Here we are on February 17 and the S&P 500 is almost exactly flat for the year (as of Friday) after falling a little over 1% last week. This doesn’t worry us. We’ve noted that February has a history of being a banana peel month and many other areas of the market have held up …
In the latest Take 5, hosts Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist, dig into why gold has been shining so brightly over the past three years and what that means for investors. From inflation protection to central bank buying, and the surprising …
The S&P 500 moved back to new highs last week and gained in the month of August during a president’s second term for the first time since 1950. That’s the good news. The bad news is we aren’t out of the woods yet, as September is historically the worst month of the year and the …
In the latest episode of Carson’s Take 5, hosts Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist, break down Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s comments from the Jackson Hole Symposium. While Powell cracked the door open to rate cuts, inflation remains sticky, an …
Chances are we’ve all felt a bit like Rachel on the hit show “Friends” when she looked at her first paycheck in bewilderment and said, “Who’s FICA? And why’s he taking all my money?”
The S&P 500 was down five days in a row heading into Friday of last week, although the losses were fairly minor with only one day down more than 0.5% (and that one barely). Then Jerome Powell opened the door for a rate cut in September and the bulls stepped up in a historic way. …
In the latest Take 5, with markets at all-time highs and inflation showing mixed signals, hosts Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist, dive into the Fed’s dual mandate, historical patterns of rate cuts, and what this could mean for investors. …
