Posts Tagged ‘Volatility’
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 6/5/22 – 6/11/22
View PDF Version THE WEEK IN REVIEW: June 5 – June 11 Inflation gets worse The Consumer Price Index (CPI) climbed back to 8.6% after dipping to 8.3% in May, setting a new 40-year high. (The previous recent high was 8.5% in March.) So much for peaking inflation; it seems we’re heading in the wrong…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Market Minute Blog | 6/13/22
Download printable version here Inflation soars, markets drop What a way to start the week. The Dow dropped 725 points in the first four hours of trading on Monday morning, continuing the slide that started on Friday after the May Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in at a sizzling 8.6% annualized rate. Market watchers and…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 5/29/22 – 6/4/22
View PDF Version Strong jobs report leaves Fed with no reason to pause its plans When strong jobs growth is bad for markets There are plenty of open jobs — but job growth is slowing. Last Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) situation showed that job growth is still there. We added 390,000 new jobs…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 5/15/22 – 5/21/22
View PDF Version Markets drop for the 8th consecutive week Entering the lair o’ the bear Although earnings season is ending, there were some pretty prominent firms reporting last week that concerned the markets. Home Depot posted some solid earnings, leading to the only decent day last week. But the Home Depot report was bookended…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Market Minute Blog | 5/19/22
Download printable version here Markets knocked out by one-two punch from retailers and Fed It’s been another week of “up one day and down the next” for U.S. markets. In a major about-face following a 437-point rally on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,160 points on Wednesday in its worst trading day in…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 5/8/22 – 5/14/22
View PDF Version Inflation remains stubbornly high while markets sink No real relief from inflation There was a lot of anticipation that last week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) readings for April would yield some encouragement on the inflation front. Although the CPI deviated slightly downward from March’s 8.5% reading, it’s…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Market Minute Blog | 5/5/22
Markets jump one day – and plummet the next On Wednesday, May 4, the Federal Reserve raised rates by 50 basis points (.50%), its biggest hike in 22 years. The Fed had raised rates for the first time since 2018 at its March meeting, moving the Fed funds rate from 0.0 to 0.25%. The latest…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 4/17-4/23/22
VIEW PDF VERSION Chaotic week for markets Q1 2022 GDP and where this economy is headed After growing by 5.5% last year, some analysts predict a major economic downturn. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.9% in the last quarter of 2021, and now some expectations are calling for growth to slip to 1.5% in…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 4/10-4/16/22
VIEW PDF VERSION Markets struggle as inflation continues its upward climb Inflation is not going anywhere soon Despite the shorter trading week thanks to the Good Friday holiday, the markets managed to pack five days of pain into four. All three major indices lost ground: the Dow dropped 0.78%, the S&P 500 2.13% and the…
Read MoreAE Wealth Management: Stereotypical Investor Mistakes | Blog
Beware of Stereotypical Investor Mistakes The Wealth Report by AE Wealth Management Download PDF Version Here Learn to recognize common investor blunders to avoid them in the future. Overview The first quarter of 2022 has brought more turbulence to the financial markets. On the heels of the omicron outbreak, inflation continued to surge and Russia…
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