February 23, 2022
The Markets Investors’ appetite for risk diminished as the Russian threat to Ukraine intensified. Volatility was high last week as investors guessed and second-guessed how markets […]
February 15, 2022
The Markets Why did stock markets in the United States finish the week lower? If this were Jeopardy, acceptable answers to that question might include: Rising […]
February 3, 2022
The Markets Last week, the January stock market decline was interrupted by a Friday afternoon rally. “The S&P 500 rose 2.4 percent, its biggest one-day jump […]
January 25, 2022
The Markets When is a barometer not a barometer? It’s widely recognized that people do not make perfect financial decisions. In fact, many investors rely on […]
January 19, 2022
The Markets Is the economy doing well, or not? If you skimmed the headlines last week, you may have seen that retail sales – the purchases […]
January 11, 2022
The Markets Here’s a little story about a group called the Fed… In the 1950’s, then Fed Chair William McChesney Martin described the Federal Reserve as […]
January 4, 2022
The Markets 2021 was a fizzing mints-in-soda kind of year. Everything seemed to shoot higher – from COVID-19 cases and vaccinations to economic growth and global […]
December 28, 2021
The Markets Investors were feeling bullish. Last week, the Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) Index closed at a record high for the 68th time this […]
The Markets – March 1, 2022