Trade Talks Back in the News
Week in Review U.S. Markets U.S. stocks finished the week with gains despite significant volatility intraweek, mostly triggered by trade headlines. Early in the week concerns about [...]
Weekly Macro Research: September 10 , 2018
Market Recap and Observations U.S. Markets U.S. stocks retreated from last week’s record highs in the holiday-shortened week, with global markets still on edge amid escalating global [...]
Weekly Macro Research: August 27, 2018
Market Recap and Observations U.S. Markets U.S. stocks posted gains for the week, led higher by technology and energy shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 121 [...]
Is Social Security Actually Running Out of Money?
Recent reports that the Social Security trust fund will pay out more than it takes in—for the [...]
Weekly Macro Research: August 20, 2018
Market Recap and Observations U.S. Markets Most of the major U.S. indexes closed higher for the week [...]
Weekly Macro Research: August 13, 2018
Market Recap and Observations U.S. Markets *as of 8/11/18 The major benchmarks ended the week mixed after [...]
Implications of Rising Stock Buybacks
Stock Valuations With debate raging as to whether the nine-year bull market is coming to an end [...]
Weekly Macro Research: August 6, 2018
Market Recap and Observations U.S. Markets The broader U.S. stock market indexes were generally up for the [...]
Is the Flattening Yield Curve Forecasting a Recession?
Yield Curve is Making Investors Nervous Suddenly everyone is talking about the yield curve: Barron’s, Bloomberg, CNBC [...]