Quick Takes Equities continued to struggle amid elevated geopolitical risks and expectations for tighter monetary policies as inflation pressures persist ahead of next month’s Fed meeting. Virtually all major global equity indices were down -1% or more, deepening the...
Quick Takes Stocks continue their choppy trading, getting whipsawed in the past week by a hotter-than-expected consumer inflation report, surprisingly hawkish comments from St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s...
Market Performance Summary There just isn’t any way to sugarcoat it, January was a rough month for investors in all asset classes. After a year of solid gains across most major equity indices in 2021, January was a decidedly “risk-off” month in which pretty much...
Quick Takes Major U.S. stock market indices had their best week of the year despite sharp losses on Thursday. For the week, the S&P 500 was +1.6% higher, the Nasdaq rose +2.4%, the Dow gained +1.1%, and the small cap Russell 2000 advanced +1.7%. Stocks had been...
Quick Takes Major U.S. stock market indices narrowly averted another negative week with a dramatic late afternoon surge on Friday. The S&P 500 gained +2.4% on Friday to end a three-week losing streak with a +0.8% weekly advance. It was a wild, roller-coaster ride...
Quick Takes The only good news for stocks over the past week was that the market was only open for four days. The S&P 500 fell about -1% or more every day of the week on its way to a weekly loss of -5.7%, its worst one-week performance since March 20, 2020. Tech...
