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Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Oct. 19-25, 2025 Government remains shut, earnings keep markets motoring There doesn’t appear to be any end in sight for the government shutdown yet. Some people had hoped to see a softening of rigid positions and movement toward a deal for reopening the government after the “No Kings”…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Oct. 12-18, 2025 Trump softens on China After President Trump’s Oct. 1 announcement that we would begin imposing tariffs on Chinese imports and the subsequent ugly sell-off on Oct. 9, markets came back last week but not quite to the levels we saw prior to the renewed Chinese…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Oct. 5-11, 2025 The streak is snapped It was bound to happen sooner or later — the market’s winning streak was snapped last week. The downward move came amid fears of a reescalation of global trade tensions and rising concerns around the impacts of a prolonged government shutdown.…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Sept. 28 – Oct. 4, 2025 Government shuts down — what’s next? It seems there’s always a crisis somewhere these days. This year alone, we’ve endured the tariffs, the Big Beautiful Bill drama and multiple international flare-ups. Now we have the government shutdown, which started on Oct. 1.1…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Sept. 21-27, 2025 How high can we go? Markets have settled into a groove as we head into October and the fourth quarter. Volatility is under 16, one of the lowest levels this year.1 Markets are expecting two more 25-basis-point (0.25%) cuts by year-end after the Federal Reserve…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Sept. 14-20, 2025 The Fed finally moves! After the horrendous jobs revision last week of -911,000 (from March 2024 to March 2025) showed that basically the only jobs created last year were government or government-dependent (health care and education) or low-paying hospitality jobs, the Federal Reserve decided to…

Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Sept. 7-13, 2025 Call 9-1-1 … K Last week, the new leadership at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that jobs reported between March 2024 and March 2025 were way overstated. The U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs than previously thought in that time period, according to new…