Category: Markets

New year, new me – as the saying goes. But this is not the case for markets. It seems the same narratives of inflation and the Fed’s relentlessness to raise rates are carrying over to the new year. It seems like nothing has worked over the last year and everything is in a free fall.…

There’s no doubt the start of this decade has been one of the most challenging environments for markets and businesses to navigate. In the last two years we’ve seen a global pandemic that triggered a myriad of supply chain issues and unprecedented monetary accommodations from central banks around the world that resulted in the highest…

Friday is job day, when the unemployment number gets printed. A tick down in unemployment should give investors more of a reason to buy some stock tomorrow. Economists expect the US Economy to add 200,000 jobs. Let’s see what happens tomorrow!

The bond market is in a weird place this year. Risk-off behavior in financial markets has been all out of whack this year. Typically, when equity prices fall, yields fall due to investors fleeing to safer assets, such as bonds. The price and yield of a bond have an inverse relationship. Despite drawdowns in equity…

Markets took a breather this week after coming off strong gains the previous week. The Dow (DJI) was the only major index that eked out a small gain of 0.12% while the S&P 500 (SPX), NASDAQ 100 (NDX), and the IWM – which is an Exchange Traded Fund(ETF) that tracks the Russell 2000 small cap…

The S&P 500 shot up after the 8:30am Producer Prices Index Report coming in less than expected. The report came in at 0.2% vs. 0.4% expected, welcoming risk off behavior due to peak inflation. The gains after the report held steadily above 1% until a report from the Associated Press (AP) came out revealing Poland…