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On The Markets

Understanding the stock market and economy probably wasn’t on your bucket list when you were a kid, when you graduated high school or even today 😂. And yet there it is, day after day, looming in the background and affecting real life events for you and your family, good and bad. Why’d it go up? When’s it going down? Wait, is “the market” actually much bigger than just 500 US stocks? It’s complicated. And they make it complicated on purpose! On The Markets gives context to complexity. A stock

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75:32

Tariffs: A Bumpy Road

On The Markets ·

2025/04/04

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 Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® to look at: 0:00 S&P live look-in at

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56:00

Tariffs: On Again, Off Again

On The Markets ·

2025/03/28

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 Dano Weir joins Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® to look at: 0:00 Nvidia

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35:42

Its All About The FED....Still

On The Markets ·

2025/03/24

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 and your portfolio.• Despite alleged "chainsaws" from DOGE, Federal spending is up from last year? A look

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52:01

Diversification is King

On The Markets ·

2025/03/15

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 look at:Notable declines in US stocks understandably might have you wanting out altogether. We've got

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64:59

Kangaroo Market

On The Markets ·

2025/03/07

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 Chris Sipes CFP® and Daren Blonski CFP® to look at:• Why despite ups and down in the S&P 500, Daren

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53:43

Did A BEAR Just Walk In?

On The Markets ·

2025/02/28

A mostly down week for the S&P that burst back up in the wee moments of Friday? What's Trump really up to with his proposed cuts? On this week's episode of our stock market show, On The Markets, SWA Marketing Director Dano Weir (sitting in for Daren) and Chris Sipes CFP® examine:• The confounding result of Nvidia posting solid earnings yet saw a down week. Proof you can never make a call with certainty? Does this signal a bear market?• Debate over whether President Trump will be using the

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46:14

Great Expectations

On The Markets ·

2025/02/21

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 believe that in the history of the S&P 500, it's had a positive return only half the time? Are we

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39:46

Inflation Crashes the Party...Sorta

On The Markets ·

2025/02/14

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, and how an investor might look at these developments.• Consumer Price Index stats (i.e. inflation

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53:12

Tariffs and Not Overreacting

On The Markets ·

2025/02/08

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 so good for Fed Rates and market returns. • Daren with document proof direct from the Fed taking

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50:38

AI_s Sputnik Moment FINAL

On The Markets ·

2025/02/01

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 in a trade war based on their exports to the countries on the tariff list.• How the S&P and key

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27:52

Uncertainty is Certain

On The Markets ·

2025/01/25

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 this week was actually a good thing, for now• The 3 stocks who are bigger on their own than the entire energy

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40:55

Changes Ahead

On The Markets ·

2025/01/18

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 launch his own crypto coin $TRUMP? • The impact of new Consumer Price Index numbers this week on bond rates,

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50:12

Interest Rates

On The Markets ·

2025/01/10

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 concentration. • Why stock ownership as percentage of overall household wealth is at an all time high. •

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53:05

Looking Into The S&P Crystal Ball

On The Markets ·

2025/01/04

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% this time last year. Why measuring the S&P weighted and equally shows the last two market years look

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52:07

Santa Claus Rally

On The Markets ·

2024/12/27

Chris and Daren have been running their own "Santa Tracker" this month, to see if St. Nick stopped by Wall Street with his usual bag of gifts. The guys break down a few stocking stuffers the market received, plus: A look at continued market concentration, and what that means in the context of market history. A full circle moment as the yield curve finally finally reinverts. Why prior reinversions have been followed by a recession. Disposable income's relation to inflation and how that might change

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58:48

The Grinch Stole Christmas

On The Markets ·

2024/12/20

The Federal Reserve had a meeting this week and cut rates 1/4 point, but also indicated next year might only see 2 rate cuts instead of 4. The latter of these two points seems to have upset Wall St., and Chris "No Malls" Sipes and Daren "Loves Cinnabon" Blonski look at how... The tone of Fed Chairmen Powell's tone alone during the meeting sent the market down almost immediately. An interesting visualization of how what the Fed "says" they're going to do and what they actually end up doing are not

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52:01

Bears

On The Markets ·

2024/12/13

All the pundits and "experts" are feeling rosy about the markets prospects for 2025, yet SWA Principals Chris "Mulder" Sipes and Daren "Scully" Blonski think the yield curve may be telling a different story. A rousing discussion of the UFOs that have been reported over New Jersey this week. Perspective on why people are "lever-blind" when it comes to real estate, but they would never do the same in the stock market. The yield curve finally almost reinverts after years of confounding inversion. In

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48:32

Who Let the Bulls Out?

On The Markets ·

2024/12/06

Sentiment in the investing world is starting to feel almost resoundingly "bullish", meaning the market it going to continue up and up. But Chris "Batman" Sipes and Daren "Spiderman" Blonski drop a timely quote this week: "When all the experts agree, something else tends to happen": Daren's #1 message on every client call he takes right now: "You cannot underestimate the power of the amount of money that has been printed in the last 5 years." A look at new Jobs report data and increased chances of

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41:25

Something About That Turkey!

On The Markets ·

2024/11/30

The concentrated stock market continued to rise this week, albeit in a somewhat quieter holiday week. SWA Principals Daren "Wishes Turkey Was Steak" Blonski and Chris "No Seafood" Sipes and take a look at the end of November and beyond: Why the deal on a stock is made at the buy, and why right now those deals might be outside the US, maybe in Europe. New homes made up 26% of the available inventory in the US this year, nearly double the usual rate. What that could mean for real estate moving into

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49:25

Markets Find Support

On The Markets ·

2024/11/23

After up and down weeks following the election, the market found a foothold this week. Chris "Buckeye" Sipes and Daren "Capital B Bitcoin" Blonski look at... Daren takes a victory lap as Bitcoin nears $100,000 in value. Bitcoin is now the 9th largest asset classes in the world, and worth more than the Great Britain Pound. What the cost of owning a home right now vs. renting could be telling us about the future of the economy and the market. Why the history of market concentration (lots of value

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