Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. In early March, almost two-thirds of Americans who participated in a Nationwide Retirement Institute survey
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Markets were reassured by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)’s actions last week. The FOMC met on March 16 and did exactly what most people expected them
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Investor optimism is quite low. In just two weeks, the war in Ukraine has changed the status of 1.3 million people – approximately the number of people who
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The world is adapting to a changing reality. As the war in Ukraine intensified last week, financial markets grappled with uncertainty...
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Last week, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision ignited the biggest military conflict in Europe since World War II. The war is
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Investors’ appetite for risk diminished as the Russian threat to Ukraine intensified...
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Why did stock markets in the United States finish the week lower?
If this were Jeopardy, acceptable answers to that question might include...
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A rosy view through the rearview mirror.
To say that economists did not have great expectations for the January employment report might be understating their
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Last week, the January stock market decline was interrupted by a Friday afternoon rally.
“The S&P 500 rose 2.4 percent, its biggest one-day jump since June
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When is a barometer not a barometer?
It’s widely recognized that people do not make perfect financial decisions. In fact, many investors rely on mental
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Is the economy doing well, or not?
If you skimmed the headlines last week, you may have seen that retail sales – the purchases we make from stores in-person or
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Here’s a little story about a group called the Fed…
In the 1950s, then-Fed Chair William McChesney Martin described the Federal Reserve as “the chaperone who
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