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The Markets Investor optimism is quite low. In just two weeks, the war in Ukraine has changed the status of 1.3 million people –...

The Markets The world is adapting to a changing reality. As the war in Ukraine intensified last week, financial markets grappled with...

The Markets Last week, Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision ignited the biggest military conflict in...

The Markets Investors’ appetite for risk diminished as the Russian threat to Ukraine intensified. Volatility was high last week as...

The Markets Why did stock markets in the United States finish the week lower? If this were Jeopardy, acceptable answers to that question...

The Markets A rosy view through the rearview mirror. To say that economists did not have great expectations for the January employment...

The Markets Last week, the January stock market decline was interrupted by a Friday afternoon rally. “The S&P 500 rose 2.4 percent, its...

The Markets When is a barometer not a barometer? It’s widely recognized that people do not make perfect financial decisions. In fact,...

The Markets Is the economy doing well, or not? If you skimmed the headlines last week, you may have seen that retail sales – the...

The Markets Here’s a little story about a group called the Fed… In the 1950’s, then Fed Chair William McChesney Martin described the...

The Markets 2021 was a fizzing mints-in-soda kind of year. Everything seemed to shoot higher – from COVID-19 cases and vaccinations to...

The Markets Investors were feeling bullish. Last week, the Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) Index closed at a record high for the 68th...

The Markets Stock and bond markets diverged. Last week, the Bank of England surprised markets with a rate hike, its first in three years,...

The Markets Inflation met expectations. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) last week, it showed...

The Markets Investors look to the future. Last week, employment and manufacturing data confirmed that the United States economy continued...

The Markets COVID-19 strikes again. Coronavirus cases have been on the rise in Europe, climbing from about 700,000 new cases a week in...

The Markets Thinking about the possibilities. The Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index finished last week slightly higher and has gained...

The Markets Economists like to joke that inflation is just right when no one notices it. Last week, investors noticed it. The Consumer...

The Markets Feeling bullish… Investor bullishness ticked higher last week on all four investor sentiment gauges tracked by Barron’s....

The Markets The road to recovery is slow and bumpy. Last week, we learned that economic growth slowed in the third quarter as a new wave...