Category Archives: Market Update

Taxes, Inflation, and Skittish Markets

Last week saw continued retractions in U.S. Equities and fixed income, with hotter-than-expected inflation curtailing market rate cut expectations. Gold and silver were left as winners, as inflationary pressures, in […]

Strong Employment Drives Weak Markets

The second quarter got off to a rocky start, and it was broadly brought on by good economic news. A hot jobs report paired with strong manufacturing fanned more hawkish-than-expected […]

Q1 “In The Books”

The end of the first quarter (Q1) brought news of back-to-back ‘winning’ quarters in equity markets, highlighted by the S&P up 10.26% and Russell 2000 up 4.81%. The quarter also […]

Letting Off Some Steam

The financial landscape of the past week presented a mixed bag for investors, with smaller companies facing notable challenges and their larger counterparts managing to hold steady. The predominant theme […]

Primaries and Planning

Last week brought us Super Tuesday (the day when the greatest number of US states hold their primary elections) and the State of the Union Address. Super Tuesday saw Former […]

Leaps and Bounds

Last week saw an abbreviate trading window and markets riding a rollercoaster of volatility surrounding the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI). When the results came in, tailwinds blew strong and […]

New Thresholds and Repeat Champs

Last week, the S&P500 finish above 5000 for the first time. This threshold is important for a few reasons, not the least of which is the significant physiological boundary—5000—that was […]

Foggy Starts, Razor-Sharp Finishes

Last week brought on a fog that covered more of the United States than at any time in the last twenty years. The outside weather mirrored the markets with a […]

Empire State of Mind?

It was a shortened trading week last week, as markets observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It was an even shorter work week for many, as Mother Nature dished out […]

Red Sea; Troubled Waters

U.S. Equities were mostly flat, last week, as tensions in the Middle East and the launch of several spot Bitcoin ETFs dominated headlines.  As “bad news” was often “good news” […]