Weekly Commentaries
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 9/28/25 – 10/4/25
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…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 9/21/25 – 9/27/25
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…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 9/14/25 – 9/20/25
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…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 9/7/25 – 9/13/25
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…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 8/31/25 – 9/6/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2025 Jobs dry up The week started with an appeals court ruling that President Trump’s use of tariffs was unlawful (see more in the next section) and markets nosedived before recovering to start off a short trading week.1 Then we had news that Russian President…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 8/24/25 – 8/30/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Aug. 24-30, 2025 Summer may be unofficially ending — but new record highs are not Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted the Fed would be open to cutting rates, the markets are full of anticipation for a September rate cut.1 That helped drive us to new…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 8/17/25 – 8/23/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Aug. 17-23, 2025 Powell speaks and markets like what they hear Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium late last week was just what the U.S. market wanted to hear.1 The days leading up to his speech were somewhat depressing, as the…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 8/10/25 – 8/16/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Aug. 10-16, 2025 Markets rise on rate cut expectations A lot was riding on inflation data last week, with many of the usual “experts” calling for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to go up in response to tariffs. As usual, they were wrong, and the CPI stayed fairly…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 8/3/25 – 8/9/25
Weekly Market Commentary THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Aug. 3-9, 2025 Trump follows through With the Aug. 1 tariff deadline looming last week, some traders were banking on President Donald Trump extending the deadline once again. But he followed through for the most part, saying the deadline “will not be extended” and making the tariffs effective…
AE Wealth Management: Weekly Market Insights | 10/5/25 – 10/11/25
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.…