June 17, 2019
After a bruising May, the first half of June brought good news to investors as equity prices climbed backtoward their early May highs. Hints from the Federal Reserve that interest rate reductions may be in place as soon as July cheered markets in the US and deflated recession expectations among the pundit class.
Topics: Economy, stocks, interest rates, trade war, oil
Topics: Economics, stocks, bonds, tariffs, markets, interest rates, trade
The past two weeks have not been kind to worldwide equity investors. After the most recent peak for broad domestic equity indexes at the beginning of May, prices have trended generally lower dragging International indexes lower as well. Trade tensions, including newly announced Mexico specific tariff threats, and worries about the health of the US economy have combined to unsettle equity markets. The chart below details the DJTMI over the past 12 months.
Topics: Investments, Economy, interest rates, trade war, trade
First Quarter Market Comment
April 8, 2019
After a disappointing final quarter of 2018, global equity prices extended their post-Christmas
rally and posted very strong gains in the first quarter of 2019. Broad domestic benchmark indexes were standouts, but International and Emerging Market equities also delivered solidly positive numbers. US investors, especially, were cheered by the Federal Reserve’s decision, announced in late January, to suspend the program of scheduled ¼% increases in their Fed Funds rate that had through 2018.
Topics: Investments, mutual funds, Economics, stocks, markets, interest rates
The Fed Blinks
January 31, 2019
World equity prices have extended their January uptrend over the past two weeks. Most broad-based indexes have recovered more than 50% of the declines that ended on December 24, 2018. Progress on resolution of trade disputes with China and reduced anxiety over the course of short-term interest rates appear to have flipped investor sentiment 180° from late December.
Topics: Investments, mutual funds, Economics, stocks, markets, interest rates
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