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Weekly Market Commentary

Weekly Market Commentary – Week 63
3/11/2024

The week got off to a good start… In testimony before House and Senate committees, Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 62
3/4/2024

The bull market is alive and well.
“We know what investors are thinking,” reported Jacob Sonenshine of Barron’s.

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 61
2/27/2024

Enthusiasm for everything related to artificial intelligence (AI) drove a global stock market rally last week. Equity markets in the United States, Europe, and Japan hit all-time highs after a leading chipmaker reported better-than-expected earnings and an extraordinary surge in demand for its artificial intelligence-targeted processors, wrote Rita Nazareth of Bloomberg.

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 60
2/22/2024

The Federal Reserve (Fed) is the central bank of the United States. A longstanding bit of investment wisdom is: Don’t fight the Fed.

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Financial Briefs – February
2/13/2024

In February, our Financial Briefs Newsletter talks about focusing on the basics when it comes to your long-term investments. It provides several steps to help you choose the appropriate investments and make progress toward your long-term financial goals.

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 59

For decades, China was among the fastest-growing economies in the world. Its real gross domestic product, which is the value of all goods and services it produces, grew by about nine percent a year, on average, from 1978 through 2022, according to The World Bank.

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 57
1/30/2024

The United States economy is not performing the way anyone thought it would. Instead of tipping into a recession last year, it crushed expectations.

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 56
1/23/2024

Consumers are a force to be reckoned with – and we’re all consumers. We buy coats and tweezers, electricity and bread, screens and fishing poles.

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 55
1/16/2024

Last week, we received a lot of information about inflation. Some seemed to support the idea that inflation was sticky, meaning it wasn’t moving lower, while other data suggested inflation was in retreat.

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Financial Briefs – January
1/10/2024

In January, our Financial Briefs Newsletter discusses how to calculate financial ratios. It also provides 4 steps to help increase financial confidence and make progress toward your financial goals.

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 54
1/9/2024

Last week, investors appeared to suffer from a New Year’s hangover.

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Weekly Market Commentary – Week 53
1/2/2024

The story of 2023 has its roots in 2022, when the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index lost almost 19.5 percent amid rising inflation and aggressive Federal Reserve rate hikes.

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