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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Fed Stays Aggressive and Markets Tumble

The greatly anticipated Federal Reserve meeting for September occurred this past week. Regular readers of prior Capital Markets Updates are very aware that we have been focused on monetary policy ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Economic Data Fuels Interest Rate Debates

Anticipation was high for a volatile week, but what transpired went beyond what many expected. Getting right to the point, here is a recap of what took place last week ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Interest Rates Outlook Drives Gains in Stocks

During the shortened trading week after Labor Day, domestic equity markets broke a three-week negative trend and finished the week with positive gains ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Soaring Yields and Recession Risk in Focus

September kicked off dramatically, with markets continuing their downward spiral from the prior month in early trading before making a late reversal into positive territory and yields on the short end of the curve generating an even greater inversion. As we have written before, the yield curve in the U.S. has inverted before each recession since 1955, with a recession following the inversion somewhere between six and 24 months, on average, according to a 2018 report by researchers at the San Francisco Federal Reserve ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Fed Focuses on Inflation at Jackson Hole

Global equity markets finished lower for the week. In the U.S., the S&P 500 Index closed the week at a level of 4,058, representing a loss of 4.02%, while the Russell Midcap Index moved 3.32% lower last week ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: How much Higher will Rates Rise in 2022?

The most important economic data releases last week were concentrated on Wednesday. Market participants were focused on both July retail sales totals and the July Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Has Inflation Peaked?

Our first look at inflation in the month of July came on Wednesday with the release of the Consumer Price Index. The Consumer Price index rose 8.5% from the prior July. This annual increase was 0.2% below the 8.7% increase that economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Jobs and Inflation to Dominate August

The Federal Reserve will be on break until September 21st, keeping interest rate movements at bay for the time being, and major quarterly data drops being nearly three months away should make for a relatively quiet August ... Read More

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