Weekly Market Recap | May 23, 2022

Week in Review Equity Markets: The S&P continued its weekly losing streak, ending down for the seventh week in a row. This is the longest weekly losing streak since 2001, according to FactSet. The S&P finished the week down 3%. After spending part of the day Friday in bear market territory, a late day rally pared the losses and the…

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Weekly Market Recap | May 16, 2022

Week in Review Equity Markets: The S&P 500 nearly hit the formal definition of a bear market, defined as a 20% decline from the market peak. On Thursday, the S&P was down ~19.55% intraday from the peak on January 4. The markets recovered well on Friday following a rough start to the week. The S&P finished the week down 2.4%…

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Weekly Market Recap | May 9, 2022

Week in Review Equity Markets: The stock market volatility was certainly heightened this past week. On Wednesday, the Dow rallied 900 points, only to lose the gain on Thursday with a 1,000-point drop. Throughout the week, it was easy to get lost in the big swings, but the Dow and S&P ended the week nearly flat. Both were only down…

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Weekly Market Recap | May 2, 2022

Week in Review Equity Markets: After a strong rally on Thursday, the S&P took a sharp turn downward to end the week down 3.3%. The S&P is negative 13% year-to-date. The equity market has many headwinds to overcome, including tightening monetary policy, inflation, the conflict in Ukraine, and the more recent slowing economic and earnings growth. A little over half…

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Weekly Market Recap | April 25, 2022

Week in Review Equity Markets: The S&P 500 ended the week lower by 2.7%, and the NASDAQ continued to disappoint, down 3.8%. The equity markets continue to battle two major headwinds: Fed Policy and implications with interest rates, and the conflict in Ukraine. Tensions in Ukraine heated up after a slight de-escalation. Investors have concerns about the impact on already…

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Weekly Market Recap | April 18, 2022

Week in Review Equity Markets: All major indices ended the week negative. The NASDAQ was the worst performer, down 2.6% while the S&P was down 2.1%. Inflation and a less than stellar start to earnings season were the major contributors. Banks kicked off Q1 earnings with many beating earnings expectations. Many banks mentioned geopolitical concerns and discussed the rising risks…

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Weekly Market Recap | April 11, 2022

Week in Review Equity Markets: The S&P ended the week down just over 1% as investors’ concerns around aggressiveness in rate hikes and Fed balance sheet reduction has been renewed. Small caps and growth stocks lagged compared to peers. The NASDAQ finished the week in the red by almost 4%. Defensive sectors led the way this week with strong performance…

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Quarterly Insights | April 2022

Inflation, Geopolitics and Rising Rates Weigh on Markets in the First Quarter After a historically calm 2021, volatility returned in the first quarter of 2022. Inflation surged to 40-year highs, the Federal Reserve promised to raise interest rates faster than previously thought, and Russia surprised the world with a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, marking the first major military conflict…

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Weekly Market Recap | April 4, 2022

Week in Review Equity Markets: The S&P ended the first quarter down just under 5%, the first quarterly decline since the start of pandemic two years ago. On the heels of a ~10% run over the past few weeks, the S&P 500 fought back the final month of the quarter and ended March up 3.6%. Broadly speaking, financially healthy consumers…

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Market Update | March 30, 2022

I’d like to provide some color and context around the emerging topic of recession. Before we begin to dive too deeply, I think it’s worthwhile to compare the declines in the stock market this year relative to other historically large sell-offs in non-recessionary periods. As you can observe in this chart from JP Morgan, the low we’ve seen thus far…

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