Why did stock markets in the United States finish the week lower?
If this were Jeopardy, acceptable answers to that question might include...
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A rosy view through the rearview mirror.
To say that economists did not have great expectations for the January employment report might be understating their
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Last week, the January stock market decline was interrupted by a Friday afternoon rally.
“The S&P 500 rose 2.4 percent, its biggest one-day jump since June
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When is a barometer not a barometer?
It’s widely recognized that people do not make perfect financial decisions. In fact, many investors rely on mental
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Technology has made many processes easier, and Life Insurance is no exception. Gone are the days of lots of paper and confusing applications and forms
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Is the economy doing well, or not?
If you skimmed the headlines last week, you may have seen that retail sales – the purchases we make from stores in-person or
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Here’s a little story about a group called the Fed…
In the 1950s, then-Fed Chair William McChesney Martin described the Federal Reserve as “the chaperone who
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2021 was a fizzing mints-in-soda kind of year.
Everything seemed to shoot higher – from COVID-19 cases and vaccinations to economic growth and global stock
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Investors were feeling bullish.
Last week, the Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) Index closed at a record high for the 68th time this year. That’s the second
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Stock and bond markets diverged.
Last week, the Bank of England surprised markets with a rate hike, it's first in three years, and the Bank of Mexico raised
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Inflation met expectations.
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) last week, it showed that inflation was at levels last
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Investors look to the future.
Last week, employment and manufacturing data confirmed that the United States economy continued to strengthen in November, but
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