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Tariffs, Turbulence, and the Power of Diversification
As expected, investment markets around the world responded to yesterday’s announcement by President Trump that new tariffs would be levied against all products imported into the US. The reactions across equity markets have largely been negative as investors and others...
Tariffs, Turbulence, and the Power of Diversification
As expected, investment markets around the world responded to yesterday’s announcement by President Trump that new tariffs would be levied against all products imported into the US. The reactions across equity markets have largely been negative as investors and others...
Market Commentary: A Matter of Perspective
“This world keeps spinning / And with each new day / I can feel a change in everything”“Well, it...
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June Market Commentary A Fragile Balance at the Mid-Point of the Year
May Recap and June Outlook May saw a return to more confidence in the economy and the markets. The Fed met early in the month, and Chairman Powell managed to curb market pessimism by stating that it was unlikely that the Fed’s next move would be a rate hike. The...
May Market Commentary: A New POV Takes Hold
April Recap and May Outlook April had it all, and most of it was not so great. Inflation is proving sticky again, which forced the market and the Fed to reassess the timing of interest rate cuts. Conflicts intensified in Ukraine and the Middle East, and in the U.S.,...
April Market Commentary: Navigating Rate Cut Anticipation and Economic Signals
March Recap and April Outlook Among the more interesting bits of Jerome Powell’s testimony to Congress last year was his admission that he’s been a Grateful Dead fan for 50 years. In his comments at the press conference after the March FOMC meeting, he affirmed that...
March Market Commentary Perspective on the Economy: Telescope, Microscope, or Kaleidoscope?
February Recap and March Outlook Depending on your focus, the story the recent economic data is telling may be different. But one point of view has been remarkably consistent this year: the market does not seem to care about any of it. February saw the S&P 500’s...
February Market Commentary Will A Booming Economy Stay Powell’s Hand?
January Recap and February Outlook As goes January, so goes the year. That old stock market canard has a double-edged meaning this year, as the stock market as measured by the S&P came in strongly positive. But the path to getting there included dashed...
January Market Commentary Is Rate Relief In Sight?
The drama around the timing of the Federal Reserve’s first cuts to the key short-term interest rate continued in last few weeks of the old year and into the first week of the new year. Two months of slowing labor market data, coupled with a change to the wording in...
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