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Last Week in Review: Financial Markets Attempt to Stabilize After several weeks of higher rates and lower stocks, the financial markets stabilized a bit. Let's walk through what happened and look into the week ahead. When Words Don't Matter "I am more focused on if balance sheet reduction will affect liquidity in markets than impact […]

Last Week in Review: What's Happening in The Markets? The financial markets had a rough week, with stocks falling and rates spiking since Fed Chair Powell spoke in Jackson Hole. Let's walk through what happened and look into the week ahead. "While higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down […]

Last Week in Review: Rising Rates and New Home Sales August has not been kind to bonds and interest rates. Even though the Federal Reserve did not hold a meeting in August and is not slated to raise rates again until the end of September, long-term rates moved higher. Let's break down what happened and […]

Last Week in Review: We Are Going to Jackson For the past couple of weeks, interest rates remained within a range and haven't moved higher or lower, seemingly waiting for the next big market event. That event could be soon as Central Bankers around the globe and our Fed Chair Jerome Powell are set to […]

Last Week in Review: Inflation Cools, Market Drools This past week an important reading on consumer inflation showed that we might have seen inflation peak in July. In response, the financial markets celebrated with stocks shooting higher and long-term rates ticking lower from the previous week's highs. The highly anticipated Consumer Price Index (CPI) was […]

Last Week In Review: Fed Rate Hikes Push Home Loan Rates Lower Last week home loan rates continued to gradually improve since the Fed hiked rates by .75% in both June and July. The elevated chance of a recession and the Fed hiking rates into the slowing economy has pushed rates to the best levels […]

The Federal Reserve raised the Fed Funds Rate by .75% in a widely expected move while home loan rates continue to be well off the highest levels in June. Let's discuss what the Fed Chair Powell said in his press conference and what it means going forward. Boom The Fed raised the Fed Funds Rate […]

Last Week in Review: It's Fed Week The quiet before the storm. This past week, Fed officials were literally "quiet" with no speeches ahead of next week's Fed Meeting where a .75% rate hike is widely expected. Let's discuss what will be an important week ahead. Another Big Fed Rate Hike Coming For the first […]

Last Week in Review: Uncertainty Surrounding Inflation This past week we experienced a couple of soaring inflation numbers which has injected new uncertainty surrounding inflation peaks, Fed rate hikes, and the likelihood of a recession. Let’s discuss what happened and what to watch for in the coming weeks. Consumer Prices Soaring The headline Consumer Price […]

Last Week in Review: Recession, Retreat, Restrictive This past week was filled with “R” words, including the growing fears of a global recession as economic data around the globe points to a slowdown. Let’s discuss what happened and the big events to watch out for next week. Recession The dreaded “R” word has gained steam after […]