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October 2024
Market Insights: Fed Holds Off Rate Cuts, Earnings Slowdown Expected, and What’s Driving U.S. Equities Next
The market continues to scale back Fed rate cut expectations, with a 50 bps rate cut in November now off [...]
Volatility Ahead: October’s Impact on Markets and Cautionary Trends in IRAs and Tech Investments
Market breadth continues to improve. Goldman sees the S&P 500 dipping below current levels by the end of the year. [...]
Consumer Confidence, Corporate Earnings, and the Stock Market
The stock market and consumer confidence are vital indicators often used to assess the economy’s health. While they frequently move [...]
September 2024
Technical Breakout Suggests Bullish Bias, but Seasonality Hints at Caution
From a purely technical perspective, the market remains on a bullish buy signal and has not become grossly overbought. On [...]
Fed Rate Cut
In what some on Wall Street were billing as "the most important Fed decision in years," the Federal Reserve announced [...]
Inflation Rate Continues To Decline, But It’s A Cautionary Tale
The August Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in at 2.5% year-over-year last week. However, let’s put things into context before we declare [...]