Weekly Commentaries
AE Wealth Management: Market Minute — Markets under pressure from jobs miss and oil spike
Markets under pressure from jobs miss and oil spike Two big stories drove market volatility on Friday, March 6. And they’re pulling the Federal Reserve in opposite directions. First, jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics February employment report came in far below expectation.1 Consensus was for +60,000 new jobs; the actual number was -92,000. Last…
AE Wealth Management: Market Minute — Markets and Middle East events
Markets react to strikes on Iran Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint military operation targeting key Iranian leadership. Iran’s supreme leader, who had been in power since the late 1980s, was among those killed. This is a significant geopolitical development, and it’s already having a short-term effect on markets. Some of…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 2/22/26 – 2/28/26
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Feb. 22-28, 2026 Markets had another rough week The fallout from the Supreme Court’s Feb. 13 decision about the president’s use of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and continued AI worries took a bite out of markets last Monday. And things didn’t get much…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 2/15/26 – 2/21/26
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Feb. 15-21, 2026 Markets shrug off low GDP report Normally, bad news is, well, bad. But a weak fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) number didn’t seem to faze markets. We haven’t closed above 7,000 on the S&P 500 in 2026, but have come tantalizingly close.1 We did close…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 2/8/26 – 2/14/26
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Feb. 8-14, 2026 Markets take another step back as ‘consolidation’ sets in The markets continued their wild gyrations last week, hitting records one day and giving up all year-to-date gains the next. If you look at the S&P 500’s performance so far this year, it’s an up-and-down, peak-to-valley…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 2/1/26 – 2/7/26
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Feb. 1-7, 2026 The wild trading continues We started the week with a partial government shutdown, which was quickly resolved.1 However, funding for the Department of Homeland Security remains a point of friction and will pop up again when temporary funding runs out on Friday, Feb. 13.2 Then…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 1/25/26 – 1/31/26
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Jan. 25-31, 2026 Trump taps Warsh for Fed chair January came to an end last week — and we can’t say the final week of the first month was uneventful. To no one’s surprise, the Federal Reserve didn’t cut rates for the fourth consecutive time at its first…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 1/18/26 – 1/24/26
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Jan. 18-24, 2026 Markets go for wild ride after Greenland dust-up We were greeted with an ugly little sell-off on Tuesday, and the markets had a horrible day to start the holiday-shortened week.1 The Dow closed down 870 points (-1.80%), the S&P 500 lost 143 points (-2.1%) and…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 1/11/26 – 1/17/26
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Jan. 11-17, 2026 Markets have an up-and-down week We set records on Monday for all three major U.S. indices, but we have yet to hit 7,000 on the S&P 500 and 50,000 on the Dow.1,2 News broke over the weekend that the Justice Department was launching an investigation…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 3/1/26 – 3/7/26
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: March 1-7, 2026 Iran conflict, oil prices send stocks lower and bond yields higher We focus on financial data or earnings most of the time, and most of the time the markets ebb and flow whichever way the data dictates. But when you have a geopolitical shock, all…