Summing Up The Week The markets spent the early part of the week digesting Moody’s credit rating downgrade of United States debt and a bad Treasury auction. It seemed as though investors had gotten used to the status quo on Thursday until President Donald Trump...
Summing Up The Week There’s no sense in bearing the lead – the announced progress in the U.S.-China trade talks drove the markets significantly higher this week when the two countries announced a 90-day tariff pause on Monday. This sent the S&P 500 up...
Summing Up The Week The stock market swayed with every news story revolving around trade deals this week with stocks and Bitcoin rising and falling at the whims of President Donald Trump. The Federal Reserve announced no change to the benchmark interest rate which...
Summing Up The Week This week proved that the labor market remains strong in the U.S. despite a contracting economy. Inflation also appeared in March to slow which kept calls for stagflation at bay, for now. Unfortunately, the lagging data still hasn’t revealed...
Summing Up The Week Even in the throes of earnings season with economic datapoints released nearly daily, the movement of the markets has been dominated by comments from the Trump administration, China, and talk of tariffs and the the ongoing Trade War. On Monday, the...