Tag Archives: global markets
Last Week’s Markets in Review: Jobs and Inflation to Dominate August
08-08-2022The 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
Read MoreLast Week’s Markets in Review: GDP Falls Again in Q2, Signaling a Recession
08-01-2022The last week of July proved pivotal to the domestic economy with a large amount of economic data releases (including macro and micro information) and a substantial rate hike by the Federal Reserve following their most recent Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting ... Read More
Read MoreLast Week’s Markets in Review: Earnings Relatively Strong in the Face of a Recession
07-25-2022As of the time of this writing, second-quarter earnings season has been in full swing. Among the stocks that represent the S&P 500 index, there have been 104 companies that have reported their Q2 earnings thus far, approximately 20% of the index ... Read More
Read MoreLast Week’s Markets in Review: Inflation and Recession Risks Update
07-18-2022Last week, several important data points for the month of June were released that may influence future monetary policy and the timing and duration of the near-certain recessionary period that lies ahead for the U.S. economy ... Read More
Read MoreLast Week’s Markets in Review: What a Recession Could Mean for the Stock Market
07-11-2022At this point in 2022, there is no denying the pressure and attention that market participants have placed on the U.S., and global economy for that matter, of a potential recession ... Read More
Read MoreLast Week’s Markets in Review: Inflation and Recession Dominate Investor’s Thoughts
07-05-2022The first half of the year has been dominated by great uncertainty, and persistent volatility as record-setting inflation levels have slowed economic growth and turned the Federal Reserve more hawkish ... Read More
Read MoreLast Week’s Markets in Review: Municipal Bonds in a Rising Rate Environment
06-27-2022We look at municipal bond buying opportunities in a rising rate environment ... Read More
Read MoreLast Week’s Markets in Review: Fed Becomes More Aggressive Despite Slowing Economy
06-21-2022We look at how the Fed has become more aggressive despite a slowing economy ... Read More
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