Weekly Market Commentary – 5/10/2021
Weekly Market Commentary May 10, 2021 The Markets Like a gender reveal gone wrong, last week’s employment report delivered an unexpected surprise. Economists estimated 975,000 new jobs would be created in April. The United States Bureau of…
Weekly Market Commentary 5/3/2021
Weekly Market Commentary May 3, 2021 The Markets It’s Spring and economic recovery is in the air. Last week, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported the U.S. economy grew at a 6.4 percent annualized rate for the…
Weekly Market Commentary 4/26/2021
Weekly Market Commentary April 26, 2021 The Markets It wasn’t just the price of pork chops. Last week, as investors weighed the news, strong corporate earnings were offset by higher grocery prices and rising numbers of global…
Weekly Market Commentary 4/19/2021
Weekly Market Commentary April 19, 2021 The Markets Where are Treasury bonds going? The direction of bond yields is influenced by investors’ expectations for economic growth, among other factors. When economic growth is expected to weaken, bond…
Weekly Market Commentary 4/12/2021
Weekly Market Commentary April 12, 2021 The Markets Investors didn’t stumble over inflation last week. Why not? Inflation – rising prices of goods and services – can be measured in a variety of ways. For example, the…