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Last Week’s Market in Review: Debt Ceiling Can’t Hold Down Markets

For weeks the market has been overwhelmingly concerned with the U.S. debt ceiling, and rightfully so. A failure to raise the ceiling promptly would result in the U.S. Treasury being unable to meet its obligations on time and default on its debt ... Read More

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Last Week’s Market in Review: What Comes After the 10th Fed Rate Hike?

In the week following the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) tenth consecutive interest rate hike, market participants were interested in several economic reports that were used to gauge the effect that higher interest rates were having on the overall economy's performance ... Read More

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Last Week’s Market in Review:Taking a Hike with the Fed

Let's go on a hike – pun intended. As we begin our journey, we know there may be some difficulty. The path ahead is unknown, but we know that the only way we can achieve our goal is to hike up to the top of the mountain ... Read More

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Last Week’s Market in Review: Q1 GDP and Earnings Suggest a Potential Soft Landing

During the past week, market participants were focused on the release of the First Quarter 2023 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) release on Thursday and the ongoing reporting of first quarter corporate earnings. Like all data throughout this year, this data is then factored into trying to predict the next potential policy moves from the Federal Reserve. We will remind readers that the FOMC will announce the results of its policy meeting this upcoming Wednesday, May 3rd ... Read More

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Last Week’s Market in Review: What to Make of Q1 Earnings and Economic Activity

After being positive in 4 of the previous five weeks, the market would ultimately close in the red during a week heavily focused on the early stages of corporate earnings season ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Fed Watching and the State of Inflation

During this intense "Fed Watching" period, every release of economic data is instantly evaluated as either inflationary or non-inflationary. Once the effect of inflation is determined, the data is factored into predicting future monetary policy ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Will Jobs Data Influence the Fed?

The topic for the Holiday shortened week that just passed was the jobs market. Investors digested four reports on the current status of the domestic employment environment. The JOLTS report led off the week on Tuesday ... Read More

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Last Week’s Markets in Review: Inflation Deceleration

Just over a week after the Federal Reserve decided to increase the Federal Funds Target Rate by 0.25%, economic data showed a deceleration in the Fed's key inflation measuring tool, Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) ... Read More

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