Speed Bumps Markets have been bumpy in recent days, which inevitably increases the chatter about risks of a deeper pullback. Investors are left to decide whether they believe this is a short-term shakeout in a bull market or something more ominous. The warning signs of late: S&P 500 -2.3% in the past week, gold -10%…Read more
If this were a normal week, we’d be talking about the Friday jobs report, the state of the economy, and the possibility that the Federal Reserve won’t lower interest rates again in December, especially in light of Chair Jerome Powell’s comments last week. But it’s not a normal week. The government has officially been shut…Read more
Something’s Gotta Give You’ve heard us talk about “relationship problems” in financial markets in the past. It’s the phrase we use to point out when variables that typically behave a certain way in relation to one another are behaving outside those norms. Often the abnormal behavior is not the “problem” per se, but that these…Read more
