Week in Review #339

Week in Review #339

Summing Up The Week Inflation delaying the next Federal Reserve interest rate cut was the drumbeat of the news this week with both the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation gauges coming in hotter than expected. Federal Reserve Chairman...
Week in Review #338

Week in Review #338

Summing Up The Week It only took a few weeks for stock market participants to remember President Donald Trump’s “amazing” negotiation tactics from his first term. Initially, stocks sold off Monday morning on the back of Trump threatening massive...
Week in Review #337

Week in Review #337

Summing Up The Week As if the week didn’t have enough ahead of it with all of the earnings reports and the Fed Meeting, a little-known Chinese startup called DeepSeek kicked off the week by terrifying the entire market. DeepSeek made everyone think China had...
Week in Review #335

Week in Review #335

Summing Up The Week While the Federal Reserve prefers to look at the Personal Core Expenditures (PCE) index as a gauge of inflation, the rest of the market also pays attention to the Producer Price Index (PPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) with the latter taking more...
Week in Review #334

Week in Review #334

Summing Up The Week A series of datapoints that could indicate inflation is returning combined with the unexpected shortened trading week out of respect for the passing of President Jimmy Carter did nothing to help with the market’s newfound volatility....