Market Insights – Week Ahead: July 22, 2024
After the first debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the equity market began to price in a win for Trump. This trade got a bump after…
After the first debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the equity market began to price in a win for Trump. This trade got a bump after…
The U.S. economy expanded at a 1.4% annual pace from January through March, the slowest quarterly growth since spring 2022. The first quarter's GDP growth marked a sharp pullback from…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the elephant in the room that everyone DOES want to talk about. And they should… because it’s still a challenge for investors to get their heads…
Consumer spending slowed in the first quarter, bringing U.S. GDP growth down to a 1.3% annual rate. The number matched forecasts and is down from the advance estimate of 1.6%.…
Historically, April has proven to be a down month, so the 5% correction the market experienced during the month is not out of line. (We typically see 5% corrections three…
The nation's economic growth slowed to an annualized rate of 1.6%. A surge in imports, which are subtracted from GDP, reduced first-quarter growth by nearly 1 percentage point. Growth was…
After a particularly strong first quarter, the equity market is already in a correction, in our view. We continue to believe the S&P 500 can reach 5600-5800, for an additional…
Gross domestic product increased at a 3.4% annualized rate last quarter, revised up from the previously reported 3.2% pace, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said in its third…
Many industries that are lagging the S&P 500 in performance are rallying, a sign that the rally is broadening out. The rally is taking place not only in the U.S.,…
U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter was revised slightly lower to a 3.2% annualized rate, but its was not all bad news as growth was wider spread than expected,…
The U.S. still dominates world indices, but when we compare the S&P 500 to the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI), the S&P had a significant breakout in 2015 from…
The U.S. economy grew faster than expected in the fourth quarter, amid strong consumer spending, with growth for the full year coming in at 2.5%. The Commerce Department's advance fourth-quarter…
The year began by digesting short-term overbought conditions in both equities and Treasuries after a sharp rally in those markets that ran for 2½ months. We believe any corrections provide…
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) projects U.S. economic growth will slow to 1.5% in 2024, with the unemployment rate seen rising to 4.4% from what it estimates will be…
The U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 5.2% in Q3 as businesses built more warehouses and accumulated equipment. However, momentum appears to have since waned as higher borrowing…