Market & Economic Analysis

"Study the past if you would devine the future." - Confucius

Market Morsel: SLOOSing

The Senior Loan Officer Survey came out yesterday and I'm sure you've been waiting on pins and needles, as I have, to see the results. Okay, maybe you had better things to do. I sure hope so because it isn't exactly riveting. Here's the description from the Fed's website: Survey of up to eighty large domestic banks and twenty-four U.S. [...]

By |2024-08-06T14:55:32-04:00August 6th, 2024|Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy|

Weekly Market Pulse: Whiplash

What a difference a day makes! After a two-week correction of nearly 5%, the S&P 500 spent the first part of last week rallying in anticipation of a friendly Fed meeting. That Fed meeting Wednesday produced the expected, namely that a rate cut in September was likely. That pushed the S&P 500 up over 2% from the Fed meeting to [...]

Weekly Market Pulse: The Great Rotation

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Maybe Mark Twain but could be Josh Billings or someone else entirely The Great Rotation from large cap stocks to small cap and value stocks that started a few weeks ago, continued unabated last week. There's a lot [...]

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