Global stock markets are selling off hard after Russian military forces attacked a broad range of targets across Ukraine last night while Russian President Putin vowed to replace Ukraine’s government. What does it all mean for stocks and the economy?
It’s Super Bowl weekend, so we’re having a little fun sharing historical correlations between the winner of the game and the stock market. Happy Super Bowl weekend!
The Federal Reserve has made a decidedly hawkish pivot, with fed funds futures now expecting five rate hikes in 2022. Today we want to take a look at other years that had a lot of rate hikes.
2022 has been one of the worst starts to a year ever for stocks. In fact, it took the S&P 500 Index only 15 trading days to be down 10% for the year, one of the fastest ever.
Two things swirling that some investors think could hurt them down the road: The idea that higher yields and rate hikes are bad. However, it might not be so simple.
There are so many charts and tables that sum up how special 2021 was. Today, we take a look at some of those shared this past year.
December is widely known as one of the best months of the year for stocks, but most don’t realize that the majority of the gains happen in the second half of the month.
It looks like interest rate hikes are almost surely coming next year, but how high and how fast the Fed will hike remains a question.
Financial markets tend to be relatively quiet the day after Thanksgiving but this year was a notable exception. With the news that a new COVID-19 variant—Omicron—had been discovered and is spreading quickly, prices of risk assets fell and safe-haven assets rallied on Friday.
The calendar turned to October and volatility picked up in a big way, with three consecutive 1% moves for the S&P 500 Index to start the month. October gets a bad rap for being a bearish month (it isn’t), but it absolutely owns the title as the most volatile month.
