Russia Invades (Again)
On December 27, 1979, millions of Americans grabbed their morning coffee, walked outside to get the paper, opened it up and saw this headline: This was the beginning of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The world condemned it. There was conjecture that this was the...
Weekly Market Update – February 18, 2022
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...
Weekly Market Update – February 11, 2022
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...
Monthly Market Update — January 2022
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...