Weekly Commentaries
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 6/22/25 – 6/28/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: June 22-28, 2025 U.S. bombs Iran’s nuclear facilities If someone said we would see oil prices drop $10 per barrel and the S&P 500 hit a new high in the week after the U.S. bombed Iran’s nuclear production facilities, what would you say?1,2 Well, it did happen. Almost…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 6/15/25 – 6/21/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: June 15-21, 2025 All eyes on the Middle East Markets were focused on the conflict between Israel and Iran all last week, with the China trade deal, the Federal Reserve meeting and the G7 gathering all taking a backseat. Last week’s Israeli strikes against Iran were surgical, with…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 6/8/25 – 6/14/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: June 8-14, 2025 Israel takes action against Iran Last week ended with Israel preemptively attacking Iran and its nuclear weapons capabilities. Iran was in talks over its nuclear ambitions, but the talks were viewed as going nowhere. Instead, Iran was trying to enrich as much weapons-grade uranium as…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 6/1/25 – 6/7/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: June 1-7, 2025 Give us your best offer President Trump gave our trade adversaries a Wednesday deadline to step up with their best offer or ideas as to how they will trade with us, the same day a 50% tariff went into effect on aluminum and steel.1,2 Markets…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 5/25/25 – 5/31/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: May 25-31, 2025 Tariffs delayed are tariffs denied Markets opened the week after the Memorial Day holiday with a bang as President Trump pushed the implementation date for tariffs on the European Union back to July 9.1 Then markets began to trade off just as quickly until the…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 5/18/25 – 5/24/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: May 18-24, 2025 Market focuses on reconciliation bill For the first time in some time, markets weren’t focused on tariffs last week — at least until Friday. Most of the week was consumed with discussions of the tax package, which made its way through the House and is…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 5/11/25 – 5/17/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: May 11-17, 2025 Market wipes out 2025 losses And just like that, the market is right back to where it was at the start of the year. All it took was the news of a tariff suspension for China for 90 days and that a broader deal will…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 5/4/25 – 5/10/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: May 4-10, 2025 Fed says we can afford to wait The Federal Reserve’s May meeting concluded last Wednesday but brought us no clarity about what to expect for the future direction of interest rates. What we got, instead, was one big fat “we’ll see” and unchanged rates.1 The…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 4/27/25 – 5/3/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: April 27 – May 3, 2025 Halfway to recession? After a lot of handwringing and hypothesizing, we finally got the advance reading of first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP).1 At one point a few weeks ago, the Atlanta Fed was predicting a -2.5% reading — a stunning reversal from…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 6/29/25 – 7/5/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: June 29-July 5, 2025 “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law Now that President Donald Trump has signed the sweeping reconciliation bill into law, the markets can take that potential unknown off the table and adapt to a new landscape.1 This does not mean the bill is perfect, that…