Archive for February 2024

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Feb. 18-24, 2024 Nvidia gives markets a spark Markets were floating around early last week looking for direction. After being closed on Monday for Presidents Day, the mood was mostly sour with a negative bias. It seemed like we were looking for — and seeing — negativity everywhere.…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: February 11-17, 2024 Markets get a wakeup call After finishing at new records over Super Bowl weekend, the markets got a rude awakening when the Consumer Price Index (CPI) number for January came out last Tuesday. The markets shrugged off Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s warning after the…

Markets drop as inflation stays stuck above 3% Inflation rates appear to be stuck. That’s according to the January Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, which showed inflation increased by 3.1% year over year. Core prices (CPI excluding food and energy) rose 3.9% from January 2023. The increase wasn’t good news for markets, which have been…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Feb. 4-10, 2024 S&P 500 just keeps climbing How high will the S&P 500 go? The index topped 5,000 for the first time ever last week and has risen in 14 of the last 15 weeks, something it hasn’t done since 1972. It was a mostly calm and…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: January 28 – February 3, 2024 Powell pushes back — and markets get a dose of reality Remember the “Soup Nazi” from Seinfeld? Well, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell channeled his inner “Soup Nazi” with an emphatic “No rate cuts for you” last Wednesday. He essentially poured cold…