Market Currents – Is the Federal Reserve Pushing Stocks Down?
Is the Fed Pushing Stocks down? Doug Terry, head of Alhambra Investment Research, answers the question.
Is the Fed Pushing Stocks down? Doug Terry, head of Alhambra Investment Research, answers the question.
Is the economy contracting? Alhambra's Steve Brennan poses that question to CEO Joe Calhoun.
Alhambra's CEO talks about last week’s disastrous market and the spike in interest rates, similar to what we saw in June, and the coming recession.
Where are interest rates and inflation going? Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun answers that question.
The S&P 500 fell 4.8% last week and is now down 19.4% year-to-date. Bonds were also down with yields up all across the yield curve. Gold was down 2.5% and the GSCI commodity index was down 2.3%. Rate-sensitive REITs were down nearly 6%. The list of what went up last week would be quicker: the dollar, platinum, silver, and some [...]
Monthly closing price for SPY on the 1st day for the month from 2 years prior to a market high to 3 years after that top. The data points are indexed to the starting point 24 months before the market top. I know, I know, it's different this time. It's always different. Different is not a relative measure of anything. [...]
Where are interest rates going? Doug Terry, Alhambra's Head of Investment Research, offers his thoughts.
Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun gives a refresher on nominal and real interest rates and what they're saying right now about the investor fear factor.
Nothing happened last week. Stocks and bonds and commodities continued to trade and move around in price but there was no news to which those movements could be attributed. The economic news was a trifle and what there was told us exactly nothing new about the economy. A report that wholesale inventories rose 0.6% cannot be turned into market moving [...]
Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun compares the similarities between today's bear market and past ones, plus last week's data on the economy, employment, and whether the new data points to recession.
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