Market & Economic Analysis

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Weekly Market Pulse: What? I Can’t Hear You For All The Noise!

I can calculate the movements of the heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. - Sir Isaac Newton, upon losing a fortune on South Sea Company stock Newton's Laws of Motion An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an [...]

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 [...]

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