12.5
18.6
1.9
2.2
4.2
Bloomberg Commodity Index
-1.9
0.7
-8.6
-2.3
-9.6
-5.2
S&P 500, Dow Jones Global ex-US, Gold, Bloomberg Commodity Index returns exclude reinvested dividends (gold does not pay a dividend) and the three-, five-, and 10-year returns are annualized; the DJ Equity All REIT Total Return Index does include reinvested dividends and the three-, five-, and 10-year returns are annualized; and the 10-year Treasury Note is simply the yield at the close of the day on each of the historical time periods.
Sources: Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, djindexes.com, London Bullion Market Association.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Indices are unmanaged and cannot be invested into directly. N/A means not applicable.

Does flying trigger your lizard brain?
Flight attendants and frequent fliers have some crazy stories to tell. Lets Fly Cheaper, Business Insider, and Point Me To The Plane reported on some of the strange things flight attendants have experienced, including:
 
  • Medicated sleep zombies. Passengers sometimes take sleep aids to slumber while flying. In one instance, a passenger sleep-streaked to first class.
  • Emotional support animals (ESAs). In an effort to remain calm while flying, some people bring pets for emotional support. These have included a turkey, a pig, a monkey, and a kangaroo.
  • Impatient passengers. In 2014, a passenger deployed the emergency slide because he wanted to disembark more quickly.
  • Strange requests. Flight attendants report passengers have asked how to roll down plane windows, if they could stop at the Sky Mall, and whether they could borrow a screwdriver to take a seat apart.
 
A flight attendant told NPR, "When people get on a plane, they revert to a lizard brain where they forget all social decencies and common sense...Flying takes away everybody's sense of control. So people tend to grasp at whatever kind of control they can have..."
 
There may be a scientific explanation for passengers' odd plane behavior. NPR reported that low air pressure reduces the oxygen in passengers' blood, making them more emotional and more prone to poor decision-making.


Weekly Focus - Think About It

"The lizard brain is not merely a concept. It's real, and it's living on the top of your spine, fighting for your survival. But, of course, survival and success are not the same thing."
                                                                                                     --Seth Godin, American author



Best regards, 
 
Jesse Hurst CFP ®, AIF®
Investment Advisor Representative
 
Impel Wealth Management 
 
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